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MR. H. L. BOTH ON THE HABITS 01" 



[A short account of the nest of Abispa epliippium, Fabr,, was 

 published by Smith and Ker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (2) i. 

 pp. 180, 181 (1850).— W. E. K.] 



Fig. 3. 



Nest of Abispa splendida. 



A. Side view, nat. size. B. Outer opening. 0. Section showing the inner 



opening as indicated towards the point of the arrow. 



Bhtnchium Eotht, sp. n. 



[Esp. al. 13-14 lin. 



Female. Black ; antennae reddisb, scape paler, brigbt yellow 

 beneath. Head black ; clypeus very finely punctured, wholly 

 yellow, slightly angulated at the sides, rather longer than broad, 

 and bifid at the extremity ; base of the mandibles with a slight 

 orange streak ; hinder orbits and inner orbits from the clypeus 

 to the depth of the emargination rather narrowly bordered with 

 yellow, the intermediate orbits on the borders of the vertex very 

 slightly marked with orange ; vertex and thorax rather coarsely 

 punctured ; between the antennae is a nearly equilateral yellow 

 triangle, and two small oblique orange streaks lie between the 

 two hinder ocelli and the front ocellus. Prothorax entirely 

 yellow above ; a small orange dot in front of the base of the 



