HYMENOPTEEA. 
17 
Tribe—DIPLOPTERA. 
Family—^ UMENIDJE. 
45. PtEEOCHILTJS ALBO-EASCIATrS, Eig. 12. 
Eemina,—P. niger, capite tJioraceque albo-variegatis‘, abdominis segmentis albo-marginatis. 
Black; head as wide as the thorax, strongly and closely punctured; the clypens 
porrect and rngosely punctate, its anterior margin truncate; the mandibles tridentate, the 
teeth obscurely rufo-piceous; a small suhovate white spot above the eyes on the vertex. 
The prothorax white above; the mesothorax and scutellum coarsely punctured; a white 
line crosses the post-scutellnm and curves up towards the insertion of the posterior wings, 
which are fusco-hyaline and darkest along the forehorder of the anterior pair; legs black. 
Abdomen suhovate; the basal segment campanulate and having a broad white fascia on its 
apical margin, which is slightly notched in the middle; the second segment has also a broad 
fascia, which is curved up laterally towards the base of the segment; the three following 
segments have each a similar broad white fascia. Eemale, length 5|- lin es. 
Kab. —Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan. Taken in April. 
This is a genus of small extent; about twenty species are described; it occurs in Europe, 
a single species being found in Russia, another in Germany, and one in Switzerland; species 
have been found in Algeria, the Cape of Good Hope, Chili, and the United States. 
Family— 
46. PoLiSTES CHiNENSis, Eahr. 
Polistes chinensis, Fabr,, Syst. Piez., 270. 
„ „ Sauss., Mon. Guepes Soe., 56, tab. 7, fig. 2. 
Sab. —Yeighhourhood of Yarkand. Taken in May. Hong-Kong; Shanghai. 
Specimens from Yarkand are frequently more marked with yellow spots than any 
I have seen from China, whilst others exactly resemble Chinese ones, which do not appear 
ever to have any yellow spots on the mesothorax, which the Indian examples usually have- 
The genus Folistes is cosmopolitan, hut no species has been found in the United Kingdom; 
species occur in South Europe, in India, China, Borneo, in the Islands of the Eastern 
Archipelago, in Africa, Australia and Tasmania, Brazil, Central America, Mexico, and North 
America; from seventy to eighty species are known 
47. Vespa geemanioa. 
Vespa germanica, Fabr., Syst, Piez., 256. 
,> ,, Pauz., Faun. Germ., 49, 20, § . 
„ „ St. Farg., Hym., i, 515. 
„ ,) Ratz., Forst. Ins., Bd. hi, 51. 
Smith, ZooL, ix.. Append, clxxvii. 
1 ) }} Sauss., Mon. Guepes Soc., 116, pt. xiv, fig. 4. 
Sab. —Europe. Bound at Sanju, and in its neighbourhood; also at Yangihissar, Eastern 
Turkestan. 
