eeply impressed lines in front, running inwards, and uniting about the
middle, and with two or three deep transverse channels before their
junction; the lateral margins of the mesothorax deeply impressed; the
metathorax ruggedly sculptured; the posterior coxae and femora closely
punctured; wings black with a hyaline spot in the first submarginal
cell. Abdomen very smooth and shining, with a deeply impressed line on
each side of the basal segment.

_Hab._ Celebes.

2. AGATHIS MODESTA. _A._ rufescenti-flava; antennis, vertice, tibiis
posticis apice, tarsisque nigris; alis fusco maculatis.

_Female._ Length 4 lines. Reddish-yellow: the antennae and vertex, black.
The mesothorax with two deeply impressed longitudinal oblique lines, and
two parallel ones between them; the metathorax reticulated; wings
hyaline, with a dark fuscous stain crossing the anterior pair at the
base of the first submarginal cell, these hyaline to the middle of the
stigma, beyond which they are fuscous; a subhyaline spot at the apex of
the marginal cell, and another beneath it at the inferior margin of the
wing; the posterior tarsi dusky, and the tips of the tibiae black.

_Hab._ Celebes.

3. AGATHIS NITIDA. _A._ nigra, nitida; facie, pectore, pedibus anticis
et intermediis, plaga infra alas, scutelloque pallide ferrugineis.

Length 4 lines. Black and shining; the face, mandibles, head beneath,
legs, pectus, sides of the thorax beneath the wings, the scutellum and
the basal half of the abdomen beneath, pale ferruginous; the mesothorax
with two longitudinal oblique lines on the disk, which have two parallel
ones between them; the metathorax coarsely rugose; the wings dark brown,
with the base of the stigma pale, and a hyaline spot beneath it. Abdomen
very smooth and shining, with the apical margins of the segments
narrowly rufo-piceous; the posterior legs incrassate and dark
rufo-piceous.

Fam. CHRYSIDIDAE.

Genus HEDYCHRUM, _Latr._

1. HEDYCHRUM FLAMMULATUM. _H._ viridi-purpureo lavatum; capite
thoraceque fortiter, abdomine delicatule, punctatis; alis fuscis basi
hyalinis.

Length 3 lines. Bright green; the vertex, two oblique stripes on the
prothorax, meeting in the centre of its anterior margin, a broad
longitudinal stripe on the disk of the mesothorax, and the sides of the
scutellum and postscutellum deep purple. Abdomen: the middle of the
basal segment, the second and third segments at their base, broadly
purple; the apical margin o