406 VESPID^. 



dense on the posterior lateral margins of the median segment, the 

 posterior margin broadly o£ the 2nd abdominal segment and very 

 narrowly of segments 3-5, the whole of the 6th and a spot on 

 each side above on segments 2-5, yellow, the spots on the 2nd 

 segment opening anteriorly into the brownish-yellow band at the 

 base ; wings flavo-hyaline, brownish along the costal margin as far 

 as the base of the 1 st cubital cell in the fore wing. 



Var. With the clypeus and face between the antennae, the 

 thorax, and abdomen brown or reddish brown ; the vertex and 

 cheeks, some indistinct shadings on the pro- and mesonotnm, the 

 scutellum, and base of the 1st abdominal segment yellow ; abdominal 

 segments 2-5 with a yellow spot on each side above. 



Hab. India (Smith) ; Kumaun (Miss A. Brook). § . Length 

 25; exj). 56 mm. ^. Length 20 ; e^ij. 50 mm. 



705. Vespa flaviceps, Smith, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii, p. 191, $ & ^ , 

 pi. xxi, fig. 10 5, 11 9. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, with erect black hairs, 

 densest on the front and vertex of the head and apex and sides of 

 the median segment ; clypeus slightly convex, short, roxmded 

 above and on the sides, slightly produced anteriorly, the apex 

 transverse ; the scutellum only slightly raised ; abdomen broad, 

 suddenly acute at apex. Black ; the head except the flagellum of 

 the antennae and a square spot enclosing the [ocelli, the margins 

 of the pronotum, of the scutellum and postscutellum anteriorly, a 

 spot on each side of the apex of the median segment, a spot (m each 

 side under the Mings, a transverse band on the basal three abdominal 

 segments, and all the 4th and 5th, except an ovate black spot on 

 each side, yellow ; legs yellow, variegated with ferruginous ; wings 

 flavo-hyaline. 



9 similar, smaller ; differs in having the scape of the antennae 

 yellow only on the front, the black more extended on the vertex 

 of the head, and the whole of the abdominal segments with broad 

 transverse yellow bands on their apical margins, sometimes also 

 an interrupted yellow line at the base of the 1st abdominal segment ; 

 wings clear hyaline. 



Rab. Binsur, Kumaun ; Sikhim at low elevations ; Tenasserim 

 (rare). ?. Length 11-12; exp. 28-30 mm. §. Length 8-9; 

 exp. 24 mm. 



706. Vespa vivax, Smith, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii, p. 190, pi. xxi, 

 fig. 9, ?. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen covered with long, erect, some- 

 what thickly-set black hairs, beneath this covering the head smooth 

 but not shining; the thorax and abdomen densely pruinose. 

 Black ; the head, the apex of the femora, the tibiae and tarsi, a 

 broad band on the posterior margins of the 1st and 3rd abdominal 

 segments, a very narrow one on the posterior margins of the 

 2ndj 4th, and 5th segments, and the whole of the 6th segment 



