HYMENOPTERA. Ill 



64. POLISTES METRICUS. B.M. 



Polistes metrica, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. 388. 1. 

 Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 75. 35. t. 7. f- 4. 



Hab. North America. 



65. Polistes rubiginosus. B.M. 



Polistes rubiginosus, St. Farg. Hym. i. 524. 10. 



Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 74. 34. 

 Hab. Philadelphia. 



66. Polistes Canadensis. B.M. 



Vespa Canadensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 952. 25. 



De Geer, Ins. iii. 580. 3. t. 29. f. 7- 



Sulz. Hist. bis. t. 19. f. a. 



Reaum. Mem. Ins. vi. 169. t. 17- f. 4. 



Christ. Hym. 225. 



Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 684. 74. 

 Vespa marribosus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 952. 26. 



Christ. Hym. 217. 

 Vespa nigripennis, De Geer, Ins. iii. 582. t. 29. f. 10. 



Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 684. 

 Vespa lanio, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 365. 15; Spec. Ins. i. 461. 17; Mant. 

 Ins. i. 288. 20 ; Ent. Syst. ii. 260. 24. 



Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 681. 59. 

 Polistes lanio, Fabr. Syst. Fiez. 269. 1 ; Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Land, new ser. i. 176. t. 16. f. 1. 

 Polistes infuscata, St. Farg. Hym. i. 520. 2. 

 Polistes unieolor, St. Farg. Hym. i. 520. 3. 

 Polistes erythroeephala, Latr. Voy. Humb. et Bonpl. Ins. ii. 96. 



no. 132. t. 38. f. 3. 

 Polistes Canadensis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 72. 32. t. 1. f. 1. 



Hab. North and South America. 



67' Polistes oculatus. B.M. 



Male. Length 7 lines. — Black : the head and thorax densely 

 covered with short fulvous pubescence ; the face as high as the 

 emargination of the eyes, the mandibles, outer orbits of the eyes, 

 and the scape in front, yellow ; the fiagellum ferruginous above, 

 with the two basal joints as well as the scape above, fuscous ; the 

 eyes very large, prominent, and approximating more than is 

 usual in this genus. Thorax : a narrow line on the prothorax in 

 front, a similar one on the posterior margin, a spot beneath the 

 wings, the pectus, coxte and femora in front, the tegulae, two 



