380 



A NATUIiALIST'S WANDEItlNGS 



20, PjI^AOIA MOLTBDJEKAl.ie, Hlib, 



Pinari'a mnh(hl(FtiaU», Hiibuer Saimnl. cxot. Schmett.t Zutr. p. 13, 

 n. 218, figs. 435, M. 

 Larat 



Preyioiifily kcown from Java and Borneo. 



2L HyMI:^^A PAeciALis, Cram. 



Phalama- Ptjralis faschilis, Cramer, Pap. Exot iv, p!. 398. 0 (1782). 

 Larat> 



A fragment of tliis wide-rangusg species was obtained. 



BoTmm^, 



22. BoTTfl, sp. 



A brokiin CKample of a sijeeies allied to gastralis, "vhkh. it resembleB 

 in size and coloration; the pattern, however, agrees better with JB. 

 rositialis. 



Eitalwl, Larat, 



The s|icciinen is not sufficiently perfect to name ; it is cbiefly interest- 

 ing for its resemblance to New- World types. 



The only other Lepiiioptcron is mnecogniBable, as previously moa- 

 tioneti; the vtsining of tho wings reminas one of some Micro-Lepi- 

 dopteron. 



yn,— Ofi the CW?cc/;"f.»K/HYMKSor'TERA fuifl DiTTEiiA' /r'/W the Tinior^atft 

 Islands^ formed by Mb, H. 0. FoBDEs. By W. F. KiRBY, Assi stout in 

 the Zoological Deiiartment, Britfj^h Museum. 



(Prom tlie Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Slay, 1883, p. 313 et seqq.) 

 The small collection before me, coneisting of only f5ve spedea of 

 Bymenoptera (all uew) and three of Dipt-era, was formeti in two of the 

 enmUer islands of the 'rimor^laut group, vi;?. Larat and Maru, I wOl now 

 proceed to deBcril>e the Hymcnoptem and to notice the Diptera, merely 

 remarking that they eskibit strong affinities to those of the surmundiag 

 groups of islands, as would naturally lie anticipated beforehand. The 

 sjiecjmenB ore omubtired; and 1 have noted these numbers throughout. 



HYMENOFTEBA ACTJLEATA. 



Cb0C5isa c^inTLEiFiioNB, Kirby,, loe. cit. 

 Long. corp. 5 lin. 



Fentuk, Black, face and orbits (very broadly above) blue; prothorax 

 with a short striijo behind on cyittn sidti above, and a very large spot on 

 the sides; mesothorax with bcvcu blue sputs— two smn!l ones on the front 

 border, adjoining thme on the protlionix, a longitiiidinal one betweeii, 

 then two slightly oval ones near the middle, mvl a large irregular sjiot 

 Whind on each side, projecting a branch forward within the verj' large 

 black tegulro ; scuttelluni black, Btrongly escavated in the middle: 

 abdomen with the tir^t feogment blue, a narrow longitudinal line, tlie 

 greater jiart of the hind borderland a long t-ransyerse spot contiguous to 



