ts base. Abdomen: the first, second and third segments with a
reddish-yellow fascia, that on the second segment continued beneath; a
longitudinal broad stripe of the same colour on each side of the second
segment; its apical margin serrated.

_Hab._ Celebes.

Genus POLISTES, _Latr._

1. Polistes sagittarius, _Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc._ p. 56. 12.

Various specimens from Greece and Celebes have the thorax more or less
ferruginous.

_Hab._ India, Celebes, China, Greece.

2. Polistes Picteti, _Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc._ 69. 28. t. 6. f. 8.

_Hab._ Ceram, Australia, Celebes.

3. Polistes fastidiosus, _Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc._ p. 60. 18.

_Hab._ Africa (Gambia), Celebes.

4. Polistes stigma, _Fabr. Syst. Piez._ p. 261. 41.

_Hab._ India, Ceram, Celebes.

5. Polistes Philippinensis, _Sauss. Mon. Guepes Soc._ 58. 14 (var.).

_Hab._ Philippine Islands.

Genus VESPA, _Linn._

1. Vespa affinis, _Fabr. Syst. Piez._ p. 254. 6 (var. _V. cincta_?).

_Hab._ India, China, Singapore, Celebes.

2. VESPA FERVIDA. _V._ nigra, delicatule punctata; clypei margine
antica, macula pone oculos, margineque postica segmenti primi abdominis
flavis; alis fulvo-hyalinis.

_Female._ Length 13 lines. Black; closely and finely punctured; the
clypeus convex and strongly punctured, emarginate anteriorly, the
emargination with a yellow border; the eyes extending to the base of the
mandibles, which have three stout teeth at their apex and a narrow
yellow line at their inner margin. Thorax: the postscutellum yellow, and
a minute yellow spot on the outer margin of the tegulae; the wings
rufo-hyaline, darkest along the anterior margin of the superior pair;
the nervures ferruginous, gradually becoming darker at the base of the
wings, the costal nervure black.

_Worker._ Length 9 lines. Very closely resembles the female, but in
addition to the yellow markings of that sex has the anterior margin of
the clypeus yellow, a narrow transverse line between the antennae,
another along the lower margin of the notch of the eyes, an abbreviated
stripe behind them at the base of the mandibles, a spot beneath the
postscutellum and a narrow yellow line along the posterior margin of the
basal segment of the abdomen.

_Hab._ Celebes.

Fam. TENTHREDINIDAE.

Genus TENTHREDO, _Linn._

1. TENTHREDO (ALLANTUS) PURPURATA. _T._ capite thoraceque
caeruleo-viridibus, abdomine purpureo, alis fuscis iridescentibus.

Size, length 4 lines. Head and thorax blue-