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Notes on the Genus Nectarina Shuckard 
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NOTES ON THE GENUS NECTARINA SHUCKARD. 
(VESPIDiE). 
By Cedric Dover. 
British Museum (Natural History), London, England. 
The following notes are based on material in the British 
Museum (Natural History). 
Nectarina championi sp. nov. 
Female: head black, remotely punctured, covered with 
very short golden pubescence; gense yellow, the yellow extend- 
ing on to the occiput just behind the middle of each posterior 
ocellus; eyes dark greenish-bronze with golden iridescence; 
antennse mostly ochraceous, lighter on the underside, flagellum 
on outerside, except the three apical joints, brownish-black; 
Fig. 1. Nectarina championi sp. nov. Front view of head; yellow markings indicated in black. 
clypeus yellow, usually with two, short, longitudinal indefinitely 
shaped, brownish markings, convex, broader than long, posterior 
margin emarginate, anterior margin acutely prolonged; supra- 
clypeal area with a band of yellow, posteriorly notched with 
black in the middle; two more or less rounded yellow markings 
on the frons adjacent to the base of the antennae and a small 
transverse yellow marking above these; mandibles yellow; 
pronotum yellow with short golden brown hairs arising from 
minute punctures; mesonotum black, sparsely, but regularly 
and finely, pitted, with a longitudinal median carina anteriorly, 
and two, yellow curved-in stripes extending across it longitu- 
dinally on each side of this carina; scutellum yellow, pitted. 
