■'^2 HYMENOPTERA. 



79. EUMENES PICTA. B.M. 



Male. Length 4^ lines. — The head black, the anterior margin 

 of the cly|)ens nott-hed ; the scape in front, the cly])eus and a sj)ot 

 above, and also the mandibles, yellow ; the scape above and the 

 flagellnm ferrnginous, the latter with a black stain above towards 

 the apex. Thorax ferrnginons, the anterior and j)osterior mar- 

 gins of the mesothorax with a black stain ; the anterior margin 

 of the prothorax, a large spot beneath the wings, the sentellum, 

 post-scutellum and metathorax, yellow ; the sentellum at the 

 inferior margin and a triangular stain beneath the post-scutellum 

 ferruginous ; the wings subhyaline, with a yellow stain along the 

 anterior margin of the superior pair, a dark fuscous cloud occu- 

 pying the marginal cell ; the legs yellow, the femora with a fer- 

 ruginous stain above; the thorax beneath, the coxa; and base of 

 the femora more or less, black. Abdomen ferruginous, and 

 covered with a bright changeable pile ; the petiole and base of 

 the second segment of the abdomen black, the latter with a 

 transverse ferruginous band dividing tlie darker part ; the apical 

 margin of the segment narrowly bordered with 3'ellow. 



Hab. St. Domingo. 



This sj)ecies closely resembles Eumenes colona, and both are 

 found in St. Domingo ; but, irrespective of size, the present 

 species has the petiole of a different form, being wider and more 

 convex towards the apex ; the rest of the abdomen is more glo- 

 bose and not subpetiolated as in E. colona. 



80. Eumenes ABDOMiNALis. 



Sphex abdominalis, Drunj, Illustr. Ins. i. t. 45. f. 2. 

 Vespa attenuata, Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 674. 



Fabr. Syst. Ent. 372. 44 ; Spec. Ins. i. 469 ; Mant. Ins. i. 

 2;Kj. 77; Ent. Sijst. ii. 282. 98.^ 

 Polistes attenuatus, Fahr. Syst. Piez. 279. 44. 

 Eumenes abdominalis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 70. 58. 



Hab. Cuba. 



81. Eumenes minuta. 



Eumenes minuta, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 291. 23 (? . 

 Sauss. Man. Gufpes Sol. 39. 14. 



Hab. North America. 



82. Eumenes substricta. 



Eumenes suhstr\cta.,Haldeman,Journ.Acad.Nat.Sc.Philad.n.54. 

 Sauss. Mon. Giu'pes Sol. Supp. 152. 42. 



Hab. North America. 



