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shaped spot, on the apex of the 1st abdominal segment, with a transverse line, not 

 reaching to the outer edge, and with a yellow spot between the latter and the basal 

 part, I he sides at the base and a longer line clown the centre, reaching close to the 

 middle of the segment, a line down the middle of the 2nd segment, with a broader trans- 

 verse one shortly before the middle, the base of the 3rd segment broadly, the mark 

 narrowed laterally; from its centre a line runs down to the apex and is continued down 

 the centre of the following segments, a line, more than twice longer than wide, and 

 roundly narrowed towards the apex, on the base of the 2nd ventral segment and trans- 

 verse bands on the base of the 3rd and 4th segments; the 2nd ventral segment and 

 the lower edge of the 2nd above, red, the red colour on the latter dilated at the apex. 

 Wings hyaline, the fore margin to the base of the stigma fulvous; the stigma fulvous, the 

 nervures black. 5. 



Length 23 mm. 



Jleni low lands, Ngare na nyuki, October. 



Clypeus not much longer than its greatest width, the apical half from the eyes 

 roundly narrowed, the apex transverse. Head and thorax covered with a silvery pile, 

 which is longer on the metanotum than elsewhere. The yellow mark on the front is 

 roundly dilated above and curved; the top is roundly curved and narrowed in the centre. 

 Vertex and thorax closely, distinctly punctured; the furrow on the metanotum is narrow 

 and is not dilated towards the apex; shallow. Coxae, trochanters and femora bright red, 

 the tibia? and tarsi yellow, the hinder tarsi tinged with rufous. 



Belongs to the group of E. caffra. It may be known from the latter by the red 

 abdominal petiole. In the latter respect it agrees with E. lepelcteri SAUSS. from Senegal ; 

 the latter has two spines on the abdominal petiole which are absent in the present spe- 

 cies, lepeleteri. wanting also the 2 lines bordering the outer edge of the mesonotum ; there 

 are no black lines on the base of the 3rd and 4th abdominal segments and the red 

 marks on the base of the mesonotum are larger and much more conspicuous. 



Eumcncs maxillosa DE GEEE. 



Vcspa HHurillosa DE GEER, Mem. Hist. Ins. Ill, 577, PI. XXIX, fig. 1 and 2; 

 Sphex tinctor CHRIST, Naturg. d. Ins. 1791, 311, PL XXXI, f. 1. Eumenes Savignyi 

 GUKR., Icon. Regn. anim. VII, 44 b, PI. XXII, f. 4. Eumenes tinctor SAUSS., Etud. Fam. 

 Vesp. I, 49; SMITH, Cat. Hym. Ins. V, 27. MAGRETTI, Ann. d. Mus. Civico di Stor. Nat. 

 di Genova I (2), 609. GERST. Hym. v. D. DECKEN'S Reise, 321; ANDRE, Spec. Hym. II, 

 630. Eumenes maxillosus SAUSS., Grandid. Hist. Madg. XX, pt. 1 (1891), p. 153; 

 BINGHAM, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), X, 1902, 219; KOHL, Denksch. d. Math.-Naturwiss. 

 der K. K. Akad. d. Wissen. d. Wien, 1906, 56, 80; v. SCHULTHESS-RECHBERG, VOELTZKOW, 

 Reise in Ostafrika, II, 71; TULLGREN, Arkiv for Zoologi, Stockholm, I, 445; KOHL, 

 STADELMANN, D. Hym. Ost-Afrikas, 28. 



Kilimandjaro: A common species, distributed from Egypt to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, being found also in Tropical West Africa and Madagascar. 



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