or MYSOL, CEKAM, WAIGIOU, BOUEU, AND TIMOR. 43 



Gen. PoLiSTES, Latr. 



1. Polistes tepidus, Fahr. Syst. Piez. p. 271. 7- 



Hob. Waigiou ; Mysol ; Aru ; Key; Bachian ; Solomon Island ; New 

 Guinea ; Australia. 



2. Polistes diabolicus, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. p. 68. 27, t. 6. f. 7. 

 Hab. Ceram ; Aru ; Timor ; Java. 



3. Polistes elegans. Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. iii. 169. 5. 

 Hab. Mysol ; Ceram ; Aru ; Key Island. 



4. Polistes nigrifrons, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. iii. 168. 4. 

 Hab. Waigiou; Aru. 



5. Polistes Picteti, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. iv. 22. 2. 



Hab. Goram ; Amboyna ; Bouru ; Celebes ; Ceram ; Australia. 



6. Polistes Smithii, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. p. 60. 17. 

 Hab. Mysol; Africa. 



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

 Hab. Ceram; Celebes; India. 



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

 Hab. Mysol; Africa. 



In the specimen from Mysol the yellow markings of the thorax are 

 almost obsolete, but the metathorax is transversely striated, and in all im- 

 portant specific characters it agrees with specimens from Africa. 



Gen. PoLTBiA, Sauss. 



1. PoLYBiA LiMATULA. P. nigra, alls subhyalinis; abdomine ferru- 

 gineo, marginibus apicalibus flavis. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Head, antennae, thorax, and legs black ; a 

 pale spot at the base of the mandibles, and the antennae and tarsi 

 rufo-fulvous beneath ; thinly covered with cinereous down ; the wings 

 subhyaline, the anterior pair slightly yellowish along the costa. The 

 abdomen ferruginous, more or less dusky in dilFerent specimens, with 

 a narrow yellow border to all the segments ; the basal segment 

 campanulate, not bordered beneath. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Gen. Vespa, Linn. 



1. Vespa affinis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 254. 2 (var. V. cincta?). 



Hab. Ceram; Mysol; Gilolo; Bachian; Amboyna; Dory; Malacca; 

 Java ; India ; China. 



2. V. Alduini, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. p. 154. 38. 

 Hab. Ceram. 



Note. — Specimens from Ceram have the head obscure red, and also 

 more coarsely rugose, as is also the metathorax ; still, as Saussure sug- 

 gests, it may possibly be a variety of V, cincta. 



