140 HYMEN0PTE11A FROM SARAWAK. 



tooth is long and does not taper much towards the apex, which 

 is rounded ; the subapical tooth is rounded at the apex, does not 

 project much and is not defined behind. Palpi long, dark tes- 

 taceous and thickly covered with pale yellowish hair. Thorax 

 slightly, but distinctly, narrower than the head ; rounded at the 

 base, almost transverse at the apex ; it is fully twice longer than 

 wide ; its sides above irregular, not contracted ; above it is coarse- 

 ly rugosley punctured and sparsely covered with longish black 

 hair ; the pleura; are smooth and shining ; there is a stout curv- 

 ed keel in the centre of the propleune. Above the base of the 

 middle coxae is a stout keel, which extends upwards to the 

 middle : the lower edge is less distinctly keeled. Legs black, 

 covered sparsely with long white hair; the tibial spines are black 

 and stout; the tarsal bright rufous ; the calcaria pale. Abdomen 

 black ; the basal segment short, becoming gradually wider 

 towards the apex, above covered with long pale hair; the basal 

 segment is thickly covered with shorter black hair; there are two 

 irregular oval marks of silvery pubescence on the base of the 

 second segment, which is thickly covered with black hair, long at 

 the base, shorter on the remainder; the third segment is covered 

 with silvery pubescence ; the basal two-thirds of the pygidium is 

 irregularly longitudinally striated ; the apical third smooth ; the 

 sides are thickly covered with long pale hair. The keel on the 

 basal ventral segment does not reach to the middle of the 

 segment, is stout, is rounded at the base, its apex with a vertical 

 slope ; near it the sides bear some large round punctures ; 

 above the middle is a complete curved keel with a shorter one 

 below on the apical half. The second and following segments 

 are thickly fringed with silvery pubescence, the epipygium is 

 punctured ; the apex is smooth and is roundly incised in the 

 middle. 



