22 MB. smith's catalogue or htmenopteeous insects 



4. Odynerus fulvipennis. 0. niger, flavo varius, pedibus ferru- 

 gineis, alls fulvo-hyalinis. 



Male. Black; head and thorax closely and strongly punctured; the 

 clypeus and two spots above, a line along the lower margin of the 

 sinus of the eyes, a narrow line behind them, the scape in front, and 

 the mandibles yellow; the tips of the latter rufo-piceous ; the an- 

 tennae and legs ferruginous ; an interrupted yellow line on the 

 anterior margin of the thorax ; the wings fulvo-hyaline ; the veins 

 which enclose the marginal and second and third submarginal cells 

 fuscous, the rest pale testaceous ; a fuscous cloud in the marginal 

 cell. Abdomen: the apical margin of the second segment with a 

 yellow fascia, the following segments with red fasciae. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Genus Icaria, Sauss. 



1. Icaria ferruginea, Sauss. Mon. GuSpes Soc. p. 37. 15. 

 Hab. India, Celebes. 



2. Icaria pilosa. I. nigra, rude punctata et densissime pubescens, 

 clypeo flavo, thorace, pedibus abdomineque ferrugineo variegatis; 

 alls subhyalinis, anticis apice fusco maculatis. 



Male. Length 7i lines. Black; closely and strongly punctured; the 

 clypeus, a line on the mandibles, and the scape in front, yellow ; tips 

 of the mandibles, the scape above, and the base of the flagellum fer- 

 ruginous. Thorax : the prothorax, scutellum and postscutellum, 

 ferruginous ; the tegulse and legs pale ferruginous, the coxae black ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline, with a dark cloud in the marginal cell extending 

 to the apex of the wing ; a fainter cloud traverses the margin of the 

 wing to its base. Abdomen : the first, second and third segments 

 with a reddish-yellow fascia, that on the second segment continued 

 beneath ; a longitudinal broad stripe of the same colour on each side 

 of the second segment ; its apical margin serrated. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Genus Polistes, Latr. 



1. Pohstes Sagittarius, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. p. 56. 12. 



Various specimens from Greece and Celebes have the thorax more or 



less ferruginous. 

 Hab. India, Celebes, China, Greece. 



2. Pohstes Picteti, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 69. 28. t. 6. f. 8. 

 Hab. Ceram, Australia, Celebes. 



3. Polistes fastidiosus, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. p. 60. 18. 

 Hab. Africa (Gambia), Celebes. 



4. Polistes stigma, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 261. 41. 

 Hab. India, Ceram, Celebes. 



5. Polistes Philippinensis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 58. 14 (var.). 

 Hab. Philippine Islands. 



