or HTIMENOPTEEA FROM SUMATRA, ETC. 87 



clear hyaline and iridescent, the tegulse pale testaceous ; the legs fer- 

 ruginous ; the posterior coxae black at their base ; the femora and 

 tibise with a darkish stain beneath, and the claw-joint of the tarsi 

 dark. Abdomen : the petiole linear; the apex piceous and punctured. 

 Hab. Morty Island. 



This I believe to be the first species of the genus that has been 

 found within the tropics. 



Pam. PHILANTHID^, Dahlh. 

 G-en. Cerceris, Latr. 



1. Cerceris sepulchralis. Smith, Proe. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 107. 

 Hab. Sumatra. 



2. Cerceris tumulorum. C. nigra, flavo variegata ; clypeo biden- 

 tato; abdomine fasciis tribus flavis; pedibus flavo-ferrugineis ; alis 

 fulvo-hyalinis, marginibus anterioribus fuscis. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black, shining, and punctured, the bead and 

 thorax more closely and strongly so than the abdomen ; the mandibles, 

 face, clypeus, two minute spots on the vertex and a larger spot behind 

 the eyes near their summit, yellow ; the clypeus with two minute 

 teeth; the tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous ; the scape in front 

 and the flagellum beneath fulvous. Thorax : two spots on the 

 collar, two on the scutellum, the postscutellum, and the tegulae 

 yellow ; the legs reddish yellow, with the coxae, and the posterior 

 tarsi towards their apex, dark fuscous ; wings fulvo-hyaline, with a 

 dark fuscous stain at the anterior margin of the superior pair. Ab- 

 domen : a spot on the basal segment, and a subinterrupted band on 

 the apical margins of the three following segments, the bands nar- 

 rowest in the middle. 



Hab. Gilolo. 



Group SOLITABT WASPS. 



Fam. EUMENIDiE, Westw. 



Gen. EuMENES, Fahr. 



1. Eumenes arcuatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 286. 

 Hab. Salwatty. 



2. Eumenes Praslina, Chi^.Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 267 (var. arcuatus). 

 Hab. Morty Island. 



3. Eumenes eximius. Smith, Proe. Linn. Soc. v. p. 126. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Morty Island. 



4. Eumenes volatilis. Smith, Proe. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 38. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



6. Eumenes fulvipennis. Smith, Cat. Vespidee, p. 24. 

 Hab. Sula. 



