HYMENOPTEEA. 917 



-Pamily—ZAEHIDJi'. 

 Laruada, sp. 



Family— HUMIJNWM 

 Rhtnchium caenatictjm, Sauss., Mon. Gu6pes Sol., 112. 



Yamily—rmPIDJE. 

 PoLiSTES HEBi^us, Fabr., Mant. Ins., i, p. 292. 



POLISTES. 



Vespa basalis, Smith., Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., ii, p. 46. 



Vespa bellona, Smith, Plate LXXXI, fig. 9. 



Fespa bellona, Smith.., Proc. Zool. SoC; 1871^ p. 248, pi. xviii, fig. 6. 



Female. — Head, thorax, and legs pale yellowish-brown ; the eyes dark fuscous ; 

 the teeth and inner margin of the mandibles black ; the fiagellum of the antennae 

 fuscous above towards the apex ; a fuscous spot in front of the intermediate and 

 posterior coxae ; the prothorax with a black transverse spot above ; the wings 

 fusco-hyaline, darkest at the anterior margin of the superior pair and towards their 

 base. Abdomen black, with a narrow yellow marginal band on each segment at its 

 apex ; the apical segment entirely black ; the extreme base of the abdomen with 

 indistinct yellowish stains. Length 1 inch 6 lines. 



Worker. — Closely resembles the female ; but in the single example received 

 the abdomen has only a yellow margin to the basal segment ; all the tarsi are fus- 

 cous, with the claw-joint yellowish ; the fiagellum is not fuscous above. Length 

 10 lines. 



This species is nearly allied to Vespa magnifica. The head of the female is 

 widened towards the thorax, as in that species, and is deeply emarginate behind ; 

 the clypeus and mandibles are not so strongly punctured, and the apical segment of 

 the abdomen is not yellow as in V. magnifica. Vespa basalis resembles this species, 

 but it differs in being covered with a short glittering pilosity, and its clypeus is 

 smooth, shining, and impunctate. 



Family— ^P/Z>^. 



Crocisa decora. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, ii, p. 41. 



Anthophora, sp. ? 



Anthophora zonata, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, p. 955. 



Xylocopa tenuiscapa, Westw., Nat. Libr., 38, p. 271, t. 23, fig. 2. 



Xylocopa, sp. ? 



Xylocopa, sp. ? 



