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convex, more strongly and widely punctured than the front; its apex in the centre slightly 

 roundly incised at the apex, which is raised, rounded above. Temples roundly nar- 

 rowed, as long as the part of the top of the eyes behind the incision. Hinder ocelli 

 separated from each other by a distinctly greater distance than they are from the eyes. 

 Scutellums slightly depressed in the middle. Metanotum with a narrow, clearly defined 

 furrow down the middle; the metapleune bordered above by a fine keel and below the 

 middle by a furrow; the part between these is closely, irregularly striated; the part be- 

 low the furrow is strongly striated at the base, the rest finely, closely, obliquely striated ; 

 this part below is bounded by a distinct keel. Mandibles short, broad, bidentate, the 

 lower tooth the larger. 



Belonogaster appears to be the predominant wasp Genus in Tropical Afrika, almost 

 equalling Polistes in the abundance of specimens. B. rufipennis D. G. (Ent. News II, 

 p. 4-2) has been recorded by Fox from Kilimandjaro, but this a species or name, which is 

 difficult to trance, and is included by Mr. F. F. KOHL in his Monograph in the form 

 he has described under the name of pictus, and by other authors is regarded as a syno- 

 nym of griseus F. 



September 1908. 



List of Vespidse hitherto recorded from the Kilimandjaro 



and Meru district. 



1. Polistes marginalis FAB. 



2. Smithii SAUSS. 



3. Icaria africana n. sp. 



4. Belonogaster massaicus n. sp. 



8. Eumenes xanthaspis n. sp. 



9. meruensis n. sp. 



10. ma.rillosa D. G. 



11. erythrospila n. sp. 



12. liicasia SAUSS. 



13. erythraspis n. sp. 



14. variventris n. sp. 



15. crassinoda n. sp. 



16. Labus maculicollis n. sp. 



17. annulipes n. sp. 



18. Synagris xanthura SAUSS. 



19. Shynchium Thomsoni n. sp. 



20. Odynerus Meyeri n. sp. 



21. rotun&iscutis n. sp. 



22. pulchripilocellus n. sp. 



Vespinae. 



5. Belonogastvr eryihrospilus n. sp. 



6. gracilis n. sp. 



7. sexmaculatus n. sp. 



EumeninaB. 



23. Odynerus meruensis n. sp. 



24. stiraspis n. sp. 



25. Yngvei n. sp. 



26. kilimandjaroensis n. sp. 



27. rufoquadripustulatus n. sp. 



28. silaensis SAUSS. 



29. armatiscutis n. sp. 



30. cnemophilus n. sp. 



31. curvirufolineatus n. sp. 



32. kibonotensis n. sp. 



33. Andstrocerus (Nortonia) lineaticottis n. sp. 



34. Odynerus massaicus n. sp. 



35. maculiscapus n. sp. 



36. Nortonia striativentris n. sp. 



37. Taiiyzethus africanus n. sp. 



