134 I1YMEN0PTEHA FROM SARAWAK, 



rufous in tint; on the apex of the front tibiae in the middle is a 

 a stout, slightly curved spine, which becomes narrowed towards? 

 the apex ; on the apex, at the base, in front of this, is a shorter 

 tooth ; the apical claws are larger and stouter than usual and 

 rufous in colour : the calcaria are obliquely narrowed at the apex. 



Spheguu-;. 

 Sj)/t?-r malayanus, sp. nov. 



Black ; the second abdominal segment rufous at the base ■ 

 the head and thorax densely covered with golden pile and thickly 

 with long pale pubescence: wings clearly hyaline, the stigma and 

 nervures deep black; the apex with a deep black cloud between 

 the end of the radial nervure and the lower end of the third 

 transverse cubital. 5 . 



Long: 14 mm. 



Ilab. Borneo. 



The eyes distinctly converge below • the inner orbits from near 

 the ocelli and the face and clypeus are densely covered with a golden 

 pile and the entire head is thickly covered with long pale hair : 

 it is impunctate ; the ocelli are in a curve, are large and prominent: 

 below them is a short, distinct keel w T hich becomes sharply point- 

 ed at the apex ; the apex of the clypeus is broadly rounded ; in 

 its centre it is distinctly depressed or furrowed ; the middle is 

 keeled. The labrum is slightly keeled in the middle. Mandibles 

 black, rufous towards the apex : they are bidentate : the upper 

 tooth is long, is clearly separated from the lower, which does 

 not project, and is straight or slightly oblique at the apex ; the 

 apical tooth projects on the upper side, slightly, but distinctly ; this 

 projecting part is about three times longer than broad. The gold- 

 en pile on the thorax is dense ; the long pale hair is dense, long 

 and pale ; on the median segment it is not quite so thick, but is. 

 if anything, longer. The meson jtum is alutaceous : the meso- 

 pleurie closely and distinctly punctured ; the scutellum is sparsely 

 punctured in the middle, more closely and distinctly on the sides. 

 Neither it. nor the post-scutellum, is furrowed in the centre: the 

 latter is thickly covered with golden pubescence. The median 

 segment is closely, finely, distinctly and irregularly reticulated : 

 the apical slope is largely hollowed. Leg's black, pruinose : 



