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penultimate, and the whole of the last ; yellow are the clypeus, a curved 
line on the lower part of the eye incision, a mark between the antennae, 
its lower part dilated laterally, the basal half of propleurae, its apex 
irregularly narrowed, a longish mark down the apex of the mesopleurae, 
narrowed below and with irregular edges, the base of the upper part 
rounded and with a shallow incision below, the centre of the scutellum 
broadly, the line of equal width, apical half of post-scutellum, the sides 
of the metanotum broadly, a transverse mark on the sides of the apex 
of first abdominal segment, having the black mark between them, a broad 
line on the apex of the basal fourth of the second segment, extending close 
to the middle, similar, but narrower, lines on the third and fourth, and 
narrow lines, narrowed in the middle, on the apices of the second to 
fourth ventral segments, pale yellow ; wings hyaline, broadly fulvous in 
front, the radial cellule fuscous- violaceous ; the costa and stigma fulvous. 
Female. 
Total length, 23 mm. 
Buttons Kop. October. 
Head and thorax closely, but not very strongly punctured, densely 
covered with white pubescence ; clypeus almost smooth, not one-quarter 
longer than wide, its apex broad, transverse ; apex of post-scutellum 
broadly, roundly narrowed ; furrow on metanotum shallow, not widened 
towards the apex ; it is distinct on the apical half only. 
Allied to E. lepelitieri Sauss. and E. merueusis Cam., from which it 
may be known by the base of the second abdominal segment being broadly 
red and without a black longitudinal line ; the yellow colour is paler, and 
the transverse black line on the second segment is broader and nearer the 
middle ; while the black line down the centre of the second ventral is 
absent from the two species mentioned. 
Eumenes lepeletieri Saus. 
Gerstacker, v. d. Decken,- Reise in Ost-Afr., 1873, 322; Gribodo, Ann. 
Mus. Civ., Genova, XXI, 292 ; Magretti, l.c., XXI, 611 ; Andre, Spec. 
Hym. Eur. ii, 632 ; Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), X, 219. 
Rietfontein. October. 
Eumenes pulchripennis, sp. n. 
Black ; the antennae except the apical joints above, mandibles except 
at the apex, clypeus, a narrow line on the eye incision, a wider one on the 
outer orbits, prothorax, tegulae, apical half of scutellum, post-scutellum, 
the metanotum except the edges and the central furrow broadly, the 
sides and the outer edges above of the apical three-fourths of first 
abdominal segment and the second segment narrowly all round, red ; 
the legs of a slighter lighter red, their hind tarsi fuscous; wings fuscous- 
violaceous ; the nervures and stigma black ; the second abscissa of the v 
radius one-fourth of the length of the third ; the second transverse cubital 
nervure broadly, roundly curved. Female. 
Total length, 17 mm. 
Kranspoort-. December. 
