ba -s ¥ 0. 8.] Notes on some Rare and Interesting Insects. 349 
doubtless a rare species, and very little is at present 
known about its distribution, Barrackpore, near Calcutta, having 
been the only locality recorded hitherto. 
EUMENIDZ. 
Eumengs conica (Fabr.), var. 
Bingham in Blanford’s Fauna of British India, Hymenoptera, re 
p. 343. 
Two peculiar specimens (a ¢ anda @) ofa Eumenid were 
recently obtain ed by the Museum collector in Calcutta. They 
ol. Bingham’s description of this species as 
regards both size and form, but their coloration differs remarkably 
from that of the pera ie as Piles as from that of the specimens 
in the Indian Museum collec 
n the female the head eae of being yellow is red. It is 
very ae the same colour as the antenne. The posterior 
portion of the mesonotum is very much darker than the anterior, 
ack. 
base of the petiole is 3 acl and it has also a subapical 
well-defined black transverse ee above. The transverse medial 
con: 
medially interrup 
The bases of segments ! 3-6 above are also black, but cannot 
be seen distinctly, owing to the overlapping of the anterior 
segments. The apical margins of segments 3-5 are very narro narrowly 
yellowish. 
In the male the head is the same colour as the female, vv., 
sterior portion of the mesonotum is very much 
Soke ai bei ly black. The second abdominal 
darker than the anterior, being near. ac e 
arker than the anterior. ri a ior ie bei shots, at 
rg he th 
dorsal plate of the second abdominal segm 
fifth abdominal segments have at their bases above, transverse 
b é 
y yenow bene, 
half brown enclosing a sli ightly y veditiah- yellow spot. The abdo- 
men beneath is much lighter in colour. 
