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Gen. KORTOKIA (Mrai). 



Mandibles lengthened, dentate or lobate. 



Lip and jaics lengthened ; labial palpi composed of four 

 articles ; the first three armed with long hairs ; maxillary palpi 

 composed of six articles. 



Glypeus pyriform, truncate or emarginate. 



Abdomen having its first segment retracted, funnel-shaped or 

 subcampanulate, subbidentate in the middle. 



Metathorax short, convex, its groove shallow, flattened behind, 

 its lateral edges distinct. 



The remainder as in the Montezumia. 



This type establishes the transition of Odynerus to Eumenes. 



The organs of the mouth are almost the same as in Eumenes 

 and Odynerus, but the body has the form to which it inclines in 

 Montezumia, the first segment being funnel-shaped, not sessile, as 

 in Odynerus, but hot contracted into a petiole as in Eumenes. 



1. IV. intferisaedia Sadss. 



Odynerus intermedins Sauss. Vespides, I, 155, 39; pi. svii, fig. I, III, 224 

 (1852;. 



Hab. Southern Europe. 



2. N. synillBOl'liltia Sauss. — Nigra, nitida, dense punctata; clypeo £ 

 subeuiaiginato, % integro flavo; antennis subtus ferrugineis, scapo % 

 fascia flava ; mesonoto bisulcato, metanoto medio foveolato, pionoto 

 medio abdominisqne segmentorum limbo £ 1-3, 9 1> 2, limbo, flavis ; 

 segmentis 2, 3 margine subreflexo; tibiis et tarsis flavis; alis fusco- 

 violaceis. 



Odynerus symmorphus Sadss. Vespides, III, 246, 119 (1854). 



Total lengtb, 17 mm. ; wyig, 14 mm. 



9. Clypeus black; oval, convex, punctured; its inferior border 

 channelled, terminated by a slender and shining, subemarginate, 

 subbilobate lamina ; between the antenna? a little transverse 

 tubercle or carina. On the vertex is a transverse depression. 

 Thorax moderate, ovate. Head and thorax punctured and 

 clothed with a ferruginous pile; mesothorax marked on the 

 posterior part of its disk with two or four longitudinal grooves; 



