280 1^"^' 
The lower comb of the nest is entirely occupied by cells of male 
wasps ; from these a number of the insects were extracted. Our 
description will therefore probably be in some degree inaccurate, wben 
perfect disclosed specimens are obtained ; the colouring of the bead and 
thorax would very probably be considerably brighter. 
Another wasp from Hakodadi, received through another source, 
may prove to be the worker of this species : a description of it is 
therefore added. 
Ves])a simillima. Length 1 inch. Head reddish-yellow, the man- 
dibles and clypeus bright yellow ; the face black from the insertion of 
the antennae up to the summit of the eyes, the emargination of the eyes 
being yellow; a triangular yellow shape between the antenna?, which 
are bright fulvous beneath, and fuscous above ; the anterior margin of 
the clypeus slightly emarginate ; the teeth and inner margin of the 
mandibles black. The thorax black, covered with a short golden down, 
and, as well as the head, thinly sprinkled with erect fulvous hairs ; a 
ferruginous spot on each side of the prothorax, and a triangular one 
beneath the wings ; a minute spot of the same colour on each side of 
the metathorax, near the scutellum ; the tibise and tarsi reddish-yellow, 
with the claws black ; the wings sub-hyaline, the margins of the anterior 
pair ferruginous. Abdomen yellow ; the basal segment black, with a 
narrow yellow margin ; the second and following segments black at 
their basal margins, each one more narrowly so than the preceding ; 
the base of the two apical segments scarcely, if at all, visible ; the 
abdomen covered with a fine golden down, and sprinkled with erect 
fulvous hairs. 
British Museum, April, 1868. 
A feio more words on had spelling. — By way of further illustrating the subject 
glanced at in my note at p. 259 of vol. iv. of this Magazine, I have applied some 
simple corrections to the nomenclature of British Hetcroptera, as given in the latest 
Catalogue. If these were adopted, the whole system of names would be reduced, as 
far perhaps as is practicable, to the ordinary classical standard. In the other Orders 
it would be easy to effect a similar reformation. The barbarisms may be collected 
under the following general heads : — 
(1) Words without meaning, as Jalt.a, Mieis, Beosus, etc.,— Veelttsia, Arvelitts 
(anagrams of Valeeitts),— and all those formed by Amyot and Serville from 
Chinese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Arabic roots, diyersified by fancy spelling, are 
incurable, and are here omitted. 
