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them, an interrupted line on the pronotum, the tegulfe, a spot 

 on the mesopleiiriB, a submargiual transverse band on abdominal 

 segments 1-5, and lateral spots on the 1st and 2nd ventral 

 segments, yellow ; the sides of the median segment posteriorly 

 narrowly rufescent ; legs black variegated with yellow, the tarsi 

 reddish ; wings fusco-hyaline and iridescent. 



Var. With the yellow markings much reduced and more or less 

 obsolete, especially on the abdomen. 



Hah. Pundaloya (Green), Ceylon. 2 • Length 10 ; ex2). 22 mm. 

 S unknown. 



654. Odynerus humbertianus, Sauss, Novara-Reise, Hym. p. 18,$ S- 



5 . Head thorax, and basal three segments of the abdomen 

 coarsely and closely punctured, rest of the abdomen smooth ; 

 clypeus very long and pyriform, margined off by a carina on each 

 side and longitudinally rugose striate between the carinas ; median 

 segment with a broad sulcation down the middle which is not 

 smooth but punctured, the apex below with a longish spinous tooth 

 on each side ; abdomen with the basal segment narrowed, the 2nd 

 segment with a conspicuous conical elevation close to the base in 

 the middle above, and a smaller one submarginally on each side. 

 Black, in certain lights appearing covered with a thin cinereous pile ; 

 the base of the mandibles, a line on each side of the clypeus at base, 

 a spot (sometimes a vertical line) above the clypeus, the emargi- 

 nation of the eyes, a line behind them, two contiguous spots on the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum, a spot on the posterior part of 

 the tegulae, a spot at the lateral angles of the scutellum, sometimes 

 absent, a line on the postscutellum, the apical teeth on the median 

 segment, a transverse band on the apical margins of the basal two 

 abdominal segments, with two contiguous spots or an abbreviated 

 line on the posterior margins of the 4th and 5th segments in the 

 middle above, yellow; legs reddish or black variegated with yellow; 

 wings hyaline and iridescent. 



(S similar ; clypeus without carinas, bidentate at apex and yellow ; 

 6th segment also with an interrupted margiual yellow line.* 



Hah. Udagama, Ceylon {Green); Sikhim {Mailer); Burma; 

 Tenasserim. A common species. $ . Length 8-10; eocp. 18-22 mm. 

 S . Length 7-8 ; exp. 16-19 mm. 



655. Odynerus bnrmanicus, n. sp. 



2 . Perm stouter and broader in proportion to length ihan any 

 Odynerus known to me. Head, thorax, and abdomen punctured, 

 closely and coarsely so on the head and thorax, moi-e sparsely 

 with the punctures more shallow on the bases of the abdominal 



* Maindron describes a species unknown to me briefly as follows: — 

 " Odj/ncrus ponfireria7>us. Niger, nitidus, grossis punctia, toto corpore 



corrugato. Alis liyalinis. Abdominis segmentis primo atque secundo tenuis 



vittis flaviscentibus inarginalis. 



" Hub. Pondicheri. Long. 7 mm."— Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. 1882, Bull. p. xv, § J. 



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