350 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. X, 



Type.— C^i. No. 1725, U. S. National Museum. 



The writer has collected nests of this species in western 

 Kansas. They were one-celled globular earthen nests, char- 

 acteristic of this genus and were found singly attached to weed 

 stems. 



Eumenes smithii Saussure. 



Eumenes smithii Saussure, Henri de, Etud. Fam. Vcspid., vol. 1, 1S52, p. 43, 

 pi. 10, fig. 1; Smithson, Miscl. Coll. No. 254, 1875, p. 104-105. 



All records of this species and all specimens I have seen 

 are from Florida. 



Type.— British Museum of Natural History (according to 

 Saussure) . 



Nothing has been recorded previously in regard to the nest 

 of smithii. . In the National Museum is a nest collected by 

 Hubbard labeled Cres City, Fla., from which a wasp of this 

 species was reared. It is a globular earthen nest, with a jug-like 

 mouth, typical of the wasps of this genus. The surface is more 

 granular than that of the nests oi fraternus and small lumps of 

 earth give it a roughened appearance. It is attached to the 

 lower side of a leaf. 



Eumenes belfragei Cresson. 



Eumenes belfragei Cresson, E. T., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., vol. 4, 1872, p. 232. — 

 Hartman, Carl, Jour. Animal Behavior, vol. 3, 1913, p. 353-360. 



Female. — -Length, IG.o mm.; wing, 11.5 mm. Clypeus as long as 

 wide, lateral angles comparatively near the apex, apical emargination 

 angular, surface deeply punctate; head slightly convex above; thorax 

 slightly rounded in front, sides convex; median furrow in propodeum 

 deep; petiole pyriform, never as wide as at the apex, margins of tcrgite 

 usually meeting vcntrally, completely obliterating the sternite except at 

 the apex, no carinas bordering the margins, punctations on ventral 

 aspect not attaining the margin, except at the apex; second segment of 

 the gastcr convex, longer than wide, dorsal line before angle strongly 

 curved forward; punctations on head and thorax confluent, less dense 

 on gaster. Largely ferruginous; dorsal aspect of the head, tips of 

 flagella, a spot near the upper middle of the clypeus, mesonotum, lateral 

 aspect of the thorax, basal line on metanotum, inediaw furrow of the 

 prepodium, basal end of the petiole, basal and central aspect of tcrgite 

 of the second segment of the gaster, black, eyes dull brownish; clypeus, 

 ridge between the antenna?, anterior cmargination of the eyes, a post- 

 ocular line, anterior margin of the prothorax, a large spot below the 

 tegulae, anterior margin of the scutcllum, metanotum, a large oblique 

 spot on each side of the propodeum, apical margin of the petiole, elongate 

 oblique spots on either side of the second segment of the gaster meeting 



