108 ME. smith's catalogue of hymenopterous insects 



mediate and posterior tibiae, outside ; the apical joints of the anterior 

 t arsi, and the calcaria, pale testaceous ; the tarsi beneath, and the 

 posterior tibiae within, clothed with a golden-yellow pubescence. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Group SOLITARY WASPS. 



Fam. EUMENIDJE. 

 Gen. Gayella, Saussure. 



1. Gayella pulchella. G, nigra, punctata, subnitida, flavo-guttata 

 et fasciata, pedibus ferrugineis flavo-guttatis, alis subhyalinis et iri- 

 descentibus. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black : head quadrate ; the clypeus deeply 

 emarginate in front, the angles of the emargination produced and 

 denticulate ; a large oblong spot behind the eyes, two obhque lines 

 on the vertex nearly touching the summit of the eyes and inclined 

 inwards, a stripe at the base of the scape in front, the labrum and 

 mandibles, yellow. Thorax : the prothorax in front, two longitudinal 

 abbreviated lines on the disk of the mesothorax, the tegulae in front 

 and behind, a slightly interrupted transverse line on the scutellum 

 and post-scutellum ; a spot beneath the wings, and the sides of the 

 metathorax, yellow; the legs ferruginous; a stripe on the anterior 

 femora outside, another on the anterior and intermediate tibiae, and a 

 spot at the apex of the posterior pair, yellow; the tibiae and tarsi 

 fuscous ; the wings fusco-hyaline ; the anterior margin of the superior 

 pair yellowish, their apex slightly clouded. Abdomen : the lateral 

 and apical margins of the petiole, an ovate spot on each side of the 

 basal segment, a fascia a little before the apical margins of the first, 

 second and third segments, yellow ; beneath black. 



Hah. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Gen. Eumene«. 



1. Eumenes flavopicta. 



Eumenes flavopicta, Blanch. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. de Ch., d'Orb. Ins. pi. 2. 



fig. 2. 

 Hab. Singapore. 



2. Eumenes Blanchardi, Satiss. Mon. Guepes, Sol. p. 66. 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



3. Eumenes quadrispinosa, Sauss. Mon. Guepes, Suppl. p. 134. pi. 7. 

 fig. 2$. 



Hab. Malacca. 



4. Eumenes xanthura, Sauss. Mon. Guepes, Sol. p. 46. 

 Eumenes circinalis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 286 (var. ?), 

 Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



