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ocelli finely and closely punctured, the vertex round and behind the ocelli and the area 

 behind the eyes smooth and shining, with only a few scattered fine punctures and with 

 a slightly marked medial longitudinal carina. Thorax : pro- and mesonotum, scutellum, 

 postscutellum, pleurae, and pectus finely but rather sparsely punctured ; median segment 

 rounded, obliquely declivous, its anterior half smooth, shining, unpunctured, its posterior 

 or lower half closely and finely punctured ; legs opaque, unpunctured. Abdomen 

 smooth, but with a dull surface, not shining. Head, thorax, and the underside of the 

 abdomen clothed somewhat sparsely with erect, long, soft, yellowish hairs, which are 

 most dense on the front and face and on the sides of the median segment ; on the 

 intermediate and posterior legs the tibiae and tarsi, and on the anterior legs the tarsi 

 only, are strongly spinose, the spines black. 



Length ? 17-18, exp. ol mm. 



Hah. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000-7000 ft. 



Two female specimens were procured in January. The second specimen differs 

 from the type described above in the absence of the quadrate black mark on the 

 dorsum of the 4th abdominal setjment. 



Family V e s p I D .E Latr. 

 Subfam. Eumenidin/E Westw. 



Genus Eumenes Latr. 



7. EuMENES MAXILLOSUS De Geer, Mem. Hist. Insect, iii. p. 577 (1773). 



Two males and one female from Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 3000-7000 ft. 

 The males taken in February, the female in June. A common species throughout 

 Tropical Africa, 



8. EuMENES FENESTEALis Sauss. Etud. fam. Vespid. i. Eumen. p. 53 (1852). 

 One female specimen, Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 7000 ft. 



A West-African species. 



Subfam. Vespin^ Stephens. 



Genus Belonogaster Sauss. 



9. Belonogastek colonialis Kohl, Ann. naturh. Hofmus. Wien, ix. p. 320 (1894). 

 Three specimens from Mubuku Valley, E, Ruwenzori, 5000-7000 ft. January and 



February. 



10. Belonogastee juncea Fabr. Spec. Insect, i. p. 468 (1781), 



Two specimens from Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3500 ft. May and June. 



