8. Eumenes kangrae Dover, 1925

(FigS 31–36)

Eumenes pomiformis var. kangrae Dover, 1925: 293, ♂, “ Kangra Valley, Punjab ” [= Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh] (BMNH).

Eumenes kangrae; Giordani Soika, 1941: 222, ♀ (notes on type ♀; in subgenus Eumenes); Giordani Soika, 1960: 160 (key); Giordani Soika, 1986a: 155 (China).

Diagnosis. ♂. Punctation of T2 fine and dense (Fig. 36); propodeum and T1 extensively ferruginous; body with fairly extenSiVe yellow markingS; clypeUS relatiVely elongate (Fig. 33); T2, in profile (Fig. 31), little Swollen in middle, weakly impreSSed preapically and apical margin Slightly reflected; tegUla normal; dorSal Side of pronotUm conVex aS USUal; apical antennal article broadened at baSe, Sharply pointed at apex and reaching to middle of 10th article in cUrVed poSition (Fig. 34).

Colour description. Body black with yellow and ferrUginoUS markingS. Yellow: mandible except at baSe; clypeUS; mark on interantennal Space, broadened at lower fronS and extended to baSe of clypeUS; linear mark on inner orbit below ocUlar SinUS (SometimeS abSent); linear mark on temple towardS Vertex; Ventral Side of Scape; broad band on pronotUm and margin of pronotUm adjacent to meSoScUtUm; tegUla; parategUla; ScUtellUm; Spot on meSopleUron; Small and large Spot on SideS of propodeUm; apex of fore and mid femora; fore and mid tibia; oUter Side of fore and mid baSitarSUS; two lateral SpotS at middle and apical band on T1; two large baSo-lateral SpotS and medially and laterally narrowed, broad apical band on T2; broad apical band on S2; narrow apical bandS on T3-T6 and S3-S6. FerrUginoUS: flagellar SegmentS except dorSal Side of median SegmentS black; Varying degree of markingS on pronotUm and propodeUm; baSe of T1 except at extreme baSe black; Ventral Side of petiole almoSt entirely; SometimeS Varying degree of markingS on T2 & S2. WingS almoSt hyaline except for weak infUmation at marginal cell. Body length: 9-10 mm.

♀. Not StUdied.

Material examined. INDIA: Himachal PradeSh, Kangra Valley, Alt. 4500 ft., 2 ♂, Vi.1899, Coll. DUdgeon, ZSIK Regd. Nos. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8307 & 8308; Chamba district, Rajpura riverside, 1 ♂, 25.vi.2012 , Coll. D. Banerjee & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.8309. Sikkim, SoUth Sikkim diStrict, Jorethang, 1 ♂, 10.xi.1994 , Coll. G.C. Sen & Party, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/WGRS/I.R-INV.8310.

Distribution. India: Himachal PradeSh, * Sikkim; China: GUangdong.