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median segment and abdomen smooth, the former slightly pubes- 

 cent ; clypeus convex, about twice 

 as long as broad, anteriorly emar- 

 ginate with a small tooth on each 

 side ; vertex of head and front rather 

 flat ; petiole of abdomen almost linear, 

 without tubercles beneath. Ferru- 

 ginous red ; the clypeus, mandibles, 

 and labrum, a short line on the 

 middle of the pronotum, a streak 

 on each side on the middle of the 

 petiole, two subapical spots on the 

 ■pig. 98. same above, and a broad band on the 



Eumenesedwardsii,2- #• posterior margin of the 2nd abdo- 

 minal segment yellow ; the clypeus 

 with silvery pile ; the vertex of the head, the raesonotum, and the 

 middle of the petiole above more or less black ; legs with a 

 yellow streak on the tibise ; 3rd and following abdominal segments 

 a brighter ferruginous red than tlie rest of the body ; wings 

 hyaline, lightly ferruginous along the costal margin of the fore wing 

 and with a very faint fuscous spot in the radial cell of the same. 



c5' similar, the sinus of the eyes yellow, the mesonotum entirely 

 black. 



Hab. Bombay; North-West Provinces; Burma; Tenasserira, 

 2 . Length 16 ; e.rp. 25 mm. d • Length 16 ; e.vp. 26 mm. 



613. Enmenes flavopicta, Blanch. Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat., Ins. Hytn. 

 pi. ii, fig. 2 ; Sauss. Mon. Guep. Sol. p. 65, $ ; Smith, Cat. v, 

 p. 22. 

 2 . Head and thorax with large shallow, rather widely placed 

 punctures, except on the disc of the mesonotum, where they are 

 closer and deeper, with a tendency to run into longitudinal striae ; 

 abdomen opaque, the surface finely aciculate; clypeus subpyri- 

 form, the apex widely truncate, raised at base and sides and then 

 suddenly flattened and depressed ; petiole of abdomen long, gently 

 broadening towards the apex, slightly vertically compressed along 

 its length. Black, shining ; the head yellow with a black some- 

 what cowl-shaped mark on the vertex, or in a common form black 

 with the clypeus, the front, the sinus of the eyes, aud a line 

 behind them yellow ; thorax with the pronotum in front, the 

 tegula? (except a spot in the middle, sometimes absent), a small 

 spot before and behind each of them, two scythe-shaped marks 

 back to back on the mesonotum, a transverse rectangular mark 

 on the scutellum, a curved line on the postscutellum, the median 

 segment, and the flanks yellow, the last with a broad oblique line, 

 and the median segment with a medial vertical line broadening 

 above, black ; legs yellow and black ; abdomen with two spots at the 

 base, two lateral in the middle, and a subapical band on the petiole. 



