HYMENOPTERA FROM SARAWAK. 131 



Head black, the apex of the clypeus pale testaceous ; the 

 front, face and clypeus covered thickly with pale pubescence ; 

 the front has a narrow furrow down the centre ; the labrum is 

 testaceous : mandibles pale rufous, blackish towards the apex ; 

 the occiput is fringed with long; fusco-rufous hair. The meso- 

 notum is bordered all round by a distinct belt of fulvous pubes- 

 cence ; there is a broader belt on the sides and apex of the 

 scutellum ; the post-scutellum is covered with short fulvous 

 pubescence. Median segment closely, uniformly and distinctly 

 punctured. Pleurae covered with fulvous pile. Wings clear 

 hyaline ; the stigma pale, the nervures of a deeper testaceous 

 colour ; the two transverse cubital nervures are faintly indicated, 

 the first more distinctly than the second. Antennae black, the base, 

 of the scape broadly testaceous. Abdomen smooth and shining ; 

 rufo-testaceous ; the second, third and fourth segments deep black. 



Trigona lacteifasciata, sp. nov. 



Dark luteous, the head, except the centre of the clypeus, 

 the flagellum of the antennas and the tibia? and tarsi, black: 

 wings hyaline, a milky cloud at the end of the stigma; the 

 stigma and nervures luteous ; there are two transverse cubital 

 nervures, which are straight, oblique and approach close to each 

 ther near the top. Q . 



Long : 8-9 mm. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Antenna? black: the basal two -thirds of the scape rufous. 

 Head black, the clypeus broadly, in the centre rufous; the 

 front, face and clypeus thickly covered with a pale down ; the 

 hinder part of the occiput thickly covered with stiff blackish 

 hair. Mandibles black. Thorax dark rufous, thickly covered 

 on the mesonotum and scutellum with short, stiff, dark fulvous 

 hair, which is thickest and longest on the base of the mesonotum. 

 Median segment smooth and shining and is bare in the middle. 

 The coxa 3 , trochanters and femora are coloured like the thorax: 

 the tibia? and tarsi black, except the apical joint of the tarsi ; 

 and they -are covered with black hair. The basal two joints of 

 the tarsi are mahogany coloured; the others are darker in tint; 

 the ventral segments are similarly coloured and are sparsely 

 covered with lon^ish fuscous hair. 



