. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history; Natuurlijke historie; Sociale geschiedenis; Culturele antropologie. The Genus Eumenes, Latreille, in South Africa. 507 from the preapical swelling ; the preapical thickening is preceded on the middle line by a transverse, shallow depression. Puncturation quite dense and moderately coarse on head and thorax, including the propodeum ; metapleura, epicnemial face of mesopleura, and tegulae smooth and nearly impunctate. Clypeus smooth and shiny, im- punctate except in its upper half, where there are a fe


. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history; Natuurlijke historie; Sociale geschiedenis; Culturele antropologie. The Genus Eumenes, Latreille, in South Africa. 507 from the preapical swelling ; the preapical thickening is preceded on the middle line by a transverse, shallow depression. Puncturation quite dense and moderately coarse on head and thorax, including the propodeum ; metapleura, epicnemial face of mesopleura, and tegulae smooth and nearly impunctate. Clypeus smooth and shiny, im- punctate except in its upper half, where there are a few, scattered, fine punctures. First and second tergites fairly uniformly covered with medium-sized and moderately dense punctures, which are some-. Em. 4.—Eumenes peringeyanus, A. v. Schulthess. A, female in profile ; B, anterior view of head of female ; C, first and second tergites of female from above ; D, terminal segments of male antenna. what larger along the middle of the first tergite and become quite fine and scattering on the sides of the second. Pubescence long, erect, dense, greyish-white on head and thorax, somewhat silvery on clypeus, sides of thorax, propodeum, and legs ; short but dense on abdomen. Black, abundantly marked with ferruginous and yellow as follows : clypeus yellow, more orange in the upper part, where it shades into ferruginous in the centre ; a yellow elongate mark between the antennae ; a yellow line along the outer orbits in the upper half of the temples ; mandibles and antennae ferruginous, the tip of the scape and the 7th to 12th segments above blackish brown ; pronotum ferruginous, broadly yellow along the anterior, and narrowly so along. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum


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