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tured ; hinder orbits with a narrow yellow line. Antennas 

 black ; flagellum rather paler and sericeous. Thorax black ; 

 prothorax yellow in front and on the upper part of the sides, 

 but with the part adjoining the head black, very smooth and 

 shining ; mesothorax with two large yellow curved spots on 

 the sides before the middle, and two short subparallel yellow 

 lines just behind the middle ; pleura with a yellow stripe 

 extending from just before the wings nearly to the middle 

 coxas ; scutellum more strongly punctured than the thorax, 

 yellow in front, black behind; postscutellum yellow, slightly 

 edged with black in front; metathorax yellow above and 

 round the rather obtuse angles of the sides below, deeply 

 grooved in the middle, the groove black, the black gradually 

 widening below and more broadly above, below which point 

 a broad slightly oblique bar is thrown out on each side; 

 sides of metathorax black, sericeous ; petiole shaped as in 

 E.flavopicta, Blanch., and allies, basal third black, with a 

 long oval yellow spot on each side, the remainder yellow on 

 the sides, black below, with a yellow spot at the extremity, 

 and connected in the middle with a black lateral spot ; the 

 median line above is mostly black, terminating in a large 

 spot before the extremity, which is also marked with a black 

 spot, trifid in front. Abdomen with the first segment yellow, 

 with black more or less trifid markings at the base and 

 extremity, and with a broad black band, ceasing on the sides, 

 across the middle, with the edges irregularly denticulated ; 

 the remaining segments with the median line black ; the 

 second segment black at the base and yellow at the extre- 

 mity; the third, fourth, and fifth yellow, black at the extre- 

 mity, and the sixth entirely black. Front legs ferruginous, 

 spotted with yellow, and lined with black; four hind legs 

 ferruginous, femora mostly blackish, and tibiae and tarsi lined 

 with black and slightly with yellowish ; last joint of tarsi 

 wholly reddish, except the claws. Wings smoky hyaline. 



Closely allied to E. Jiavopicta, Blanch., but differs in the 

 much longer and narrower clypeus. 



Rhynchium brunneum. 

 Vespa brunnea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 264. n. 41 (1793). 

 A common East-Indian species. 



Vespidae. 



Polistes extraneuSj var. 

 Polistes extraneus, Kirb. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 344. 

 Two females, differing from the typical specimen from 



