1. Icaria ferruginea, Sauss. Mon. Guêpes Soc. p. 37. 15.
Hab. India, Celebes.
2. Icaria pilosa. I. nigra, rude punctata et densissime pubescens, clypeo flavo, thorace, pedibus abdomineque ferrugineo variegatis; alis subhyalinis, anticis apice fusco maculatis.
Male. Length 7½ lines. Black; closely and strongly punctured; the clypeus, a line on the mandibles, and the scape in front, yellow; tips of the mandibles, the scape above, and the base of the flagellum ferruginous. Thorax: the prothorax, scutellum and postscutellum, ferruginous; the tegulæ and legs pale ferruginous, the coxæ black; wings fusco-hyaline, with a dark cloud in the marginal cell extending to the apex of the wing; a fainter cloud traverses the margin of the wing to its 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. Guêpes 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. Guêpes Soc. 69. 28. t. 6. f. 8.