YESPIDiE. 
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Vespid;e. 
Maindron, M. Histoiro des Guepes solitaires (Eum&iiens) de l’Archipel 
Indien et de la Nouvelle-Guinee. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. 
pp. 69-76, 169-188, & 267-286, pis. iii.-v. 
This paper contains a summary of the observations of previous authors 
on the habits of the Eumenides , and general observations on nidification, 
habits, &c. They may be divided into three groups, according to their 
nidification: — (1) Eumenes , Zethas, Abispa, Rhynchium , and Synagris : 
nests formed of comminuted earth, and fixed to walls, stones, brambles, 
or to the branches of shrubs. (2) Odynerus , and allies ; Disccelius (?) : 
nests formed in galleries dug in old walls, or sandy ground. (3) Ody- 
nerus , Rhynchium : nests excavated in dry branches. Next follows a 
description of the habits of the larvae and pupae, and the paper concludes 
with a list of the species of the Iudo- Malayan and Papuan Islands, 
several being described as new. Much synonymy is givou. Nests, &c., 
of the following kuown species are figured : — Eumenes circinulis , Fabr., 
pi. iii. figs. 7-10, germaini , Luc., figs. 1-5, Rhynchium parentissimum , 
Sauss., figs. 8 & 9, haemorrhoid ale , Fabr., figs. 10 & 11, pi. iv., atrum , 
Sauss., figs. 8 & 9, and rubro-pictum, Smith, figs. 10 & 11, pi. v. 
Mummy of a wasp ; Psyche, iii. p. 368. 
Polistes gallica and biglumis , L., discussed ; De Stefani Perez, Nat. Sicil. 
ii. pp. 55-58. 
Odynerus pictus, Curt. Transformations noticed ; Bignell, Ent. xv. 
p. 164. 
Vespa germanica. Early appearance in 1882 ; Billups, P. E. Soc. 1882, 
p. iii., and Ent. M. M. xviii. p. 234. V. occidentalism Cress., preying on 
Musca domestica ; Snow, Pysche, iii. p. 339. V. orientalis , Fabr., dis- 
cussed ; De Stefani Perez, Nat. Sicil. ii. pp. 17-20, & 42-44. 
The larvae of wasps emit fluid from the mouth, and take it up again 
accompanied by any nutritious particles which it may have enclosed ; 
Wake, J. Northampton Soc. i. p. 59. 
Wasps and hornets attack flies and bees, and reject tho heads of flies ; 
they also stalk down grasshoppers; Sci. Goss, xviii. pp. 237, 261, 281, 
& 282. 
New species : — 
Eumenes dory cus, figs. 3-6, New Guinea, and dichrous, figs. 1 & 2, 
Tidore, Maindron, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. pp. 273 & 274, pi. iii. 
Ancistrocerus lucasius , id. 1. c. p. 282, pi. iii. fig. 11, New Guinea. 
Icaria maculata , Radoszkovsky, J. Sci. Lisb. viii. p. 204, Angola. 
Odynerus angolensis, obscurus, p. 204, humbii , p. 205, id. 1. c., Angola ; 
0. bicolor , Maindron, l. c. p. 284, pi. iv. figs. 6 & 7, New Guinea ; 0. ponii- 
cerianus , id. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. xv., Pondicherry ; 0. ( Lionotus ) 
laborans f Costa, Atti Acc. Nap. ix. (11) p. 37, Sardiuia. 
Rynchium medium (? = nitidulum , Sauss., var.), figs. 1-5, and Icuencheli , 
figs. 5 & 6, Maindron, l. c. pp. 278 & 279, pi. v., New Guinea; R.ferru - 
gineum, p. 205, holosericeum , and rujiventre, p. 206, Radoszkovsky, l. c. 
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