18 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
mandibles red. Thorax with the collar, a spot below, and two nearly united 
spots on the scutellum, yellow ; tegule red ; legs red, middle femora with a 
short black stripe below, followed by a yellow one ; hind femora with a black 
stripe below ; hind tibiz with a yellow stripe behind. Four front tibize with 
a small yellow dash at the base. Abdomen black, the first segment forming 
a short, broad petiole at the base, and expanded at the extremity, the rest 
forming a regular oval ; Ist and 2nd segments with short transverse blood- 
red lateral stripes near the extremity of the first, and the middle of the 
second connected below ; 3rd with longer ones near the base ; 4th uniform 
black, the rest reddish, except the upper part of the 5th. Wings brownish 
hyaline, narrowly infuscated along the costa of the fore-wings. 
Sokotra: Dahamis, XII. 98 ; one specimen. 
Cerceris, Latreille. 
(12) Cerceris lobaba. 
Long. corp. 10 mm. ; long. al. ant. 7 mm. 
Female. Head, thorax and abdomen covered with large depressed 
punctures ; head black, antenne red, blackish above, mandibles red, yellow 
at the base, and black at the tips ; face clothed with silvery pile ; thorax 
black, a curved yellow line on the postscutellum, tegulz and legs red, a black 
dash on the inside of the hind femora at the tip ; abdomen red, first segment 
subquadrate, and only half the width of the second ; incisions, base of Ist 
segment, and base of 5th blackish ; 2nd segment with a yellow spot on each 
side before the extremity ; 3rd and 5th with yellow bands, that of the 
former terminal, expanded on the sides, but interrupted in the middle above : 
that of the latter shorter, sub-terminal narrower, but continuous ; pygidium 
black, lateral carine yellow. Wings clouded hyaline, fore-wings infuscated at 
the tips. 
One specimen from Homhil, E. Sokotra (1500 ft.), 18. I. 99. 
Vespide. 
Eumenine. 
Eumenes, Latreiile. 
(13) Eumenes granti. 
Long. corp. 20 mm. 
Female. Head black behind, and dark brown above, as far as the antenne, 
which are red, brownish above towards the extremity. Hinder orbits 
narrowly yellow ; space between the antenne, sinus in the inner orbits of the 
eyes, and face below, as far as the extremity of the clypeus, yellow ; lower 
mouth parts reddish. Clypeus longer than broad, slightly concave at the 
base, and marked with a black dot below each antenna ; below the eyes, the 
sides converge obliquely towards the extremity, which is more deeply con- 
cave than the base. Pronotum yellow, narrowly and irregularly edged below 
with reddish ; a red dot in front of the base of the wings. Mesonotum dull 
black ; tegule black, bordered below with red ; a short yellow stripe at the 
base of the wings, edged outside by a short black stripe on the base of the 
wings themselves, but not extending to the costa. Scutellum yellow, 
bordered with black, postscutellum and metanotum yellow, the latter 
broadly black in the middle, and the suture with the postscutellum narrowly 
