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DIPLOPTERA. 
VESPIDAE. 
ICARIA SAUSS. 
Icaria cincta Lep. 
Gerstacker, v. d. Decken’s Reise in Ost-Afr., 1873, p. 324 ; Bingham, 
Ann. and Mag, Nat. Hist., (7), XII, 48 ; Schletterer, Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. de 
Belg., XXXV, 28 ; Magretti, Ann. d. Mus. Civ. di Storia Nat. di Genova, 
XIX, (2), 35 ; Stadelmann, Die Hym. Ost. Afrikas, 1897, 33, 17 ; 
Zavattari, Boll, di Zool. ed Anat. Comp. d. R. Univ. di Torino, XXII, 2. 
Warmberg No. 211, Zoutpansberg District. September. 
Icaria capensis Sanss. 
Stett. Ent. Zeit., XXIII, 139. 
Waterval. . December. Rietfontein. November. Zoutpansberg. 
POLISTES LaTR. 
Polistes maculipennis Saus. 
Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), XII, 48. 
Mpah. Yele Poort. May. One Queen. 
Polistes marginalis Fab. 
Gerstacker, v. d. Decken’s Reise in Ost-Afr., 325 ; Gribodo, Ann. 
Mus. Civ. Genova, XVI, 328, i (2), 286; Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
(7), XII, 48 ; Magretti, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2), XIX, 36 ; l.c. i, 607 ; 
Fox, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science, Phil., 1896, 555 ; Stadelmann, Die Hymen. 
Ost-Afr., 34, 22; Gribodo, Rassen. d. Imen. race. N. Mozambico, 1894, 127 ; 
Cameron, Sjostedts, Kilimandjaro-Meru, Exped., Hymen., 169. 
Polistes plebeia. — Gerstacker, v. d. Decken’s Reise, 325, 20. 
Pretoria. January. Rietf. Waterval. November. 
Three specimens all different in coloration, one being the form 
figured by Saussure, Vespides, i, pi. VI, f. 2 ; the second paler, more 
testaceous in colour, and almost without the apical alar cloud, the third 
chocolate coloured. 
Polistes smithii Saus. 
Gerstacker, Peter’s Reise N. Mozamb., Zool. V, 470; Gribodo, Ann. 
Mus. Civ. Genova, XXI, 287; Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XII, (7), 
48; Schletterer, Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. de Belg., XXXV, 29; Stadelmann, 
Hym Ost-Afrikas, 34 ; Kohl, Mittheil. Nat. Mus. Hamb. X, 2 ; Cameron, 
Sjostedt’s Kilimand.-Meru Expedition, Hymen., 169. 
Rietfontein. December. 
Belonogaster Sauss. 
Belonogaster grisea Fab. 
Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), XII, 47. 
B. pictus, Kohl. Ann. K. K. Hof. Mus. IX, 324. 
