FROM THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES OF INDIA. 189 
half the length of the abdomen; the second and third segments red, with a fuscous 
spot in the middle of each. 
Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 
This insect was bred from cocoons constructed by Parapison rufipes, it having taken 
possession of one of the cells and reared its own young therein. 
2. TRYPOXYLON REJECTOR. (Plate XXI. fig. 4.) 
Female. Length 5} lines. Black, with the second and third segments of the abdomen 
red, the legs black. 
Head—the clypeus and the emargination of the eyes silvery; tips of the mandibles 
ferruginous, the palpi pale testaceous; an impressed line in front of the anterior ocellus, 
terminating at an elevated carina just above the insertion of the antenne. ‘Thorax 
smooth and shining on the disk; the sides of the metathorax with silvery pubescence, 
and a smooth enclosed space at its base divided by a central channel, beyond the 
enclosure it widens into a deep and wide fossulet; wings subhyaline, their apical 
margins clouded and beautifully iridescent ; legs entirely black. Abdomen with a long 
petiole, and smooth and shining; the second and third segments red, their apical margins 
more or less fuscous. 
Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 
This species was bred from cells constructed by Pterochilus pulchellus. 
Fam. EUMENID. 
1. EUMENES MAINPURIENSIS. (Plate XX. fig. 3 a.) 
Male. Length 5 lines. Black, with yellow bands and spots, and thinly covered with 
short pale pubescence. 
Head and thorax very closely punctured; the clypeus and a narrow line running 
upwards and terminating in a round spot yellow; the apical joint or hook of the 
antenne reddish yellow; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax—the anterior 
margin of the prothorax yellow above; the tegule and postscutellum yellow; the tibie, 
tarsi, and apex of the femora yellow; the posterior tarsi, and apex of the tibiz above, 
fuscous; the wings subhyaline, the anterior margin of the anterior pair more or less 
fuscous. Abdomen with all the segments irregularly bordered with yellow; petiole 
pyriform, the yellow border deeply emarginate in the middle, and on each side of it a 
deep impression ; the second segment with a small transverse oblong yellow spot on each 
side, and the yellow border deeply emarginate in the middle and narrowed laterally ; 
the borders of the other segments narrower; the abdomen is slightly shining, finely and 
closely punctured, but not so closely as the head and thorax. 
Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 
This may possibly be the male of the species described by Saussure in his ‘ Mono- 
