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clypeus, tlie greater portion of the cheeks behind the eyes, 

 the scape, the basal joint and basal half of the second joint 

 of the flagellum of the antenna, the prothorax and legs, 

 the pedicel underneath and on the sides, and the apical two 

 abdominal segments deep maroon-red ; wings fusco-hyaline, 

 nervures brown, tegula3 red. The head, thorax, and abdomen 

 covered with a soft, white, rather long, semierect pubescence, 

 most dense on the median segment. Head and thorax closely 

 and somewhat coarsely punctured, opaque ; pedicel and 

 abdomen more finely but yet closely punctured, shining. 



Length, ? , 18; exp. 38 millim. 



Male unknown. 



Eah. Collected by Herr Zutrzenka at Leydenburg, East 

 Transvaal. 



This is a true Discoelius, with four joints in the labial 

 palpi and the recurrent nervures in the fore wing both 

 received in the second cubital cell, this latter with a distinct 

 border at the marginal cell. 



Genus Eumenes. 

 Eumenes maxiUosa, Degeer. 



Vespa ma-rjllosa, Degeer, M^m. Hist, Ins. iii. (1773) p. 577, pi. xxix. 



11^3. 1 & 2. 

 Sphex tinctor, Christ, Naturg. d. Ins. 1791, p. 311, pi. xxxi. fig. 1. 

 Eumeyies Saviymji, Gu^r. Icon. Regn. anim. vii. (1845) p. 446, pi. Ixxii. 



tijr. 4. 

 Eumenes tinctor, Sauss. Etud. Fam. Vesp. i., Eumenes (1852), p 49- 



Smith, Cat. Hvm. B. ]NJ. v. (1857) p. 27. ' 



Eumenes maxillosus, Sauss. Grandid. Hist. Madag. xx. pt. i. (1891) 



p. 153. 



Thirty-one females^ Pretoria {Distant) ; Fort Johnston, 

 Nyasaland, and Barberton [Rendall) ; Durban [Ross). 



Nine males, Pretoria {Distant) : Fort Johnston, Nyasaland 

 {Eendall). 



Eumenes caffra, Linn. 



Vesjya caffra, Linn. Svst. Nat. 12th ed. (1767) p. 951 : Christ, Naturo-, 



d. Ins. 1791, p. 2149. 

 Vespa cratiofa, Weber, Obs. Ent. 1801, p. 101. 

 Eumenes caffra, Sauss. Etud. Fam. Vesp. i., Eum. (1852) p. 45. 



Three females, two males (typical), Pretoria [Distant). 



Eumenes LepeJetieri^ Sauss. 



Eumenes LepeJetierii, Sauss. Etud. Fam. Vesp. i., Eum. (1852) p. 45 o 

 pi. X. fig. 1 ; Gerst. v. d. Decken, Reise in Ost-Afr. 1873, p 3->o ! 

 Andre, Spec. Hym. Eur. ii. (1884) p. 632; Grib. Ann. MuV. CiV 

 Gen. xxi. (1884) p. 292 ; Magretti, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxi. (1884) 

 p, 611. 



