30 EGYPTIAN AKD 



wings Avitli a larid costal streak and with an exterior blackish costal 

 streak; veins black. Length of the body 6i lines. 

 "VVady Ferran. 



155. EuMENES LEPTOGASTEii. Mole. — Black, with silvery tomen- 

 tum, minutely punctured. Head in front yellow ; mouth luteous. 

 AntennfB reddish, with a blackish streak above beyond the middle. 

 Thorax yellow ; disk black ; a reddish spot on each side adjoining the 

 teguhB, which are also reddish. Metathorax and abdomen reddish ; 

 petiole black at the base and with a black stripe ; club black, with 

 one or two yellow bands, of which the second is sometimes inter- 

 rupted; under side with five yellow bands. Legs reddish. Wings 

 cinereous ; veins black. P'ore wings with a blackish costal subapical 

 patch. Length of the body 0^- — 7 lines. 

 Wady Ferran. 



150. EuMENEs SIGNIC0RN13. Black, roughly punctured. Front 

 yellow, slightly silvered ; a small yellow dot between the antennae ; 

 a short yellow line along the hind side of each eye and a shorter 

 yellow line along the outer side of each eye. Antennae reddish, with 

 a piceous streak near the base and a piceous band near the tip. 

 Thorax : a band on the fore border straightened in the middle tegula?, 

 two short bands on the scutellum, two transverse streaks on each side 

 and a large spot on each side of the metathorax yellow. Legs 

 reddish ; tibiae and four anterior femora yellow on the outer side. 

 Wings cinereous ; veins black. Fore wings with a blackish streak 

 along the apical part of the costa. Length of the body 5 '? lines. 

 Massowah. 



157. EuMENEs DiLECTULA. Male. — Black, finely punctured. 

 Front yellowish white, with silvery tomentum. Antennae tawny 

 beneath; first joint yellowish white beneath. Thorax: an inter* 

 I'Upted band on the fore border, tegulae and two nearly connected dots 

 on the scutellum yellowish white. Petiole red on each side of its 

 hind part ; a yellowish white band on its hind border. Abdomen 

 with a yellowish white band near the tip. Legs yellowish white ; 

 middle femora on the inner side and hind femora except at the tips 

 on the outer side black. ^Mngs pellucid; veins black. Length of 

 the body 3 lines. 



Wady Geuneb. 



Genus RHYNCHIUM, Smiss. 



158. RiiYNcmtiM ocuLATUH. Vespa oculata, Fair. Eiit. Syst. ii. 2(Jo. 



Cairo. 



Inhabits South Europe. 



