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with the extreme apex of the fore wings fuscous and the costal 

 border darker in colour. The above is the description of the type 

 specimen. The commoner variety has much less yellow ou the 

 head, and the broad band on the posterior half of the 2ud 

 abdominal segment is reduced to an elongate oval spot on each 

 side ; the petiole also is black, not ferruginous. 



(S similar, slighter, the scape of the antennae black with a streak 

 of yellow anteriorly. 



Hab. Mussooree, N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Calcutta ; Central 

 India ; Madras ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 2 • Lenjih 21-23 ; eoep. 

 40-43 mm. S • Length 18-20 ; exp. 34-36 mm. 



597. Eumenes depressa, Smi^s. Man. GaSp. Sol Sujjpl. p. 135, $ ; 



Smit/i, Cat. Y, p. 23. 



2 6 • Vertex and front closely and finely punctured, thorax in 

 front with a few scattered punctures ; the 'postscutellum, median 

 segment, and abdomen smooth and impunctate, the 2nd and 

 following segments of the last densely pruinose ; clypeus slightly 

 convex, broadly subpyriform in the female, narrower in the male, 

 deeply emargiuate anteriorly ; median segment posteriorly with a 

 broad medial furrow and four blunt teeth at apex. Black ; the 

 clypeus, a vertical streak above it, the emargination of the eyes, a 

 line on the inner orbits not reaching the vertex, the cheeks, a broad 

 line on the pronotum, two hook-shaped marks back to back on the 

 disc of the mesonotum, a spot on the mesopleuroe, the teguloe, a 

 square spot at each lateral angle of the scutellum, the sides poste- 

 riorly of the median segment, two elongate spots or streaks on the 

 petiole above, two contiguous spots at its apex (these spots bent at 

 right angles and continued along the sides at the apex of the 

 petiole), a large oval spot on each side of the 2nd abdominal seg- 

 ment, and transverse anteriorly emargiuate or festooned bands on 

 the apical margins of segments 2-5, yellow ; legs black variegated 

 with yellow, a small round black spot on the yellow of the 

 tegulse, and a larger one on the yellow on each side of the median 

 segment ; wings f usco-hyaline with a fulvous tinge, slightly purplish 

 along the costal margin of fore wing ; the wings in the male paler 

 than in the female. 



Hah, India (Scmssure and Smith) ; Tenasserim. 2 • Length 20 ; 

 eocjp. 40 mm. <S . Length IG ; e.vp. 30 mm. 



598. Eumenes hrevirostrata, Sauss. Mon. Guip. Sol. SupjA. p. 136, 



pi. vii, fig. 1, 2 6; Smith, Cat. \, p. 23. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen nearly smooth, the few ])unctui'es 

 on them widely scattered ; clypeus oval, raised flat above the 

 anterior margin, with two projecting teeth ; front between the 

 antennae subtuberculate, with an elongate narrow depression above ; 

 median segment quadridentate at apex, medially furrowed ; post- 

 scutellum subangular posteriorly ; petiole not particularly long, 

 broad at apex. Eed ; the clypeus, an irregular mark on the front, 



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