280 MODERN SYSTEMi 



giuate, with a tooth ou each side : abdomen ovoid-conic, with the 

 base abruptly truncated, and very shortly pedunculated. 



Sp. 1. Vespa Crubro (hornet). (P/. i^.fig. 8.) 



Vespa Crabro. Linnc, &c. 



Inhabits Europe, building its nest in hollow trees. 



Sp. 2. Vespa vulgaris (connnon wasp). 



Vespa vulgaris of aidhoi's. 



Inhabits Europe, building its nest in holes under ground. 



Sp. 3. Vespa Britannica. 



Vespa Britannica. Leach, Zool. Misccl. vol. i. 



Inhabits Britain, and builds a nest suspended from trees. 



Division II. — Hinder feet polHnigerons ; their farsi with the first joint 

 compressed, c/ongate-(jiiadrate or obtrigonous. 



Earn. XMII. ANDiiEKiDiE. Lcaqh. 



Andkeket.'E. Lalreille. 

 JjXv^vje. pollinivorous. 



Lip with the apex subcordatc or subhastatc, on each side wilh one au- 

 ricle ; nearly straight, or slightly incurved in some, reflexed in others, 

 shorter than the sheathing tube : palpi alike. 



Stirps 1. — Lip with the apex dilated, somewhat cordiform. 



Genus 466. COLLETES. Lutr., lllig., Spinola, Leach. Apis. 

 Linne, Oliv., Villcrs. Anduena. Fabr., Jurine. Il"iL.tLJS. 

 Cuv. EvoDiA. Panz. Melitta. * a. Kirby. 

 Hinder fet pollinigerous : superior wings with three sui)Uiarginal cells : 

 anfennic with the third joint longer than the second : abdomen nuicli 

 elongated, more or less villose : ocelli forming a curved line : tongm 

 obtuse, the apex bilobate. 

 Sp. 1. Col. succinctu. Eatr. 



Melitta succincta. Kirbi/. Evodia calendarum, Fanz. 

 Inhabits . 



Stirps 2. — Lip with the intermediate process lanceolate, acute. 



a. Lip when at rest dcflexed. 



* Superior wings with two submarginal cells. 



Genus 407. DASYPODA. Lutr., Fabr., Panz., Tllig., Spinola, 

 Klug, Leach. Axdke.va. Rossi. Apis. Christus. Trachisa. 

 Jurine. Melitta. Kirbj/. 

 Maxillcc inflexed at their middle, or below, their terminal process tri- 

 angular-lanceolate, and longer than their palpi : hinder feet with the 

 first joint of their tarsi as long or longer than the tibiie. 

 Sp. 1. Das. plumipes. 



