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56. Odynerus punctum, BM. 

 Odynerus punctum, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 209. 1 14. 1. 19, f. 2. 

 Hab. India. 



57. Odynerus punctatipennis. B.M. 

 Odynerus punctatipennis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 210. 115. 

 Hab. India. 



68. Odynerus ovalis. B.M. 



Odynerus ovalis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 215. 122. t. 19. f. 4. 

 Hab. India; China. 



59. Odynerus diffinis. 



Odynerus diffinis, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. Supp. 274. 155. 1. 14. 



f. 2$. 

 Hub. India. 



60. Odynerus intricatus. B.M. 

 Male. Length 4^-5 lines. — Ferruginous : the head and thorax 



rugose ; the clypeus deeply emarginate at the apex ; the man- 

 dibles, clypeus and a spot above it, yellow; the apex of the 

 mandibles ferruginous, their teeth black ; a crown-shaped spot 

 on the vertex, enclosing the stemmata; the prothorax in the 

 middle anteriorly, and the tibiae and basal joint of the tarsi, yellow 

 outside; the wings fusco-hyaline, the superior pair with a darker 

 cloud along the anterior margin, occupying and terminating at 

 the marginal cell ; the metathorax rounded, the post-scutellum 

 bituberculate. Abdomen punctured, the punctures rather distant 

 and slightly impressed on the disk of the first and second 

 segments; on their margins and on the following segrnents 

 the punctures are stronger ; a band on the apical margin of 

 the first segment, the sides and apical margin of the second 

 segment, and the whole of the following segments, yellow ; the 

 inner border of the yellow margin at the sides of the second 

 segment semicircular, and the inner border of the apical margin 

 traversed by a black stain ; beneath, the second segment with a 

 black spot on each side, its apical margin bordered with yellow, 

 which is produced in the middle into a quadrate shape ; the third 

 segment with a black spot on each side. 



Hub. Bombay. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



This species is probably the male of 0. punctatipennis ; if not, 

 it is closely allied to it. 



