48 FASCICULI MALATENSES 



* From flowers of Mimosa pudica ; midday.' 



A very common wasp throughout the I ndo- Malayan region. Dalla 

 Torre, in his Catalogus Hymenopterorum, puts it as a variety of the next 

 species. The two races are certainly very closely allied. 



116. Rhynchium haemorrhoidale 



Vespa haemorrhoidalis, Fabr., Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 366. 



Odynerus dimidiatus, Guer., Voy. Belang. Zoo/., 1834, p. 503; Atlas, Ins., 

 pi. iv, fig. 4. 



Rhygchium haemorrhoidale, Sauss., Etud. Faun. Vesp. i, 1852, p. 109, 



Rhynchium haemorrhoidale, Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. v, 1857, p. 44, 



Bidor. 3rd February, 1902. 



Sungkei. 10th February, 1902. 



Biserat. 15th October, 1901. 

 Jambu. 6th June, 1901. 



' On flowers of shrub.' 



Common throughout the Indo-Malayan region. 



117. Rhynchium smithi 



Rhynchium smithii, Sauss., Etud. Faun. Vesp. iii, 1856, p. 174, $. 



Jambu. 6th June, 1 901. 



* A pair on flowers of shrub.' 



The $ resembles the $, but is larger. Neither specimen is quite typical, 

 differing from specimens in the British Museum collection in the wings being 

 more hyaline at base, and having a deep blue, not purplish, refulgence. 



ODYNERUS, Latr. 

 118. Odynerus fraternus 



Odynerus fraternus, Bingh., Faun. Brit. Ins. Hym. i, 1897, p. 366, 



2 9 's. Biserat. 23rd October, 1901. 



Identical with the type from Tenasserim. 



119. Odynerus septemfasciatus 



Odynerus septemfasciatus, Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. ii (1 8 58), p. 1 10, $ ; Gribobo, 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Stal. xxiii (1891), p. 295, 



Biserat. 12th October, 1901. 



A single $ resembling the $ described by Gribobo from Sumatra, as 

 having the ' facies of species ' of the genus Vespa. The type specimen, a $ 

 in the collection of the British Museum, is from Borneo. 



