HYMENOPTEKA AND VESPID.E. 67 



Vespa ciucta Fab. 



The typical cincta Fab. is rare (Kioiiw Lings, Teysman), 

 the form ajfinis Fab. common and, as regards the colouration 

 of the basal segment of the abdomen, variable. Java ; Lahat, 

 Palembang (Giesbers). Buitenzorg, Java (H. tSemon leg.). 

 Aiuboina. 



Vespa analis Fab. 



Java (Dr. Ploem leg.). Batavia (Van Nooten leg.). 

 Apparently a common species in Malaya. 



Vespa velutina Lep. 



Java (Dr. Ploem leg.). Tijendiby, Java (R. Semon). 

 The light colouration of tlie tarsi and abdomen varies from 

 brown to light yellow. 



PoUstes varifornis sp. nov. 



Reddish, the hind edge of the pronotnm yellow ; the apex 

 of the "ò"'^ and the whole of the following joints of the antennœ, 

 a large mark extending from behind the ocelli to the antennae, 

 the mark narrowed in front, a line on the base of mesonotum, 

 the line dilated in the middle behind, the sides more obscurely, 

 the parts surrounding the scutellums, the base and apex of 

 the metanotum narrowly, its middle more broadly, the meso- 

 pleurte, except for a mark on the base above, and a smaller 

 one below and another on the apex below, mesosternum, the 

 base and lower part of the metapleurœ broadly, and the base 

 of the abdominal segments (the basal more broadly than the 

 others), black. Wings hyaline, largely suffused with rufous, 

 the nervures and stigma rufous. <T. 



Length 27 mm. 



Java. 



5* 



