CAMERON, VESPlnAK. 1711 



2nd segment may have a narrow yellow line. The underside of the antennal scape is 

 red in the $; the latter has the clypeus reddish, black in the centre above; the apex is 

 tranverse; the mandibles are red on the innerside, middle and, more narrowly, at the 

 apex. There is a small red spot on the innerside of the eye incision and one on the 

 lower part of the front. The propleurse are rarely entirely red, most examples having a 

 large black mark near the top. The furrow on the apex of the metanotum becomes 

 gradually widened below. The abdominal petiole in the $ is smooth; in the tf it is 

 closely punctured. In one a 71 there is a distinct yellow tranverse line on the post- 

 scutellum. The apical segments of the abdomen may be reddish as described by DE 

 SAUSSURE in the a 71 , or they may be black. The extent of the red colouration varies, 

 it being more or less invaded by the black; thus the scutellum may be red entirely, black 

 at the base only, or black at the base and down the centre. The 2nd abdominal seg- 

 ment may be black, or have the basal half at the sides and the ventral surface reddish. 

 Characteristic of this species is the fact that the anterior ocellus is distinctly larger than 



the others. 



Eumenes erythraspis sp. nov. 



Black, the scape and basal 3 joints of the flagellum of the antennae, the clypeus, 

 mandibles, prothorax, a line, dilated at the base, on the sides of the basal half of the 

 mesonotum, scutellums, the metanotum, except the central depression, mesopleune, except 

 at the base, apex of metapleura?, 1st abdominal segment, except for a black line down 

 the centre, reaching nearer to the apex than to the base, the 2nd except for a broad 

 cruciform mark, the longitudinal basal part longer than the apical and narrowed towards 

 I he base, the transverse line broader than the longitudinal one, bands on the base of 

 the 3rd and 4th segments, a large spot in the centre of the 2nd ventral segment 

 and the base of the others, black. Wings hyaline, fulvous along the fore margin, the 

 apex, especially at the radial cellule, fuscous violaceous, the stigma fulvous, the nervures 

 black. <j>. 



Length 18 mm. 



Kilimandjaro : lower Kibonolo, Obstgartensteppe, 16th November. 



Clypeus twice longer than wide, its apex slightly broadly incised; above it is a 

 yellow mark, longer than wide, gradually narrowed above, and bordered there with rufous ; 

 yellow also is the inner two-thirds of the eye incision, the outer edge of the yellow being bord- 

 ered with rufous. Hinder ocelli separated from each other by almost double the distance 

 they are from the eyes. Temples very narrow, lined on the innerside with pale yellow. 

 Furrows on apex of metanotum wide and shallow. Abdominal petiole tuberculate laterally 

 shortly beyond the middle. The puncturation on the head and thorax is close and not 

 very strong; the white pubescence is thickest on the metathorax. 



The o 71 has the clypeus, a mark, twice longer than wide and obliquely narrowed 

 above, over it, a broad line down the outer edge of the metanotum, a broad, short line 

 in the centre of the base of the propleunc, a longish conical mark on the sides of the 

 abdominal petiole shortly beyond the middle, a narrow line on its apex and 2 lines, 



