VESPA. 



407 



yellow ; a black ring-like mark on the front of the head, broad \\ here 

 it passes over the ocelli, sligbtly extended 

 into the emargination of the eyes laterally, 

 and reduced to a tine line above the base 

 of the clypeus ; the scape and basal joint 

 of the flagellum of the antenna? beneath 

 yellow ; the broad yellow band on the 

 margin of the 3rd abdominal segment is 

 broadly emarginate on each side on its 

 anterior border and has a narrow triangular 

 incision in the middle ; wings brownish 

 hyaline. 



Hah. Binsur,Kumaun; Northern India; 

 Sikhim, 8000 feet (rare). $. Lev/jth 

 18-20 ; exp. 50-52 mm. 



Fig. 126. 

 Ves2)a vivax, 2 • t. 



707. Vespa auraria, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1852, p. 46, pi. viii, 

 tig. 8, 2 ; Sauss. Mo:i. Guep. Soc. p. 147 ; Smith, Cat. v, p. 119. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, with a fine silky 

 appearance and sparsely scattered erect hairs; the vertex and 

 front of the head and mesonotum sparsely punctured. Golden 

 browQ with, in certain lights, a rich glistening pile ; the head, pro- 

 notum, and scutellum reddish brown ; mesonotum a darker brown 

 with a U-shaped mark on the disc, posteriorly touching the 

 scutellum, of brighter golden brown ; the bases of the 1st and 2nd 

 abdominal segments brown, their margins and the visible part of 

 the remaining segments covered with a rich golden pile ; wings 

 brownish hyaline. 



5 very similar, smaller : the posterior margins of the 1st and 

 2nd abdommal segments narrowly yellow : the 3rd yellow, with an 

 irregular mark at base above, nearly reaching the posterior margin in 

 the middle, brown ; the 4th entirely yellow except for a very narrow 

 medial longitudinal brown line ; the 5th yellow at base, irregularly 

 festooned with brown along the posterior margin ; the 6th entirely 

 brown. 



Hah. Xorthern India (Smith); Kumaun (Miss A. Brook)- 

 Tenasserim. $, Length 21; e.v^). 40 mm. ^. Length 15-17; 

 exp. 36-38 mm. 



