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HYMENOPTERA. 



Folistes hebriva, Fubr. Syst. Piez. 2/3. 21. 



St. Farrj. Hym. i. 525. 12. 

 Polistes Macaensis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 272. 12. 



Westw. Ins. Ind. 91. t. 57. f. 4. 

 Vespa imdata, Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 684. 72. 

 Polistes hebr.x'us, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 53, 10. 

 Hab. India; China; Persia; Isle of France. 



G. Polistes orientalis. B.M. 



Cyclostoma orientalis, Kirby, Introd. Ent. in. 633. ed. 1. J . 

 Gyrostoma orientalis, Kirby, Introd. Ent. iii. 631. ed. 5. 

 Hab. India; China. 



7- Polistes confusus. B.M. 



Pohstes orientalis, St. Farg. Hym. i. 519 $ . 



Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 251. 

 Polistes Schach, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 50. 3. 

 Hab. India; China. 



The Polistes C07ifusus is in all probability the female of P. orien- 

 talis ; all the specimens known which agree with Kirby's insect 

 ai'e males. 



8. Polistes hoplites. 



Pohstes hoplites, Sauss. Mon.Gv,epes Soc. 55. 11. & p. 255. 

 Hab. India. 



9. Polistes stigma. B.M. 



Vespa stigma, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 275. 78. 

 Vesjja tamnla, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Siipp. 263. 78, 

 Polistes tamula, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 274. 27. 

 Pohstes stigma, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 261, 41. 

 Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 64. 21. t. 6. f. 3. 



Hab. India; Ceram ; Celebes. (Coll. Madame Ida Pfeiffer.) 



10. Polistes Sagittarius. B.M. 



Polistes Sagittarius, Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc. 56, 12. 



Var. Specimens from Greece have the thorax and second seg- 

 ment of the abdomen ferruginous. 



Hub. India; China; Greece. 



