24 HYMENOPTERA. 



transverse yellow line in the middle of its posterior margin ; a 

 curved yellow spot on each side of the second segment beneath. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. A. R. Wallace.) 



26. EUMENES FULVIPENNIS. B.M. 



Female. Length 12 lines. Black, with the wings pale red- 

 dish-yellow; of the size and form of E. arcuatus. The head 

 and thorax closely and rather strongly punctured, very slightly 

 shining ; the labrum brown ; the clypeus has the anterior mar- 

 gin slightly notched ; the wings, with the nervures, ferruginous ; 

 the petiole smooth and shining ; the rest of the abdomen sub- 

 opake ; on each side of the petiole are two small indistinct pale 

 oval spots ; the legs black, with the claw-joint of the tarsi ferru- 

 ginous. 



The male closely resembles the female, and only differs in being 

 rather smaller, and in having an obscure ferruginous stripe on the 

 clypeus. 

 Hab. Celebes. (Coll. Madame Ida Pfeiffer.) 



27. EUMENES INFLEXA. 



Eumenes inflexus, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. Supp. 145. 33 $ . 

 Hab. Probably Asiatic. 



28. EUMENES PUNCTATA. B.M. 

 Eumenes punctata, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 37. 10. 



Hab. China. 



29. EUMENES DECORATA. B.M. 

 Eumenes decoratus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. n. ser. ii. 36. 



Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. Supp. 138. 22 J . 



Hab. North China (Tern-Tung). 



30. EUMENES QUADRATA. B.M. 

 Eumenes quadratus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. n. ser. ii. 37. 

 Hab. North China (Ning-po-Foo). 



31. EUMENES IMPERATRIX. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black : the head covered with 

 large shallow confluent punctures; the clypeus with the basal 

 half yellow ; the scape in front, a spot between the antennae and 

 a line running from it up to the anterior stemma, yellow ; the 

 flagellum fulvous beneath ; a narrow yellow indistinct line behind 



