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XLVI. — An Enunieration of the Ihjmenoptera (FandUes 

 Vespidse, Apidae, and Tenthreduiidae) collected in Dutch 

 New Guinea hi/ the Expeditioji of the British Ornithol" gists* 

 Union. By GEOFFREY Meade-Waldo, M.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The three families dealt witli in the following paper are 

 represented by thirty-two species, five of which are described 

 as new. The genus Icario, to which all five belong, appears 

 to be very strongly represented in New Guinea, no less than 

 nine of the fourteen species of Vespidse, subfamily Vespina>, 

 collected, falling into it. As will be gathered from the 

 localities, all of which are in river-valleys, the species must 

 be regarded as lowland forms. Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston, the 

 collector of all the Hymenoptera taken during the Expe- 

 dition, is to be congratulated on the fine condition of the 

 specimens. The whole collection here enumerated, including 

 the types of the new species, is in the British Museum. 

 All measurements of length are from the front of the head to 

 the apex of the second abdominal segment. 



Family Vespidae, Latr. 



Subfamily Eumenidin.t:, D. T. 



Eumenes, Latr. 



1. Eumenes arcuata, F. 



JEumenes arcuata, F. Syst. Entom. p. 371. no. 40 (1775). 



1 (^,2 ? , AVataikwa River; August, September, 1910. 

 Three examples of the typical form, which occurs through- 

 out the Eastern Archipelago. 



2. Eumenes af/illima (Smith), D. T. 



Eiimpnes rif/ilis, Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc, Zool. iv. Suppl. p. li?7. 

 no. 7 (18G0). 



4 ?, Mimika River; July 1910. 



Described from Amboyna ; also recorded from Ceram 

 {Wallace). 



Rhynchium, Spin. 



3. Rhynchium hannorrhoidale, Y., subsp. medium, ]\Iaindron. 



Jihynchium hcpmorrhoidale, F., subsp. mediuvu Maiiidroii, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. France, (6) ii. p. 278 (1882), pi. v. fig-. 1. 



4 ? , Mimika River; July ll'lO. 



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