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black. Halleres tawny. Abdomen clothed with short pale tawny 

 hairs ; segments beset on each side with tufts of tawny bristles ; hind 

 borders hoary ; tip black, shining. Legs black ; femora clothed with 

 short pale tawny hairs, beset with pale tawny and black bristles ; 

 tibia; luteoiis with black tips, clothed like the tarsi with black hairs 

 and bristles. Male. Abdomen blue towards the tip. 

 Not common. (E. I.) 



11. germanicus, L. s. n. ii. (1763); Fb. ; Shr. ; Pz. ; Gm. ; 

 Fin.; Mg. ; Ct. ! b. c. i. 46; Mq. ; ZU. ; Ztt. ; Lw.— ^/iiWw, Fb. 

 Niger, antennis nigris, thorace fulvo fusco-quadrivittato apice cano, alis 

 fuscis basi albis, pedi1)us luteis, tibiis tarsisque apice femoribusque 

 nigris. Long. 7-8 ; alar. 13-15-lin. 



Black, clothed with tawny hairs, covered here and there mth tawny 

 down. Head thickly clothed beneath with pale tawny haii's ; cpistoma 

 very convex, beset with black bristles, and towards the peristoma with 

 tawny bristles. First and second joints of the antennae clothed \nth 

 black hairs. Thorax with a tawny covering, which is interrupted by 

 4 dark brown stripes, the inner pair of stripes almost united, the 

 outer pair inteiTupted ; hind part with a hoary covering ; sides and 

 scuteUum beset with a few black bristles. Wings brown, white for 

 nearly half the length from the base ; veins black, tawny towards the 

 base. Halteres yellow. Legs luteous ; femora and tips of the tibiaj 

 and of the tarsi black. Male. Facets of the fore parts of the eyes 

 smaller than in the other species. 



Rare. (E. S.) 



12. crabroniformis, L. fn. 1008 (1761); Fb. ; Gfr. ; Mg. ; 

 LI. ; Flu. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; Lw. Fidvus, capite aureo, antennis nigris, 

 thorace fusco-quadiivittato, alis fulvis, areolarum discis margine postico 

 fuscis, abdomine nigro, segmentorum marginibus posticis utrinque 

 albidis, ventre apiceque ferrugineis, femoribus rufo-fuscis. Long. 

 11-12; alar. 20-22 lin. 



Bright tawny, clothed with tawny hairs. Head gold-colour, thickly 

 clothed beneath with golden hairs ; epistoma very convex, beset with 

 numerous tawny bristles ; a fringe of tawny bristles behind the eyes. 

 Antennee black ; first and second joints tawny ; first joint beset with 

 black bristles ; second with a few tawny bristles. Thorax with 4 

 brown stripes, the outer pair shorter, broader, and less distinct than 

 the inner pair ; pectus and metathorax reddish-brown. Wings tawny ; 

 discs of the areolets brown along the hind border; veins tawny. 

 Halteres tawny, with black tips. First, second, and third segments 

 of the abdomen black, clothed with black hairs, whitish and clothed 

 with pale hairs on each side of the hind borders of the segments ; 

 underside ferruginous. Femora and liind tibiai reddish-brown, the 

 latter sometimes tawny. Male. Tip of the abdomen ferruginous. 

 Fem. Tip of the abdomen brown. 



Generally distributed. (E.) 



