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half the length of the abdomen ; the second and third segments red, with a fuscous 

 spot in the middle of each. 



Hah, Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



This insect was bred from cocoons constructed by Parapison rufipes, it having taken 

 possession of one of the cells and reared its own young therein. 



2. Trtpoxtlon rejector. (Plate XXL fig. 4 a.) 



Female, Length 5^ lines. Black, with the second and third segments of the abdomen 

 red, the legs black. 



Head — the clypeus and the emargination of the eyes silvery ; tips of the mandibles 

 ferruginous, the palpi pale testaceous ; an impressed line in front of the anterior ocellus, 

 terminating at an elevated carina just above the insertion of the antennae. Thorax 

 smooth and shining on the disk ; the sides of the metathorax with silvery pubescence, 

 and a smooth enclosed space at its base divided by a central chaimel, beyond the 

 enclosure it widens into a deep and wide fossulet; wings subhyaline, their apical 

 margins clouded and beautifully iridescent ; legs entirely black. Abdomen with a long 

 petiole, and smooth and shining ; the second and third segments red, their apical margins 

 more or less fuscous. 



Hob. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



This species was bred from cells constructed by Pterochilus pulchellus, 



Fam. EUMENID^. 



1. EuMENES MAiNPURiENSis. (Plate XX. fig. 3 a.) 



Male, Length 5 lines. Black, with yellow bands and spots, and thinly covered with 

 short pale pubescence. 



Head and thorax very closely punctured; the clypeus and a narrow line running 

 upwards and terminating in a round spot yellow; the apical joint or hook of the 

 antennae reddish yellow; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax — the anterior 

 margin of the prothorax yellow above ; the tegulse and postscutellum yellow ; the tibise, 

 tarsi, and apex of the femora yellow; the posterior tarsi, and apex of the tibise above, 

 fuscous ; the wings subhyaline, the anterior margin of the anterior pair more or less 

 fuscous. Abdomen with all the segments ii-regularly bordered with yellow; petiole 

 pyriform, the yellow border deeply emarginate in the middle, and on each side of it a 

 deep impression ; the second segment with a small transverse oblong yellow spot on each 

 side, and the yellow border deeply emarginate in the middle and narrowed laterally ; 

 the borders of the other segments narrower ; the abdomen is slightly shining, finely and 

 closely punctured, but not so closely as the head and thorax. 



Hab, Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



This may possibly be the male of the species described by Saussure in his ' Mono- 



