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EUMENIDiE. 



the mesonotum and the flanks and legs reddish brown, with some 

 black markings. 



Ilab. Throughout India, not ascending the hills above 2000 feet ; 

 Burma ; Tenasserim ; Ceylon ; China ; the Malayan subregion. 

 5 . Length 25-27 ; exp. 24-58 mm. S • Length 23-25 ; euy. 

 46-49 mm. 



607. Eumenes dimidiatipennis, Sauss. Man. Guep. Sol. p. 51, $ c? ; 



Smith, Cat. v, p. 25. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth and shining ; clypeus 

 oval, convex, anterior margin transverse; antennal carina large, 

 very short, with a very short fork above 

 the base of the antennae ; scutellum with 

 a short medial longitudinal carina at base, 

 and the median segment with a medial 

 longitudinal furrow, indistinct at base, 

 widening and deepening into a triangular 

 hollow at apex. Obscure dull red, the 

 vertex, the apex of the antennae, a mark 

 on each side, and another at the apex of 

 the mesonotum, the base of the petiole, 

 and the apical half of the 2nd and the 

 whole of the following abdominal segments 

 black ;, wings ferruginous, with nearly the 

 apical half of the fore wing fuscous, having 

 a purple effulgence, 

 cf similar, but smaller and slighter ; the head black, the orbits 

 of the eyes red ; mesonotum black, a black spot on the mesopleuraj. 

 Var. 5 . Entirely red, with no black markings. 

 Hal. Bombay ; Malabar ; Karachi ; Ahmadabad, Punjab ; ex- 

 tending into Arabia a]id Africa. $ . Length 24-27; eay. 52 mm. 

 S , Length 22-25 ; exp. 46-50 mm. 



608. Eumenes esuriens. 



Vespa esuriens, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i, p. 293. 



Eiuuenes esuriens, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 286 ; Scmss. Mon. Guep. 

 Sol. p. 5(3, 5 c? ; SmUk, Cat. v, p. 22. 



§ . Clypeus and the cheeks behind the eyes smooth ; front and 

 vertex of the head and the thorax with close fine but shallow- 

 punctures ; abdomen smooth, slightly shining; mandibles long, 

 having a tooth at apex, and more or less toothed on the inner side ; 

 clypeus strongly convex, but flattened in the centre, its anterior 

 margin transversely truncate at the apex, oblique at the sides, the 

 front between the antennae raised and prominent, with a broad short 

 furrow at the base of the prominence ; mesonotum anteriorly with 

 a medial longitudinal fine carina, interrupted at the apex, but 

 continued over the scutellum ; median segment with a medial 

 furrow broadening and deepening rapidly at apex ; petiole as long 

 as the head and thorax united, broadening at apex, beneath with 

 two small tubercles in the middle and small depressions and 



Fig. f)6. —Eumenes 

 dimidiatipetivis, J • \- 



