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region is thickly covered with pale fulvous pubescence. Median 

 segment smooth, shining and bare ; its sides thickly covered with 

 long pale fulvous hair ; the basal depression is not clearly bor- 

 dered behind and bears narrow longitudinal keels. Legs black, 

 thickly covered with long pale fulvous hair ; the hinder tibia* 

 become gradually thickened towards the apex ; the metatarsus 

 is thickened. Wings hyaline ; the costa and stigma testaceous, 

 the nervures paler; the second cubital cellule is narrow; the 

 second transverse cubital nervure is faint; the first transverse 

 cubital nervure is interstitial. Abdomen rufous ; the apical three 

 segments (the basal two broadly) marked with black in the 

 centre ; the apices of the second, third and fourth are banded 

 with cream-white. 



Coelioxys eriucephala, sp. nov. 



Black, the head and thorax rugosely punctured ; the scutel- 

 lum coarsely reticulated, its sides at the apex projecting into 

 sharp spines ; the basal area of the median segment aciculated, the 

 rest of the segment closely punctured, the upper half deeply 

 furrowed in the middle ; wings hyaline, the apex from the base 

 of the radial cellule fuscous-violaceous. 9 • 



Long : 1 1 mm. 



Hab. Kuching, Sarawak. 



Head rugosely punctured, the clypeus more closely and 

 less strongly than the rest ; the cheeks, the fnce and apex of 

 the clypeus covered with pale pubescence ; the outer orbits and 

 occiput are thickly covered with white pubescence ; the vertex 

 and front are sparsely haired. Mesonotum closely rugosely 

 punctured ; the scutellum is coarsely reticulated-punctured ; the 

 apex is rounded, with the sides projecting into teeth, which are 

 twice longer than broad ; its apex projects over the post-scutel- 

 lum. The basal area of the median segment is coarsely aciculat- 

 ed ; the rest is closely punctured and thickly covered with 

 white pubescence. MesopleursB closely rugosely punctured and 

 covered with white pubescence ; the sides and apex are acicula- 

 ted. The second transverse cubital nervure has the lower half 

 oblique; the upper distinctly oblique and straight. Le^rs 

 thickly covered with woolly hair : the b.isal joint of the hinder 

 tarsi is thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. The five 



