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the entire median segment, with the exception of two black 

 pipe-shaped marks placed back to back, a band on the apex 

 of segments 1-5 broadening laterally, apical half of segment 6 

 totally, ventral surface of segments 1-5 (with exception of a 

 small black spot on each side of segments 2-5), an oval mark 

 on segment 6, the legs entirely, sulphur-yellow. 



Apex of mandibles, flagellum of antennae above, a spot on 

 the tegulse ferrugineous. Vertex, pronotum in front, covered 

 with a short dense pile. 



Wings clear hyaline, a slight shade of fuscous in radial 

 cell, the nervures fuscous. The clypeus deeply emarginate 

 at the apex, broadly subtriangular ; pronotum rounded in 

 front; scutellum very prominent, rounded, covering the 

 postscutellum ; median segment truncate, rounded. 



Abdomen elongate-ovate, slender. Punctured; the clypeus, 

 vertex, and thorax coarsely, scutellum very coarsely, median 

 segment very finely rugulose, the abdomen more finely 

 punctured. 



Total length 8 mm. 



Hab. S.W r . Persia (Escalera) ; 4 ? . 



This species seems very nearly allied to J. chlorotica, Mor., 

 from Transcaspia, but differs in several respects. The ventral 

 surface of J. chlorotica is black, whereas the general colouring 

 of the ventral surface of J. escalera is sulphur-yellow, and 

 there are other conspicuous differences in coloration. The 

 disparity in size is also worthy of note, J. escalera being a 

 considerably larger species. 



Eumenidse, West wood. 



Rhaphidoglossa, S. S. Saunders. 



Rhaphidoglossa punctata, sp. n. 



^ . Black ; the clypeus, a transverse spot between the 

 eves, the lower angle of the sinus of eyes, scape of antennas 

 beneath, a line on anterior margin of pronotum broken in 

 the middle, two small spots on postscutellum, two spots 

 rather larger on each side of apex of median segment, a 

 small triangular mark on each side of first abdominal seg- 

 ment, second abdominal segment distinctly, segments 3-6 

 more obscurely marked with transverse lines on apical 

 margin, tibiae on outside, creamy yellow. Apical margin of 

 second abdominal segment on ventral surface creamy yellow. 

 Mandibles at the apex, segments 2, 3, 4 of the antennae, a 

 spot behind each eye, tegulae, a minute spot on mesopleurae 

 on each side, an arched carina on the extreme apex of first 



