of Aculeate Hijmenoptera of Ja 20 an. 197 
Genus Odynerus, Latr. 
1. Odynerus captivus. 
Female. Length 6 lines. Black, Avitli three yellow 
bands on the abdomen. Head : a lunate yellow mark at 
the base of the clypeus, which is sparingly punctured and 
bidentate at its apex. Thorax : the mesothorax with two 
longitudinal impressed lines, which extend to the scutel- 
lum ; there is also an abbreviated line over the tegulsE ; 
the central division between the impressed lines strongly 
punctured ; the lateral divisions very sparingly punctured ; 
wings subhyaline, the nervures black ; the scutellum and 
post-scutellum strongly punctured. Abdomen subpetiolate, 
much narrower than the second segment, and having a 
central impressed line ; the first segment and the base of 
the second closely punctured, the rest of the abdomen 
smooth and shining; the apical margin of the first and 
second segments with a pale yelloAv fascia, the fourth 
with an abbreviated fascia. 
Hab. — Hiogo. 
This species belongs to Wesmael's genus Symmorplius, 
2. Odynerus Letoisii, Sauss. Guepes Sol. (MS.). 
/TaJ. — Hiogo, Hakodadi. 
VESPIDiE. 
Genus Vespa, Linn. 
" 1. Vespa mandarinia, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
New Ser. ii. 38, tab. viii. fig. 1, ? ; Sauss. Mon. Guepes 
Soc. 150. 
Vespa japonica, Eadaschkovski, Etudes Entom. Motsch. 
(1857), 40. 
Hab. — Hakodadi, Hiogo, North China. 
2. Vespa ducalis, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. New 
Ser. ii. 39, $ , ?, 5 ; Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 151. 
Hab. — Hiogo, Hong Kong, Shanghai. 
- 3. Vespa auraria. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. New 
Ser. ii. 46, tab. viii. fig. 8 ; Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 147. 
Vespa similUrna, Smith, Entom. Month. Mag. iv. 
(1867-8), 280, 5 var. 
Hab. — Hakodadi, Hiogo, N. India. 
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