Methoca thoracica, Latreille

Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6, pp. 36-48 : 50-51

1. Methoca thoracica .

M. rufo-ferruginea; capite abdominisque fasciis tribus nigris.

Female. Length 4 lines. Rufo-ferruginous; the head black, the abdomen with three black fasciae, very smooth and shining; the mandibles, clypeus, and antennae ferruginous. (Pl. I. fig. 5. [[ queen ]].) Hab. Celebes (Tondano).

This very beautiful insect may probably be a very large, highly coloured form of if. insularis , described in a previous paper; but not having any intermediate in size, I have thought it advisable to describe it as a distinct species.