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PSYCHE. 



[May 1893. 



AN UNDESCRIBED SPECIES OF VESPA. 



BY J. W. SHIPP. 



Assistant in the Entomological Department Oxford University Museum. 



Having lately been occupied in ar- 

 ranging the wasps contained in the 

 Hope Saunders and Smith's collection 

 I have come across a curious species 

 which has not been mentioned by either 

 Saussure or McFarland, so I venture to 

 describe it here as a new species in 

 honor of Professor Westwood through 

 whose kindness I am able to devote my 

 time to the study of entomology. 



This is the only true Vespa which I 

 know whose colors are bright dark red 

 and black, and although it somewhat 

 resembles V. sylvestris\\\ general facies, 

 it differs essentially from it both in color 

 and the style of markings. It should be 

 placed in the second division of the 

 genus, viz., that in which the eyes ex- 

 tend to the base of the mandibles. 



Vespa tvest-woodii Shipp. Black. Head; 

 mandibles with the exception of teeth, a trape- 



BRIEF NOTES ON TWO JAMAICA 

 PAPILIONIDAE. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Synchloe joppa. — July 14, 1892, I saw a 

 female ovipositing on a sweet scented sticky 

 Cleome, having a hairy stem, the leaf with five 

 hairy or pubescent leaflets. The egg was laid 

 on the under side of the leaf near the tip. Egg 

 about 1 mm. high, long, cylindrical, shiny 

 pale yellow, truncate above, with twelve 

 strong vertical ribs and numerous small 

 weak transverse riblets. It was not attached 

 other than by the secretion of the hairs of 

 the plant; from the abundance of glutinous 



zoidal spot above clypeus, clypeus with the 

 exception of a broad longitudinal mark» 

 widening at apex, the sinus of the eyes, a spot 

 close to mandibles on the cheeks, and another 

 longer one above, behind the eyes, red; an- 

 tennae dull black, a line on the margin of 

 the mesothorax at the sides of prothorax, 

 tegulae, two spots, one on each side of scu- 

 tellum, two on the post-scutellum and a spot 

 under the anterior wings, red. Abdomen 

 black, first segment with a broad, red apical 

 band, narrowing in centre; second with a 

 broadish red band irregular, widening greatly 

 at the sides, giving the idea of three spots 

 run together ; apical segment red with a black- 

 ish reflection, bands continued underneath ; 

 coxae and trochanters all black, femora black, 

 knees red, tibiae red with a black patch in the 

 centre of the inner margin; tarsi red with a 

 golden pubescence, wings with a slightyellow 

 tint, larger nervures with a decided reddish 

 tint. Eyes extending to base of mandible. 



Hab. N. Amer. Bor. Type in Ox. 

 Univ. Museum. 



hairs on the leaf it would be hard to attach 

 it in any other way. 



Papilio pelaus. — Larvae about to pupate 

 found on Prickly Yellow, July 13, 1892. 

 About 4 cm. long, stout, cylindrical, but first 

 and last two body segments smaller. Head 

 shiny brown with a whitish spot on each side 

 of crown anteriorly. Body dark brown. A 

 pair of short subdorsal tubercles on each of 

 the four first body segments those on the 

 first ocherous ; side of body with a broad 

 dash of creamy white marbled with gray on 

 5~7th body segments and some of the same 

 color on sides of 10th and nth segments. 

 Abdominal legs pale gray, blotched exter- 

 nally with darker. Thoracic legs brown. 



