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reddish ; scutellum and metathorax with transverse yellow spots ; abdomen yellow ahove, 

 black at the extreme base, the sutures marked with transverse dark bands, all connected, 

 the first, and broadest, black, the hinder ones reddish, more or less varied with black ; 

 terminal segment entirely black ; abdomen beneath reddish at base, and with a continuous 

 reddish stripe, expanding at last suture and darkening towards the last segment ; legs 

 yellow, the coxae, tegulae, upperside of the femora, and the upperside of the hind legs 

 reddish ; wings strongly tinged with smoky yellow. 



Allied to S. Uljanini, Rad. 



Hah Hari-rud valley. 



5. Stizus tages, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 20.) 



Female. Length IS millim. Yellow ; face clothed with grey pubescence ; a black 

 band on the vertex over the two hindermost ocelli, and projecting squarely downwards 

 on each side to a level with the front ocellus, which is narrowly surrounded with black, 

 especially below, where the colour projects into a point ; a black spot above each 

 antenna, and the tips of the mandibles and the extreme occiput black ; antennae 

 reddish, scape yellow ; prothorax yellow, with a round black spot in the middle in front ; 

 mesothorax black, with two short yellow lines in the middle in front, beyond the base ; 

 shoulders and scapuhe yellow ; pectus black in the middle, and reddish yellow, 

 clothed with grey hair, on the sides ; scutellum yellow, with a large red oblong 

 spot in the middle ; postscutellum yellow, narrowly edged -tt-ith black in front ; meta- 

 thorax yellow, marked ^vith a large obtuse-angled black triangle, and l)ounded behind 

 with narrow black lines ; the sides reddish, clothed with grey hair ; abdomen yellow, the 

 base black ; the first two sutures broadly black, the first connected with the base by a 

 black line ; the remaining sutures above and those below very narrowly black or 

 I'eddish ; terminal segments inclining to reddish ; legs yellow ; the coxae and trochanters 

 marked with black and reddish ; hind legs slightly reddish above. 



Hab. Hari-rud valley. 



Allied to 5'. hitescens. Pall. 



DIPLOPTERA. 



V E S P I D ^. 



6. POLISTES HEBE.EUS. 



Vespa hebr(m, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i. p. 292. u. 58 (1787). 



Several specimens of this widely distributed and very variable species. 



Hah. Hari-rud valley. 



7. Vespa orientalis. 



Vespa orientalis, Liiin. Mant. Plant, p. 540 (1771). 



A common species in S.E. Europe, Egypt, and N. India. 

 ILab. Helmand valley. 



