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$ e-3L, $ e-3stL, 9 -3R, 9 -3R, $ e-5R ; and male, 9 - 
3stR, $ p-4R, 9 -6L. 
Polistes metricus Say. See P. canadensis var. metricus (Say) 
and P. fuscatus var. pallipes (Lepel.). 
Polistes minor Beauvois. Pierce, 1918, 490: in error for? 
(P. minor does not occur in Louisiana, the locality 
given by Pierce) . 
Polistes navajoe Cresson. Pierce, 1909, 183 : in error for P. 
canadensis var. metricus (Say). 
Polistes olivaceus (Degeer). Horne, 1870, 171: North-west 
Provinces of India. Maxwell-Lefroy and Howlett, 1909, 
Indian Insect Life, 395 ; India ; $ . Pierce, 1918, 490 : 
Pusa, Bihar, India; 12 April 1911; G. R. Dutt; $ and 
9 . 
Polistes opmabilis Kohl. Fahringer, 1919, Zeitschr. wiss. 
Ins. biol. 15, 48: Pola, Istria, Italy. 
Polistes pallipes Lepel. See P. fuscatus var .pallipes (Lepel.). 
Polistes perplexus Cresson. See P. fuscatus var. perplexus 
(Cresson) . 
Polistes rubiginosus Lepel. See P. fuscatus var. rubiginosus 
(Lepel.) . 
Polistes stigma (Fabr.). Horne, 1870, 172: North-west 
Provinces of India. 
Polistes texanus Cresson=P. fuscatus var. apachus 
(Sauss.). 
Polistes unicolor Lepel. See P. canadensis var. unicolor 
(Lepel.) . 
Polistes variatus Cresson. See P. fuscatus var. variatus 
(Cresson) . 
Polistes versicolor (Olivier). Brethes, 1923, 44; Buenos 
Aires, Rep. Argentina; $ and 9 of Xenos bonariensis 
described. 
Vespinse 
Vespa acuta Lefebvre in Ann. Soc. Ent. France 4: xlv; 1835. 
(a nomen nudum) . 
