190 MESSES. C. HOENE AND P. SMITH ON HTMENOPTERA. 



graphie des Guepes solitaires,' and named Eumenes affinissima from its close resemblance 

 to the European species E. coarctata and E. pomiformis] but I have nothing to justify 

 my considering it to be so. 



2. Pterochilus pulchellus. (Plate XXI. fig. 8 i.) 



Female. Length 3 lines. Black, ornamented with yellowish-white markings; the 

 basal segment of the abdomen red. 



Head — a line behind the eyes, the sides of the clypeus, an oblong spot above it, the 

 base of the mandibles and the scape in front yellow white. A transverse line on the 

 thorax in front, the tegulse, a spot beneath the wings, and the sides of the scutellum 

 and postscutellum yellowish white ; the wings hyaline and iridescent ; the femora and 

 the tibise within pale ferruginous, the coxse white in front, the tibiae and tarsi white and 

 more or less stained with pale ferruginous. Abdomen — the first segment red, small, 

 and campanulate, much narrower than the second; the posterior margins of all the 

 segments white, and a small ovate spot on each side of the second segment; beneath, 

 the second segment with a white apical margin. 



Male. Rather smaller than the female, and closely resembling that sex, but having 

 the clypeus immaculate (the female has a black spot), and the second abdominal segment 

 without the two ovate white spots. 



Hab. Mainpuri, North-west Provinces of India. 



Fam. VESPIDiE. 

 1. Vespa vivax. (Plate XXI. fig. 9, $ .) 



Worker. Length 9 lines. Black, pubescent, head yellow, the abdomen with orange 

 bands, the legs and antennse ferruginous. 



Head sulphur-coloured ; the face above the clypeus as high as the posterior ocelli 

 black ; the emargination of the eyes obscurely yellow ; a reversed bell-shaped yellow 

 spot between the antennse. 



Thorax black, with sometimes a very narrow orange line on each side of its anterior 

 margin; wings fulvo-hyaline, with the anterior margin of the superior pair fusco- 

 ferruginous ; tegulse rufo-piceous ; the tibise and tarsi reddish yellow. 



Abdomen with the first segment bordered with a broad orange band occupying half 

 its width ; the second segment with a very narrow orange band on its apical margin ; 

 the third segment yellow, with a quadrate spot on each side at its basal margin ; these 

 spots unite with the black basal portion of the segment, which is sometimes partlv visible 

 also ; the apical margin of the fourth segment, and the fifth and sixth entirely, orange- 

 yellow; the abdomen yellow beneath from the middle of the second segment to the 

 apex. 



Hah, Binsur, Kumaon, North-west Provinces of India. 



