1865.] 157 



segments with obscure yellowish lateral spots or interrupted bands. 

 Length 3 lines ; expanse of wings 5 lines. 



Male. — Resembles the female, with the antennae longer, and the sixth 

 abdominal segment margined posteriorly with yellow like the fifth. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Four specimens. 



Closely resembles C. festiva, but is smaller and at once distinguished 

 by the immaculate metathorax and coarse punctation. 



Fam. EUMENID.E. 

 Genus ZETHUS, Fabr. 

 Zethus rufinodus, Latr. 



Eumenes rufinoda, Latr. Gen. Crust, ot Ins. iv, p. 137, pi. 14, fig. 5, $>. Sauss. 



Mon. Guepes. Sol. p. 42. 

 Zethus rufinodus, Sauss. Mon. Guepes. Sol. Suppl. p. 118, pi. 6, fig. 3, 9 • 

 Collection. — Dr. J. Gundlacb. One specimen. 



Zethus Poeyi, Sauss. 



Zethus Poeyi, Sauss. Eev. Zool. 1857, p. 270. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Three £ , four % specimens. 



Genus EUMENES, Latr. 

 Eumenes abdominalis, Drury. 



Sphex abdominalis, Drury, Illustr. Ins. i, pi. 45, fig. 2. 



Vespa attenuata, Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi, p. 674. Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 372; Spec. 



Ins. i. p. 469; Mant. Ins. i. p. 293; Ent. Syst. ii. p. 282. 

 Polistes attenuatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 279. 

 Eumenes abdominalis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes. Sol. p. 70. Guer. in LaSagra's Hist. 



Cuba, Ins. p. 768. 

 Eumenes colona, Guer. in LaSagra's Hist. Cuba, Ins. pi. 19, fig. 1. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Two £ , one % , specimens. 

 This species is erroneously figured by Gruerin in LaSagra's Hist. 

 Cuba, as E. colona Sauss., and states that that species, as well as E. 

 ornata Sauss., is found on the Island of Cuba. I have not seen speci- 

 mens of either species from that locality. 



Eumenes cubensis, n. sp. 



Fuscous; orbits, clypeus, anterior margin of prothorax, subtriangular spot 

 beneath the wings, two spots on mesothorax, anterior margin of scutellum, post- 

 scutellum, part of metathorax, tibiae and tarsi, apex of petiole of abdomen, and 

 two bands on the second segment, yellow; wings fusco-hyaline, fuliginous at 

 tips. 



Female. — Head fuscous, very densely punctured, slightly pubescent ; 

 the orbits, filling up the deep sinus in front, a subtriangular mark be- 

 tween the antennae, and the clypeus, bright yellow ; clypeus smooth, 

 deeply emarginate at tip ; mandibles and palpi pale ferruginous ; an- 

 tenna? bright ferruginous, paler at base, the seventh to tenth joints 



