HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 91 



Pompilus curiniscutis sp. nov. 



Niger, facie, clypeo, orbitis oculorum, linea pronoti, scutello 

 post-scutelloque flavis; pedibus rufo-fulvis; coxis, trochanteribus, 

 femoribus apiceque tibiarum late nigris ; alis Havo-hyalinis, apice 

 violaceis. 5 



Long : 13-14 mm. 



Hab. Borneo (Shelford). 



Antennae black ; the scape yellowish beneath. Head black, 

 sharpened, sparsely pilose ; the face, clypeus, the inner orbits 

 broad below, narrowed above and the outer more narrowly and 

 uniformly, bright orange- yellow. The hinder ocelli are sepa- 

 rated from each other by a slightly less distance than they are 

 from" the eyes, which converge slightly below. Mandibles 

 orange-yellow, black at the apex. On the thorax there is a 

 broad, interrupted line on the pronotum not extending to the 

 tegulae ; a mark, wider than long, and with the sides at the base 

 slightly projecting, on the hinder part of the mesonotum, a large 

 mark on the scutellum roundly narrowed towards the base, 

 where there is in the middle, a rounded point ; at its apex and 

 touching it, is a transverse line, which does not extend to its outer 

 edge ; and the top of the scutellum, all orange-yellow. The 

 scutellum is broadly rounded above; the post scutellum is 

 slightly higher than it ; it is more distinctly raised and separated ; 

 its top is keeled ; the sides have an oblique slope. The median 

 segment is opaque, and thickly covered with pale pubescence ; 

 it is, except in the middle at the apex, closely irregularly 

 reticulated. Legs rufo-fulvous, the coxae, trochanters, the femora 

 to near the apex and the apical third of the hinder tMae, black. 

 Wings, yellowish-hyaline; the apex of both wings violaceous, 

 the first cubital cellule at the top is fully one-fourth longer 

 than the second ; the third transverse cubital nervure in the 

 hind wings is interstitial. 



The median segment has a gradually rounded slope ; the 

 inner spur on the hinder tibiae is not half the length of the 

 metatarsus ; the basal segment of the abdomen is narrow at the 

 base, becoming gradually wider towards the apex ; the pronotum 

 is rather short. The transverse median nervure is received in 

 front of the transverse basal. 



