238 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
lectors, he was not able to find more than two specimens. In 
the Museum there are twelve specimens ; two from Tibet, one 
from Samarang, and the remainder from Singapore and Yoko- 
hama. This and the above form were also regarded by Bing- 
ham as distinct species, but we have followed Bequaert in 
placing them as varieties of H. caffer, a species which does not 
occur in India. 
Eumenes conica Fabr. 
This widely distributed Eumenid is one of the few Indian 
species of the family whose habits are well known. Notes 
have been published by Bingham in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 
Soc., X11, p. 538, and Ramakrishna Aiyar, ibid., p. 243. A good 
account is given by Dutt in Mem. Dept. Agri. Ind. Ent. Series 
IV, p. 231 (1913). Paiva records an aberration of this species 
in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (n.s.) 1; p. 349 (1906). 
Eumenes edwardsit Sauss. 
Sikkim; Satara District, Bombay Presidency ; Calcutta; 
Kumdhik, Nepal Terai. Represented in the Pusa collection 
from Pusa (vi'07); Gorakhpur (xii08) and Trichinopoly (G. 
R. Dutt “bred from sohtary mud cells attached to grass 
blades; the shape of a cell is roundly oval and it is 14 mm. 
along the major axis and about 10 mm. along the minor 
one’’) 
Eumenes flavopicta Blanch. 
Bangalore; Nilgiris, 9,000 ft.; Satara District ; Khempsa, 
W. Ghats; Nedumangad, 10 miles N.E. of Trivandrum (N. 
Annandale, 14°xi‘08); Cacara Bay, Portugese India (S. W. 
Kemp, 15x16). In the Pusa collection from Matheran, 
2.500 ft. Bombay (iv'08); Kannirode, Madras (vi'17) ; Coorg ; 
Sidapur ; Sudaganga and Matale, Ceylon (iii'19). — ! 
Humenes arcuata Fab. 
_ According to Bingham this species does not extend up the 
Himalayas to any great height, but there is a specimen in the 
Pusa collection from Lebong, 5,000 ft. collected in September, 
1908 ) 
“In September, 1914, Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher found a 
nest of this species at Moulmein (Burma), which was made of 
mud, round the stem of a creeper, the nest hanging like 4 
fruit. The mud used was reddish yellow in colour. The nest 

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