42 HYMENOPTERA. 



6. MONOBIA CYANIPENNIS. 



Odynerus cyanipennis, Guer. Voy. Coq. Ins. 264. t. 9. f. 5. 

 Monobia cyanipennis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 96. 2. 



Hab. Chili (Payta). 



7. MONOBIA EGREGIA. 



Monobia egregia, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. Supp. 168. 60. t.9. f. 5. 

 Hab. West India Islands. 



Genus 13. ABISPA. 



Vespa, pt., Fabr. Syst. Ent. 362 (1775). 

 Odynerus, pt., Guer. Voy. Coq. Ins. 265 (1822-25). 

 Abispa, Mitchell, Exped. East. Austr. i. 104 (1838). 

 Monorebia, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 98 (1852). 



1. ABISPA EPHIPPIUM. B.M. 



Vespa ephippium, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 362. 2 ; Mus. Dom. Banks. ; 

 Mant. Ins. i. 287. 3 ; Ent. Syst. ii. 254. 3 ; Syst. Piez. 254. 3. 



Christ. Hym. 237. 



Oliv. Encycl. MeU. vi. 677. 



Gmelin, Ed. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2748. 36. 

 Abispa ephippium, Mitchell, Exped. East. Austr. i. 104. 



Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2nd ser. 177- 1. 26. f. 1, 2. 



Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. Supp. 170. 

 Monorebia ephippium, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 100. 2. 1. 15. f. 9. 



Hab. Australia. 



2. ABISPA AUSTRALIS. B.M. 



Female. Length 1 inch. This species closely resembles A. 

 splendida, but appears to be intermediate between that species 

 and A. ephippium. From A. splendida it differs in having the 

 head entirely yellow ; the scutellum and post-scutellum yellow ; 

 the metathorax is proportionably longer, its lateral posterior 

 angles are acute, and on each side is a sharp serrated ridge ; the 

 basal segment of the abdomen has the sides less distinctly 

 rounded. From A. ephippium it is distinguished by the colour- 

 ing of the basal segment of the abdomen, which in this species 

 is black, with a broad yellow band on its apical margin which 

 widens at the sides ; the segment is also more campanulate than 

 in A. ephippium, which has the segment entirely yellow. 



Hab. Port Essington. 

 This insect is regarded by Saussure as a variety of A. splendida ; 



