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Genus MONEDULA, Latr. 

 Monedula signata, Linn. 



Vespa signata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 952. 



Apis vespiformis, DeGeer, Ins. iii, p. 570; pi. 28. fig. 3. 



Bembex signata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 361 ; Syst. Piez. p. 223 ; Oliv. Ency. Meth. 



iv, p. 290. 

 Monedula signata, Latr. Gen. Cr. et Ins. iv, p. 100 ; St. Farg. & Serv. Ency. 

 Meth x, p. 49S; St. Farg. Hym. iii, p. 283; Dahlb. Hym. 

 Europ. i, p. 185 ; Guer. LaSagra's Hist. Cuba, Ins. p. 764. 

 Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Eight ( % $ ) specimens. 



Monedula insularis, Dahlb. 



Monedula insularis, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i, p. 186. 9 • 

 Female. — Black, clothed with cinereous pubescence, more dense on 

 the head and metathorax; the face, orbits, mandibles, and scape of an- 

 tennae beneath, yellow ; clypeus and labrurn pale greenish-yellow ; fla- 

 gellum of the antennae with a yellowish line beneath ; the collar, two 

 short lines on the mesothorax, a line over the tegulae, pectus, except a 

 black spot in front of the tubercles, continued to the collar in a narrow 

 undulating line, tegulae, tubercles, a large subtriangular spot on each 

 side of the pleura beneath the fore-wings, a'n elongate spot beneath the 

 hind wings, lateral margins of the scutellum, a semicircular line on the 

 metathorax interrupted on the truncation by around black spot, a huge 

 spot on each side behind, and a minute spot on each side near the base, 

 all yellow. Wings hyaline. Legs yellow, sometimes tinged with fer- 

 ruginous ; the trochanters, the intermediate coxae, except a triangular 

 yellow spot beneath, the posterior coxae, except an exterior yellow line, 

 a line on the anterior femora behind, base of the posterior femora, and 

 the tarsal claws, black. Abdomen black, shining, somewhat iridescent; 

 first segment with a transverse pale greenish-yellow mark on each side 

 about the middle, broad on each side, continued beneath, much nar- 

 rowed towards the middle above, and nearly meeting on the disk; four 

 following segments each with a transverse pale greenish-yellow fascia, 

 broad on each side and suddenly narruwed by a deep square emargina- 

 tion in front and on each side of the middle, and very slightly inter- 

 rupted on the disk, the emargination on the fourth and fifth segments 

 not so deep; sixth segment entirely black; beneath, the apical margins 

 of second to fifth segments are very narrowly pale yellowish, with a 

 large pale yellowish spot on each side. Length 7 i lines; expanse of 

 wings 12 lines. 



Var. 9 . — Short lines on mesothorax obsolete, the lines over the teg- 

 ulae narrow and interrupted, only a spot on each side of the scutellum, 

 semicircular line on the metathorax obsolete except a narrow line on 



