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on each side of the apex, and the margin of the petiole posteriorly 

 yellow ; wings dark fuscous with a purple effulgence. 



J similar ; the clypeus eraarginate at apex, not bidentate. 

 Hah. Pundaloya {Green), Ceylon. $ . Length 15 ; ex p. 28 mm. 

 S slightly smaller. 



601. Eumenes arcMtectus, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. ill (18.j9), p. 20, 



26. 



2 c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and densely punctured, 

 obscurely pubescent ; clypeus convex, broader below than above, 

 the apex deeply, the sides slightly emarginate ; the median seuj- 

 ment rounded posteriorly and bulging ; petiole of abdomen long, 

 subcj'lindrical, longer than the head and thorax united, the 

 2nd segment large and very broad. Black : clypeus in the male 

 yellow, in the feuiale black ; a clavate spot between the antenufe, 

 an obscure very short line behind the eyes at top, a narrow line on 

 the pronotum, another, medially interrupted, on the postscutellum, 

 a spot on each side behind the tegulae, and a narrow line on the 

 apical margins of the petiole and of the 2nd segment of the 

 abdomen, yellow ; legs black variegated with yellow ; wings f usco- 

 hyaline with a coppery effulgence, 



Var. The yellow markings entirely wanting. 



Hab. Tenasserim ; Celebes, 5 <S • Length 1 1-12 ; e.vp. 23 mm. 



The type from Celebes has more yellow about it, but many of 

 the co-types from Celebes are like the Indian form described 

 above, 



602. Eumenes punctata, Sauss. Mon. GuSp. Sol. p. 37, $ j ; Smith,, 



Cat. V, p. 24. 



2 . Head and thorax punctured, thinly pubescent, abdomen 



more densely punctured, granular ; 



clypeus coffin-shaped, apex depressed 



and deeply incised ; antennal carina 



short, clavate : median segment 



^ roundly truncate posteriorly, with 



*^ a slight medial vertical sulcation. 



Black, the pubescence on the head 



and thorax short, soft, fuscous ; two 



spots at the base of the clypeus, the 



antennal carina, the posterior margin 



of the pronotum broadly, the tegula?, 



postscutellum, the apices of the femora, 



the tibiae and tarsi, the posterior 



Fig. 95. margins of the petiole and of succeed- 



Eumems punctata, $ . \. j^^ ^^^^ segments of the abdomen, and 



spot on each side of the 2nd segment, yellow ; the yellow band on 



the petiole and on the 2nd segment deeply eraargiuate anteriorly ; 



wings hyaline suffused with brown. 



c? similar, only the petiole of the abdomen granular, 2nd and 



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