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EUMENID.i:. 



punctured; abdomen smooth and shining, with the surface mi- 

 nutely aciculate; clypeus pyrit'orin, its apex truncate, the space 

 between the antennae raised and parting into two divergent carinas 

 towards the ocelli ; pronotum transverse anteriorly ; median seg- 

 ment with a medial vertically-impressed line, widening at the apex 

 of the segment into a deep hollow ; petiole subcylindrical, con- 

 siderably thickened towards the apex ; 2nd segment of the abdomen 

 constricted at base, and having a wide, somewhat deep channel on 

 its ventral side. Head yellow, the mandibles and antenna) reddish, 

 a broad transverse band across the apex between the tops of the 

 eyes black ; thorax and abdomen dark red, the legs paler (some- 

 times yellowish) ; a medial longitudinal line on the mesonotum 

 anteriorly, a transverse narrow line at its apex, the base of the 

 2nd abdominal segment, and a short transverse medially inter- 

 rupted band on its middle above, black ; wing dark flavo- or fusco- 

 hyaline, \\ith a slight ])arpHsh effulgence. 



(S similar, but smaller and slighter ; the apex of the clypeus 

 emarginate ; the scape of the antennae in front yellow ; the cheeks 

 black, with a narrow yellow line next the outer orbits, the base in 

 the middle above of abdominal segments 3-5 and the anal segment 

 black. 



Hab. Throughout the plains of India, Burma, and Ceylon, 

 extending to China and the Malayan region, 5 . Length 23-25 ; 

 exp. 40-44 mm. S- Length 18-20; exp. 38-40 mm. 



E. saundersii, Nietn., from the brief notice given of it in 

 the Trans. Ent. Soc. 1834, pp. 60-62, I take to be the above 

 species. 



611. Eumenes elegans, Smiss. Mon. Guep. Sol. p. 58, $ ; Smith, Cat. 



V, p. 25. 



5 . Head and thorax thinly pubescent ; clypeus shining, ante- 

 riorly emarginate. Ferruginous ; a band between the eyes on the 

 vertex, the mesonotum, the base of the petiole, and a broad band 

 on the 2nd abdominal segment black ; the posterior angles of the 

 petiole and a band on the apical margin of the 2ud abbomiual 

 segment yellow ; legs ferruginous ; wings hyaline, ferruginous at 

 their base, brownish fuscous with violet effulgence on their apical 

 two-thirds. 



Hah. Djidda, Arabia ; India (Saussure). $ . Length 20 ; exp. 

 38 mm. cJ unknown. 



I have not seen this species in any Indian collection, nor is 

 it in either of the two collections I have examined from 

 Aden. 



612. Eumenes edwardsii, Sauss. Mon. Guep. Sol. p. 60, $ ; Smith, 



Cat. V, p. 22. 



5 . The vertex of the head and the mesonotum rather closely, 

 pronotum, scutellum, and postscutellum more sparsely punctured ; 



