Agenia amalthea

Smith, F., 1859, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3, pp. 132-158 : 155

6, Agenia amalthea .

A. nigra, pilis tenuibus cinereis sericeis vestita; antennis antice pedibusque anticis et intermediis antice ferrugineis; abdomine petiolato; alis hyalinis bifasciatis.

Female, Length 6 lines. Black; the face densely covered with silvery pile; the antennae in front, the anterior margin of the clypeus and the tips of the mandibles ferruginous; palpi elongate and pale rufotestaceous. Thorax: the posterior margin of the prothorax narrowly, the tegulae, the anterior and intermediate femora in front, the posterior pair towards their apex beneath, the anterior tibiae and tarsi, the intermediate and posterior tibiae more or leas beneath, and their tarsi, ferruginous; the tarsi sometimes dusky above; the wings hyaline, a narrow fuscous fascia at the apex of the externo-medial cell, and a broad one crossing at, and being the width of, the second and third submarginal cells; tips of the wings milky-white; the metathorax rounded posteriorly, transversely finely rugose and densely covered with short silvery-white pubescence at the sides and apex. Abdomen petiolated, smooth and shining, with the apex and the margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous.

Hab, Aru.