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  Mr. 
  G. 
  Meade- 
  Waldo 
  on 
  

  

  Smith's 
  species 
  appears 
  as 
  P. 
  enxius 
  in 
  Dalla 
  Torre, 
  ' 
  Cata- 
  

   logus 
  Hymenopterum/ 
  vol. 
  ix. 
  Vespidse, 
  p. 
  163. 
  The 
  type 
  

   of 
  P: 
  enxuy 
  bears 
  the 
  label 
  in 
  his 
  handwriting, 
  the 
  specific 
  

   name 
  being 
  the 
  vernacular 
  term 
  for 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  South 
  

   America 
  (vide 
  Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Lond. 
  (3) 
  i. 
  6, 
  p. 
  501). 
  

  

  Polybia 
  bifasciata, 
  Sauss. 
  

  

  Polybia 
  bifasciata, 
  Sauss. 
  Etud. 
  fam. 
  Vesp. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  172. 
  no. 
  7 
  (1853). 
  

   Polybia 
  quadricincta, 
  Sauss. 
  Etud. 
  fain. 
  Vesp. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  173. 
  no. 
  8 
  (1853). 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  P. 
  bifasciata 
  determined 
  by 
  Ducke 
  is 
  

   certainly 
  identical 
  with 
  P. 
  quadricincta, 
  Sm., 
  with 
  the 
  type 
  

   of 
  which 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  compared. 
  Ducke 
  has 
  doubtless 
  seen 
  

   the 
  type 
  of 
  P. 
  bifasciata 
  in 
  the 
  Paris 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Polybia 
  (Parapolybia) 
  sumatrensis, 
  Sauss. 
  

  

  Polybia 
  (Parapolybia) 
  sumatrensis, 
  Sauss. 
  Rev. 
  et 
  Mag. 
  Zool. 
  (2) 
  vii. 
  

  

  p. 
  374 
  (1855). 
  

   Icaria 
  sulciscutis, 
  Cam. 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  Lond. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  30 
  (1901). 
  

   learia 
  rubriscutis, 
  Cam. 
  MS. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Schulz, 
  in 
  f 
  Spolia 
  Hymenopterologica/ 
  places 
  Icaria 
  

   sulciscutis, 
  Cam., 
  described 
  from 
  Singapore, 
  in 
  the 
  right 
  

   genus. 
  

  

  There 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  P. 
  sumatrensis, 
  Sauss., 
  the 
  

   type 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  with 
  which 
  

   Cameron's 
  species 
  have 
  been 
  carefully 
  compared, 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  

   species. 
  

  

  Polybia 
  (Parapolybia) 
  orient 
  alls, 
  Sauss. 
  

  

  Polybia 
  (Paraptolybia) 
  orientalis, 
  Sauss. 
  Mon. 
  Guep. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  208 
  

  

  (1853). 
  

   Icaria 
  fuscipennis, 
  Cam. 
  Ann. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  (7) 
  vol. 
  vi. 
  p. 
  501 
  

  

  (1900). 
  

  

  I. 
  fuscipennis, 
  Cam., 
  from 
  the 
  Khasia 
  Hills, 
  is 
  certainly 
  

   nothing 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  colour-variety 
  of 
  P. 
  orientalis, 
  from 
  

   which 
  species 
  it 
  differs 
  (a) 
  by 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  the 
  longitudinal 
  

   yellow 
  stripes 
  on 
  the 
  mesonotum, 
  (b) 
  the 
  yellow 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   of 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  3 
  and 
  4 
  forms 
  a 
  continuous 
  band 
  

   both 
  dorsally 
  and 
  ventrally, 
  and 
  is 
  not 
  broken 
  dorsally 
  as 
  in 
  

   P. 
  orientalis. 
  The 
  general 
  ground-colour 
  also 
  is 
  more 
  choco- 
  

   late-brown 
  than 
  in 
  that 
  species, 
  and 
  the 
  antennse 
  darker. 
  

  

  Polybia 
  (Parapolybia) 
  per 
  sica, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  2 
  . 
  Nigra, 
  pallide 
  tlavo 
  variegata 
  ; 
  mesothorace 
  unicolori, 
  abdominis 
  

   segmentis 
  flavis 
  apice 
  fasciatis 
  ; 
  petiolo 
  gracillimo. 
  

  

  