P. CAMERON. HYMENOPTERA I. 65 



base, red. Legs yellow, their coxae black; the anterior femora rufous to ncar the apex, the 

 hinder black, with the apex narrowly red; the hind tibiae black, tinged with red in front, 

 yellow behind, the tarsi blackish red. Wings fuscous violaceous, the hinder much more hyaline; 

 the nervures black, the costa rufous. Ç. 



Length 22 mm. 



Médian segment almost vertical; the furrow shallow on the upper half, the lower wid- 

 ened, of equal width, with the sides obliquely sloped. Apex of clypeus transverse. Abdominal 

 pétiole as long as the thorax with the médian segment, its middle without tubercles. The 

 antennal scape is yellowish below, the rest reddish, mixed with black, the flagellum rufous, 

 the apical half black above. 



3. Eumenes spilonotus n. sp. 



Sentani, 19 April. Manokwari, 23 May. 



Black, the sides and top of. the clypeus broadly, 2 lines uniting below on the apex 

 in the centre; the lower inner orbits to the top of the eye incision and a band on the outer 

 on the upper two-thirds, both lines being broad and the outer one narrowed below; the 

 base of the pronotum above, the line dilated at the sides, the outerside and apex of the 

 tegulae, 2 transverse oval marks on the scutellum, nearer the base than the apex, the sides 

 of the médian segment broadly at the apex, the yellow mark having a squarish black mark 

 projecting into it above the middle on the outerside, a large irregularly oval mark on the 

 base of the mesopleurae ; the narrowed base of the 1 st abdominal segment, a large irregular 

 band on its apex, narrow in the middle at the apex, dilated irregularly backwards, dilated 

 in the middle on the innerside and gradually narrowed towards the base and bands on the 

 apices of the following 4 segments ail round, bright yellow. The fore femora, tibiae and tarsi 

 are bright yellow on the outerside, the femora black at the base, the tibiae and tarsi fulvous 

 on the innerside, the middle legs are similarly coloured, but with the femora entirely black 

 behind; the hind femora black, broadly yellow on the apical half; the hind tibiae black, 

 with a yellow band beyond the middle and the innerside. Fore wings fuscous violaceous, 

 the nervures and stigma black; the hind wings more hyaline. Q. 



Length 13 mm. 



Scape • of antennae yellow, the flagellum brownish below. Clypeus about one fourth 

 longer than its width in the middle; its apex depressed in the middle; its centre is more 

 strongly punctured than the rest; the punctuation is not close. Front strongly and closely 

 punctured ; the vertex much less strongly and closely punctured ; there is a deep large 

 dépression or fovea behind the ocelli ; it is wider than long and open in the centre at the 

 apex. Thorax closely punctured ; the apex of the meso- and base of metapleurae almost 

 smooth. Apex of metanotum with an almost vertical slope; the dépression of equal width 

 throughout. Basai third of abdominal pétiole narrowed, the rest much dilated; the whole is 

 not much longer than the 2n d segment. 



Belongs to SAUSSURE'S „pe Division" (Études sur la Fam. d. Vespides. I, 2S). 



4. Eumenes arcuatus Fab. 



Manokwari, May. One example. 

 Nova Guinea. V. Zoologie. q 



