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gination of the eyes, the posterior marq;ius of abdomuial segments 

 1-3, aud the whole of the apical three above, darker brownish 

 yellow ; the vertex black ; wiugs hyaliue, the radial cell in the, fore 

 wiug brownish yellow. 



Var. Some specimens are paler, others are darker than the 

 above. 



ffab. Dehra Dun : Sahiiranpur ; Sikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 Java; Sumatra. $. Length 14-15; erp. 42 mm. $. Length 

 11-12; exjy. 33-36 mm. 



This is a common species in Burma and Tenasserim. 



696. Vespa magnifica. Smith, Trans. E?it. Soc. new ser. ii, 18o2, 



p. 4o : id. Cat. v, p. 119; Smiss. Mon. Guep. Soc. p. 155, pi. xiii, 

 fig. 3, 2. 



5 . Head above smooth, shining, with one or two scattere 

 punctures : clypeus coarsely punctured; thorax and abdome 

 smooth, with a tine silky lustre; head as wide as the thorax, 

 rather long, compressed anteriorly, the occiput concave ; scutelkim 

 and postscutelluui large, prominent, the former with a medial 

 deeply-impressed line, the latter bulging and overhanging the 

 median segment : beneath the postscutellum is a transverse hollow 

 produced friangularly down from the middle, and continued as a 

 medial furrow to the apex of the median segment. Very dark 

 brown with a golden tint in certain lights ; head aiul scape of the 

 antennae orange ; the sides of the pronotum, two large marks on 

 the mesonotum anteriorly, and a spot under each wing lighter 

 brown; abdomen pruinose, the margins of the segments 1-5 

 and the whole of the 6th yellow ; legs covered with a glistening 

 golden ferruginous pile, the anterior tibiae ferruginous in front ; 

 wines dark fuscous brown. 



Var. a. The whole of the thorax light brown, with a silky 

 golden ferruginous pile ; the base of the 1st abdominal segment 

 dull yellow, with a medial vertical brown streak ; wings much 

 lighter fusco-ferruginous. 



Var. /3. The thorax entirely dark brown, without any of the 

 lighter marks on the pronotum, &c. 



g . Exactly similar, but much smaller, the wings slightly lighter 

 in tint. 



Hab. The Himalayas from Simla to Darjiling; the hills of 

 Assam, Burma, and Tenasserim. 5 . Length 30-35 ; exp. 66- 

 80 mm. ^ . Length 23 ; exp. 60 mm. 



697. Vespa ducalis, Smith, D-ans. Eut. Soc, new ser. ii, 1852, p. 30, $ ; 



Sams. Mon. Guep. Soc. p. 151, 2 $ cJ; Sinith, Cat. v, p. 121. 



2 . Head (except the clvpeus and mandibles), thorax, and 

 abdomen smooth, clypeus and mandibles rugosely punctured : head 

 very large, the cheeks in some specimens enormously dilated ; 

 mesonotum proportionately rather small; scutellam large and 

 very prominent. Dull ochreous yellow ; the space round the ocelli, 



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