Genera and Species of Hymenoptera, 4 1 1 



liavinpj the eyes " very .small, scparatetl from the base of thti 

 mandibles by more than two thirds of their own len;.^th," 

 they being iiere separatcil by one third only or by the leii;^th 

 of the three mandibular teeth ; in schack there are only two 

 teeth, and it bears no black markings. Saussure (' Vespides/ 

 i. p. 104) says that the mandibles of the male are " tres fortes, 

 longues ct arquees, .... leiir base trfes epaisse, arniee d'une 

 forte dent dirigee en detlans," which is certainly not the case 

 in our species, in which they are broad at the base, slightly 

 obliquely narrowed towards the apex. The clypeus is quite 

 flat, not convex ; the sides at the top are broadly rounded ; 

 the centre is transverse ; the occiput is sharply margined. 



Poli'stes gallicuSj Fabr. 



This common European species may be added to the 

 Indian fauna. I have seen an example from Gilgit. It 

 belongs to the European form, not to the Eastern Asian var. 

 chiuensi's, Fabr. 



Polisiee rufoUneatus^ sp. n. 



Ferrugineus ; vertice, meso- metathoraceque nigris, lineis 2 mesonoti, 

 scutello postscutelloiiue rufis ; pedibus rufis, coxis, trochanter- 

 ibus, femorum anterioribus basi, femoribus tibiisque posticis 

 nigris ; tarsis flavis, basi nigra ; alis fulvo-hyalinis. 



Long., 2 23, (S 15 mm. 



Ilah. Khasia Hills. V,o\\. Rothney. 



Head ferruginous; the ocellar region from shortly behind 

 the posterior pair, from eye to eye, and extending along the 

 upper part of the eye-incision, black ; the front and vertex 

 punctured, but not very strongly or closely ; the antennal keel 

 stout, roundl}' dilated behind and carinate in the middle. 

 Clypeus broader than long, roundly convex, the top trans- 

 verse, the angles oblique; the apex with the aides oblique; 

 the punctures are sparse and moderately large. Mandibles 

 rufous, sj)arsely punctured ; the teeth black, the middle one 

 smaller than the others. Antenna3 rufous ; the five basal 

 joints of the flagellum black above. Thorax black ; the pro- 

 thorax, two lines on the centre of the niesonotum, a much 

 shorter one opjiosite the tcguhe, a mark, narrowed bflow, 

 under the tubercles, the scutellum and postscutellum, rufous. 

 Wcaonotum almost impunctate ; the scutellum with shallow 

 scattered punctures. Metanotum, except at the base, irregu- 

 larly and rather widely transversely striated. Pleura? bearing 

 shallow punctures ; the apical half of the metapleurtu obliquely 



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