1922.] Diplopiera in the Indian Museum. 239 
ten wasps emerged up to 9th October, 1914, seven through cir- 
cular openings made on one side and three on the opposite 
side. The eleventh cell was opened i in pe deed 1915, and was 
found to contain a dead pupa.’ (G. R. Dutt). 
Eumenes lepeletiert var. asinus Sauss. 
This form! is not recorded in the ‘‘ Fauna.’”? The Museum 
possesses an example identified by Major Nurse and taken by 
him in April, 1901, in Deesa, a cantonment in the Bombay Pre- 
sidency. Bequ uaert considers asinus a varie ty of EH. a. 
which is widely distributed in the Ethiopian region, while 
form under consideration was previously known only imi 
Senegal. 
Montezumia burmanica Bing. 
Sikkim. Meade Waldo has shown? that Cameron’s M. bi- 
sulcate from the Khasi Hills is a synonym of this species. 
er ages abdominalis Bing: 
Odynerus (Rygchium) nitidulum Fabr. 
Cal “Pusa; Bangalore; Lucknow; Kashmir; La- 
hore, Punjab ine 08, Pusa coll.). 
Odynerus (Rygchium) metallicum Sauss. 
Represented in the Pusa collection from Pusa; Bhilsa, 
C.P. (iv 08); Surat, tone (v'04); Lyallpar (ix: 21) ; Bur- 
nihat, Assam, 800 ft. (x°20). 
Odynerus punctum Fabr. 
Calcutta ; Siliguri; Purneah District ; Lucknow. 
Odynerus miniatus Sauss. 
Meade-Waldo has shown’ that Smith’s Pterochilus pul- 
chelles dsuoribed by Behan in the “ Fauna” volume on 
1 Cf, Mon. Guep Soc. 1852, p- 59, ae xi, fig. 1, and Bequaert, loc 
cit., p- 
2 Ann. A lg Nat. Hist. (8) V, p- 47 (1910). 
3 Ann. Mag Nat. Hist. (8) V, P- 101 (1910). 
