346 EUMENiD.i;. 



a broad bar with irregular margins at base of 2nd segment, 

 another broad snbapical bar on its posterior margin, and broad 

 transverse medially interrupted subapieal bands on the remaining 

 segments, yellow ; beneath the abdomen is black, the 2nd ventral 

 segment with a yellow spot on each side ; wings dark tlavo-hyaline, 

 with a slightly fuscous tinge and purplish effulgence. 



d similar, but slighter, with comparatively a longer petiole. 

 Hab. Sikhim ; Bengal ; Malabar ; Mysore ; Madras ; Ceylon ; 

 Burma ; and Tenasserim. § . Length 23-25 ; e.V2^. 46-50 mm, 

 6 . Length 19-22 ; eny. 45-48 mm. 



614. Eumenes arcuata. 



Vespa arcuata, Fabr. St/st. Ent. p. 371 ; id. Eat. Syst. ii, p. 276. 

 Euuieues arcuata, Fabr. Sijst. Piez. p. 237 ; Sauss. Mon. Giiep. Sol. 

 p. 63, 5 ; Smith, Cat. \, p. 29. 



5 . Vertex of the head and the thorax with fine but shallow 

 punctures ; petiole and abdomen smooth, the surface finely acicu- 

 late ; the clypeus pyriforra, the apex sharply truncate ; pronotum 

 anteriorly transverse; the median segment with an impressed 



medial vertical hne ; the petiole long, 

 narrow, only slightly broadening 

 towards the apex ; the base of the 

 following abdominal segment con- 

 stricted. Head cind thorax black; 

 the clypeus, the space between the 

 j antennae, a line behind the eyes, the 

 pronotum in front, two curved spots 

 and two parallel longitudinal lines 

 on the disc of the mesonotum, a 

 broad outer border to the tegulse, a 

 Fio-. 99. spot on each side on the scutellum, a 



Ewncnen arcuata, $ . \. broad line on the posterior margin 



of the postscutellum, and a bi-oad 

 oblique line on the flanks under the base of each wing yellow ; 

 legs black, variegated with yellow ; median segment yellow, with a 

 broad medial mark, in the shape of a Maltese cross, black ; abdomen 

 black, two small lateral spots at the base of the petiole, and two 

 about the middle, with a subapieal band at the apex of the same above, 

 two large pyriform spots near the base of the 2ud segment, and 

 subapieal bands on the posterior margins of the 2ud and following 

 segments, yellow ; these bands interrupted narrowly above and 

 broadlv below ; the 2nd segment has also two minute lateral spots 

 on the middle beneath ; wings very light brownish or fusco- 

 hyaline, 



6 similar, but smaller and slighter, with the anal segment 

 entirely black. The depth of the yellow markings varies in 

 different individuals. 



Hah. Throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon, not extending up 

 the Himalayas to any height, but spread generally through the 



V 



