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which is closely, but not strongly, punctured, and is shining in 

 the middle. Legs black, and thickly covered with black hair ; 

 the calcaria black. The wings, to the stigma, smoky-fuscous ; 

 the rest milky- hyaline ; the stigma and nervures black; the first 

 transverse cubital nervure is straight and has an abrupt oblique 

 slope ; the second is two-angled, the upper is the longer and is 

 more oblique ; both the recurrent nervures are received distinctly 

 beyond the transverse cubitals. Abdomen black ; closely but 

 not strongly, punctured above and covered, but not densely, 

 with short black hair ; the apical segment is roundly incised ; the 

 ventral scopa is fulvous. 



Protomithidium rvfomacnlatum, sp. nov. 



Black ; the clypeus and the antennae rufo-testaceous ; the 

 top of the head and the mesonotum with the scutellum thickly 

 covered with rufo-fulvous pubescence ; the scopa rufo- fulvous ; 

 the apical-dorsal segment covered with whitish pubescence ; the 

 wings dark smoky-fuscous to the base of the stigma, lacteous 

 beyond it. 9 • 



Long : 8 mm. 



Hab. Kuching, Sarawak. 



Antennae shining, base rufous, the second joint black. 

 Head closely, rugosely punctured ; above thickly covered with 

 short rufous pubescence ; the face and clypeus with soft, paler 

 hair. The apex of the clypeus on the lower side is flat, smooth 

 and shining. Mandibles rufo-testaceous, the lower edge of the 

 apex black ; it is sparsely punctured ; its apical tooth is large, 

 is sharply pointed and clearly separated from the subapical, 

 which is short, does not project and is not defined behind. 

 Mesonotum closely, uniformly and somewhat strongly punc- 

 tured ; there is an impressed line down its centre. The scutellum 

 is flat, is not raised above the level of the mesonotum, and its 

 apex projects largely over the median segment ; it is more 

 closely punctured than the mesonotum ; its sides and apex are 

 broadly rufous and the apex has a shallow, rounded incision in 

 the middle. The median segment has a vertical slope, is closely 

 punctured and covered with a short pubescence. Mesopleurse 

 closely punctured like the mesonotum ; the base of which is 

 smooth, projecting. Legs black ; the hair black ; the greater part 



