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grooves at apex. Head yellow : a broad band between the tops of 

 the eyes across the vertex black ; antenua3 light reddish ; pronotum, 

 pro- and mesopleurse, and postscutelhim yeUow, mesonotum for 

 the most part black ; scutellum, median segment, and legs light 

 reddish ; the anterior tibiae and tarsi yellow ; petiole of abdomen 

 and base of the 2nd abdominal segment light reddish, the petiole 

 and 2nd segment with a subapical band black, followed by a band 

 of yellow, the yellow on the latter occupying the apical half of the 

 segment, remaining segments yellow, with their bases (when drawn 

 out) black ; wings flavo-hyaline, with their apical margins broadly 

 light fuscous, and a narrow subapical spot on the fore wing dark 

 fuscous, nervures and tegulae yellow. 



S similar, but more slender ; anal segment, two spots on the 

 2nd ventral segment, and the posterior legs black. 



Var. The head, except the black transverse band on the vertex, 

 and the mesonotum light reddish. 



Hab. Throughout India generally; Burma and Tenasserim. 

 $. Length 18-20; e.r^). 34-37 mm. J. Length 16-18; ex^j. 

 28-32 mm. 



609. Eumenes gracilis, Saiiss. Mon. Guep. Sol. p. 57, $ (5'. 

 Eumenes esuriens, S-inith [nee Fabr.), Cat. v, p. 22, pt. 



5 . Closely alhed to and resembling E. esuriens, Pabr., but con- 

 stantly more slightly built, with comparatively a broader clypeus, a 

 longer petiole, and darker wings. In colour it 

 differs considerably, and is very constant to type. 

 I have seen no specimens that could be said to 

 form links between the two species. Black ; the 

 clypeus and front up to the sinus of the eyes, a 

 line on the cheeks, the pronotum, a large spot on 

 the mesopleura;, the postscutellum, the sides of 

 the median segment posteriorly, a narrow sub- 

 apical band on the petiole, and the posterior 

 Fig. 97. margins of the 2ud and following abdominal 



Eumei^s gracilis, gegu^ents broadly yellow ; the scutellum and tlie 

 ^' remaining parts of the petiole and 2nd segment 



red, the scutellum sometimes yellow ; a band on the petiole and 

 on the middle of the 2nd segment, with the bases of the remaining 

 segments, black ; antennae and legs reddish, each of the former with 

 a spot of black at its apex. 



cJ similar but slighter ; anal segment black. 

 Hah. Egypt ; Senegal (Sauss.) ; ISikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 

 $. Length 17-19; exp. 32-36 mm. c5' . Length 16-18; exp. 

 28-30 mm. 



610. Eumenes conica. (PL II, fig. 9.) 



Veapa conica, Fafjr. Mant. Ins. i, p. 293 ; Ent. Syst. ii, p. 278. 

 Eumenes conica, Fabr. Sg.st. Piez. p. 285 ; Sauss. Mon. Guep. Sol. 

 p. 52, 2 6 ; Smith, Cat. v, p. 22. 



$ . Head, above the antennae, and thorax closely and lightly 



