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abdominal segments 1-5 above with broad submarginal bisinuate 

 bauds, lacteous yellow or white; two spots at the base of the clypeus, 

 the coxae, femora, and tibiae of the anterior and intermediate legs 

 posteriorly, and the coxae, femora, tibiae, and tarsi of the posterior 

 legs both anteriorly and posteriorly, variegated with black ; wings 

 hyaline, nervures brownish yellow, tegulae black. 



d* similar, but with 9th-llth joints of the antennae flattened 

 and carinated on the inside, the apical two segments black. In 

 both sexes the 1st ventral segment is strongly, 2-G faintly longi- 

 tudinally carinate; the 2iid ventral segment with a smaK depression 

 on each side of the medial line. 



Hah. Burma; Tenasserim. $ S . Length 18-20; exp. 36-40 mm. 



525. Bembex indica. 



? Bembyx glauca, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i, p. 285. 

 ? Vespa glauca, Gm. Syst. Nat. ed. xiii, p. 2769. 

 ? Bembex glauca, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 249. 



Bembex indica, Handl. Sitzunysb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cii, 1893, 

 p. 771, pi. i, fig-. 33, pi. vi, fig. 33, $ J • 



2 S • Clypeus and front of the face smooth, vertex of the head, 

 thorax, and abdomen with fine close but shallow punctures and 

 pubescent ; the clypeus strongly convex, its anterior margin nearly 

 transverse ; vertex concavely depressed, ocellar region slightly 

 raised. Pale sulphur-yellow; two diagonal spots above the base of 

 the antennae, the vertex of the head, the mesonotum, the base of 

 the scutellum, also of the postscutellum and of the median segment, 

 a spot on each side and one on the apex of the last joined by a narrow 

 line, a diagonal spot on each side of abdominal segments 1-5 in 

 the middle above, a pear-sha[)ed spot in the middle of the 2nd 

 ventral segment, and the spots on the following segments black ; 

 the mesonotum with two broad lateral lines and an apical trans- 

 verse line joining them yellow ; legs yellow ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures testaceous, tegulae yellow. 



S similar, with the 7th and 8th joints of the antennae slightly 

 produced below, the apical segment black with a lateral yellow 

 mark. 



Hah. Barrackpore; Sikhim; North-West Provinces ; Bombay; 

 Ceylon ; extending into the Malayan region. $ S . Length 17-19; 

 ecty. 32-35 mm. 



I have described the common type of this species ; varieties 

 have more or less the black markings wider and more distinct. 



526. Bembex hesione, Bmyh. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vlii, p. 381 . 



$ . Clypeus and front smooth, with a few scattered punctures, 

 head above pubescent, the pubescence soft and long, vertex with a 

 deep furrow on each side of the ocellar region, which is raised ; 

 thorax and abdomen very minutely and closely punctured, with a 

 short very fine recumbent hair springing from each puncture ; 

 abdomen with the 1st ventral segment tuberculate in the middle, 

 the apical segment rounded posteriorly. Black, the labrum, base 



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