396 TESPID.E. 



Hah. Probably througliout the greater part of India ; Burma ; 

 Teuasseritn ; Cliina. $. Length lb ; e.r^j. 44 mm. $. Length lij ; 

 exp. 40 ]nm. 



690. Polistes stigma. 



Vespa stigma, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 276. 

 Ve.spa tamula, Fabr. Ent. Syd. Su/jpl. p. 263. 

 Polistes tamula, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 274. 



Polistes stigma, Suuns. Mon. Guep. Soc. p. 64, pi. vi, fig. 3 ; Smith, 

 Cat. X, p. 102. 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth ; head and thorax 

 opaque, abdomen slightly shining ; median segment with the 

 medial groove barely marked. Dull ferruginous brown ; the 

 clypeus, mandibles, inner orbit to the sinus, the lower half of 

 the cheeks, and a narrow line along the outer orbit above, the 

 anterior and posterior margins of the prothorax very narrowly, 

 the mesopleura^ except for a medial irregular reddish-brown mark, 

 the postscutellum, two broad longitudinal and apically slightly 

 convergent streaks on the median segment posteriorly, the anterior 

 and intermediate coxae in front and the posterior coxa) behind, the 

 1st abdominal segment except an oval reddish-brown mark in the 

 middle above, and broad transverse bands on the posterior margins 

 of the 3rd and 4th segments, yellow ; wings light ferruginous, the 

 fore wing with a broad subapical fuscous cloud. 



Var. The wings similarly marked, but clear hyaline. 



cJ similar, the vertex blackish ; the 4th abdominal segment 

 entirely yellow. 



g similar, snaaller, the bases of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal 

 segments black. 



Var. a. The two streaks on the median segment absent. 



Far. ft. The whole insect velvety black, the clypeus and scu- 

 tellum fulvous red, the yellow markings on the head and face and 

 on the mesopleurse and coxae wanting; abdomen black, with the 

 posterior and lateral margins of the 1st and the posterior margin 

 of the 4th segment only yellow, the posterior femora dull red ; 

 wings hyaline, with the usual subapical fuscous cloud on the fore 

 wing. 



Bab. Simla ; Delhi ; Allahabad ; Barrackpore ; Bombay ; Ban- 

 galore ; Madras; Ceylon; Burma; Tenasserim, extending to the 

 Malayan region. §. Length 13-14; e.ip. 32 mm. (j" . Length 

 11 ; e^ip. 28 mm. ^ . Length 10-11 ; ex-p. 24 mm. 



691. Polistes maculipennis, Sauss. Mon. Guep. Soc. p. 61, pi. vi, fig. 4 ; 



Smith, Cat. v, p. 103. 



^ , Head above, the pro- and mesonotum, and scutellum finely 

 punctured, with a granular appearance ; clypeus with only a few 

 scattered punctures ; median segment with a medial broad groove 

 slightly transversely striate, shining ; abdomen smooth and silky. 

 Head, the mesonotum, median segment, pectus, sides of the thorax, 

 and base of the abdomen black ; the mandibles, the clypeus in the 

 middle, the cheeks, the pronotum, scutellum, legs, and abdomen 



