collected in Madeira and Tenerife. 211 



silvery hairs, vertex rather densely with short greyish-white ones, 

 those on the cheeks behind the eyes short and silvery* Mesonotum 

 clothed with short greyish hairs with a narrow central keel posteriorly, 

 extending on to the scutellnm, tegulaj and bases of wing-nerves 

 bright testaceous, rest of neuration brown — postscutellum longitudi- 

 nally strigose, lamellas pale ; legs black, anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 except the former posteriorly, in both sexes, and all the tarsi in the 

 (J , testaceous, bases of the intermediate and posterior tibiaj flavous, 

 the pale colour more extensive in the ^ ; calcaria pale, intermediate 

 and posterior tarsi black in the $ , posterior metatarsi piceous in the ^ , 

 propodeal spine short, widened and emavginate at the apex, central 

 area shining, more or less diagonally rugose on each side, lateral 

 areas dull, with irregular transverse rugosities, sides shining, trans- 

 versely strigose ; abdomen more shining in the $ than in the (^ , 

 strongly jounctured, clothed with grey adpressed pubescence, especi- 

 ally in the ^, puncturation of the basal segment slightly larger 

 and less close than on the following, ^ with a narrow trans- 

 verse yellow spot on each side of the apical margin of the first 5 

 segments, these become longer and more band-like as the segments 

 approach the apex, in the $ the spots are paler and only occur on 

 tlie first 2 or 3 segments ; in the ^ the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th 

 segments have a sliort testaceous spine-like tooth at the posterior 

 angle. 



Long. 5—7 mm. 



Orotava, Tenerife, several $ and $, 20. iii. 02. 



Vespa germanica, Fab. 



^. Monte Funclial, Madeira, above the Church, at 



about 2000 feet altitude, visiting Scrojjhu- 



laria, two or three examples at the same 



individual plant, 4. iii. 02. 



^ 1. Funchal, altitude 3000 feet (E. S. Goodrich, 



in Hope Collection), 3. i. 01. 

 $2^2. Madeira. T.V.W. 



^ 6. Orotava, Tenerife, March and April 1902. 

 F. A. Bellamy. 



The black on the abdomen of some of Mr. 

 Bellamy's specimens is very extensive, quite 

 as much so as in dark examples of Vesjja 

 vulgaris. 



POLISTES GALLICUS, L. 



? 3. Madeira. T.V.W. 



