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ACULEATE HYMENOPTERA FROM MESOPOTAMIA, 199 
The ‘teeth’? which form the actual apex of 
the abdomen (Nos. 7 and 8 in the Figure) are 
very unlike those of hemorrhoa and ‘‘ cotur - 
min.(?).?? 
Instead of being long slender spines, they are 
short and broad, with broadly subtruncate apices 
and their inner margins converging rapidly 
almost at right angles. (All the ‘teeth’ in this 
2 en Bi species seem liable to vary somewhat in shape. 
more to They are even sometimes distinctly asymmetrical, 
Fis. 8 Notwithstanding this, their general appearance 
ssi : is so far uniform and unlike that of those in 
96. Apis mellifera, L. 
hemorrhoa that specimens of the two can 
always be distinguished at a glance by the 
characters of this segment only !) 
The figure above (Fig. 8) is drawn from the redder of the two ¢ 4, and the 
so-called teeth are numbered as in the corresponding figure (Fig. 6) of the 
& apex in “coturnix ?” 
Several specimens were sent by Captain Buxton’s from N. W. Persia (Resht, 
Enzeli, Kermanshah,) but none from Mesopotamia. All were workers, and 
belonged to the var. fasciata, Latr. 
List 3, WASPS. 
1. Vespa crabro L. var. crabroniformis, Smith.—1 9, Enzeli(P), 25th June. 
This specimen is exactly like the Type (at 8. Kensington !) of Smith’s cra- 
broniformis described from N. China as a new species. It only differs from 
normal examples of V. crabro in having very narrow—in fact almost linear— 
yellow bands on the 3rd and 4th abdominal tergites. 
2. Vespa orientalis, L.—1 2, Amara (M), 25th June. 
2 %%, Amara (M), 6th July. 
[1 8, Amara (M), “from nest in roof of building ”’ 
17th August 1918.—Captain Evans. ] 
1 &%, Shahroban (M), 31st July. 
All these belong to the bright red and yellow typical form of the species. 
The darker variety wgyptiaca, André, occurred in N. W. Persia (1 2, Qazvin, 
25th July.) 
3. Vespa germanica, F—Many 92 9° from Persia (Kermanshah, Enzeli, Qazvin, 
etc.) also 3 @ @, Kermanshah, 3rd and 4th 
December, 1 2, Enzeli, 20th June. 
No specimens have been sent to me from Mesopotamia, nor is that country 
cited in the list of Asiatic localities given for germanica in R. du Buysson’s 
Monogr. des Guepes ou Vespa (1904). 
4, Polistes gallicus, L—Many 2 2 and 2 9 were taken by Captain Buxton 
in Persia, but no ¢ 4, [Captain Evans also sent a 9, one of “‘ three found under 
a stone,” 22nd January 1919, from Harunabad (P).} In Mesopotamia the species 
seems to have been completety anticipated—or evicted ?—by P. hebreus. At 
any rate none have reached me from thence. 
It may be that I am including under the Linnean name gallicus more than 
one of several forms which have been separated by Kohl on account of differences 
in their # ¢. There are certainly, there as elsewhere, two easily distinguishable 
types of coloration. Specimens taken at Resht and Enzeli between February 
and June were much darker and generally larger than others which occurred 
at Qazvin and Menjil (July-September). But the Harunabad 2 “ hibernating 
under a stone” in January was of the light form. 
