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lengthways together. Abdomen black, except* the first segment, which is dark orange, margined with 

 yellow. Anterior femora dark brown, the other parts of those legs yellow. The other legs dark brown ; 

 the tips of the tibiee and the tarsi being yellow. 



POLISTES SQUAMOSA. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 7. 



Order : Hymenoptera. Section : Diploptera. Familt : Vespidoe, Leach. 

 Genus. Polistes, Fabi-. Vespa, Linn. Drury. 



PoLisTES Squamosa. Thoracis dorse nigro liiieis flavis, scutello flavo linea nigra, abdomine fulvo anDulo nigro 

 versus apicem. (Long. Corp. 10 lin.) 



Stn. Vespa Squamosus, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Polistes lineata? Fabr. Syst. Piez. 271. 9. Ent. Syst. 2. 250. 20. 



Habitat : New York. 



Head yellow ; but on the top, near the ocelli, black and hairy. Antennae shorter than the thorax, 

 dark brown, yellow next the head to the first joint, including about a third part. Thorax yellow, slightly 

 hairy ; having three black stripes on the top and two on each side meeting on the breast. Wings thin, 

 almost transparent, and doubled or folded longitudinally. Abdomen dark orange, with a black ring 

 next the anus, and two lesser ones near the thorax ; none of which are seen underneath, being there 

 entirely of a dark orange. Legs yellow, and furnished with two spines at the tips of the tibiae ; the 

 anterior having only one. 



POLYDESMUS (FONTARIA) VIRGINIENSIS. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 8. 



Order: Chilognatha, iafr«W«. Aptera, Linnaeus, Drury, Family : J ulidae. 



Genus. ¥oi.^j>^s,JiVS, Latreille, Brandt in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vol. &. Julus, JViAr. VonXar'ia, J. E. Gray. 



PoLYDESMUS (Fontaria) Virginieusis. Corpore pallide griseo, segmentis convexis, articulo pedum secundo 



acutiseimo. (Long. Corp. 1 une. G lin.) 

 Syn. Julus virginiensis, Drury, App. vol. 2. Pal. Bauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Apter.])l. 4. /. 5. p. 156. 



Julus tridentatus, Fabr. 



Fontaria Virginiensis, J^. E. Gray in Griff. An. K. Ins. pi. \Zt>.f. 1. 

 Habitat : Virginia. 



This insect is entirely wingless. Head circular and flat, placed under the first segment. Antennse 

 composed of five equal articulations. Body rounded at top, foi-ming an arch equal to one-fourth of a 

 circle, and consisting of nineteen rings or scales, which lie very closely over one another, the hinder 

 part of one exactly fitting the fore part of the next. Each of these scales, except some near the head, 

 have four short feet fixed to them ; the whole number of which is sixty. The general colour of the 

 insect is whitish grey ; the under part being lighter than the upper. Along the middle of the latter 

 runs a darker shade, having a single spot of a wainscot colour placed on the middle of each scale. 



