354 ETJMEWID^. 



624. Rhynchmm moUeri, n. sp. (PI. II, fig. 11.) 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen densely punctured, the punc- 

 tures shallow and not so well marked at the bases of the abdominal 

 segments, which when drawn out have the extreme base smooth ; 

 clypeus slightly raised, broad, wedge-shaped, the apex transverse, 

 slightly and widely emarginate ; antennal carina short, very fine 

 and narrow ; postscutellum not very prominent ; median segment 

 depressed beneath it, vertical, concavo-truncate posteriorly, M'ith a 

 medial vertical carina aiid faint oblique striae on the face of the 

 truncation, the sides not angularly produced back ; abdomen with 

 the basal segment distinctly narrower than the 2ud, its apical 

 margin slightly constricted. Head black, the clj^peus fulvous red, 

 two spots between the antennse yellow, the antennse and the 

 greater part of the thorax and median segment brownish red ; the 

 mesonotum anteriorly, a broad irregular U-shaped mark on its 

 disc, the sutures between the scutellum, the postscutellum, and 

 median segment, with the sides of the thorax, except the tubercles, 

 black ; legs red ; wings light cupreous brown and iridescent. 



Hah. Sikhim. 5 . Length 14-16 ; ea-p. 30-33 mm. d" un- 

 known. Type in coll. British Museum. 



625. Rhynchium cupreipenne, Bingh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 



p. 387, $ , pi. i, tig. 3. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen coarsely and very closely punc- 

 tured, the punctures with a tendency to run into strise on the 

 thorax ; clypeus pyriform, truncate anteriorly, with two minute 

 teeth ; postscutellum prominent ; median segment depressed verti- 

 cally under the postscutellum, concavo-truncate, the sides produced 

 and sharply angular, the truncation with a medial vertical carina 

 and fine oblique striae ; abdomen with the basal segment naiTovi'er 

 than the 2ad, the latter both long and broad, the posterior 

 margins of all the segments narrowly smooth. Black ; the clypeus, 

 except a black mark in the middle, a large round spot above it on 

 the front, the antennae, a broad stripe behind the eyes, the apex of 

 the anterior femora, the tibiae and tarsi, the inner side of the 

 intermediate and posterior femora, and the last joints of the tarsi 

 orange-yellow ; the inside of the tibiae and tarsi of the posterior 

 legs clothed with rich golden pubescence ; wings cupreous brown 

 with bright iridescent tints in certain lights, nervures and tegulae 

 black. 



Hah. Tavoy, South Tenasserim. $ . Length 14 ; exjp. 34 mm. 

 6 unknown. Type in coll. British Museum. 



626. Rhynchmm haBmorrhoidale. 



Vespa hasmorrhoidalis, Fabr. Si/st. Ent. p. 366. 



Odvnerus dimidiatus, Guer. Voy. BManger, Zool. p. 503, Atlas, 



ins. pi. iv, fig. 4. 

 Eygchium hfemori-hoidale, Sauss. Mon. Guep. Sol. p. 109. 

 HvgcliiTim pareutissimum, Sauss. Mon. Guep. Sol. p. HI. 

 Rbyncbium liiBmorrhoidale, Sauss. Mon. Guep. Sol. Suppl. p. 172 ; 



Smith, Cat. v, p. 44. 



