44. SAPYGIDA, 
in it a Scolia of Fabricius, who however did not adopt it 
in either of his subsequent works; but in his last, upon 
the Hymenoptera, viz. the “ Syst. Piezatorum,” he insti- 
tuted the genus Hellus, making Sapyga sexpunctata his 
type, which was adopted by Panzer in his “ Revision.” I 
remember to have seen somewhere, but I cannot now recol- 
lect where, that Illiger divides these insects into two sections 
from the long and subcapitate antennz of the ¢ of S. clavi- 
cornis. St. Fargeau remarks, that the ¢ of this genus form 
holes in the mortar of walls or in putrescent wood, to de- 
posit their eggs and provision them with prey. 
Type, S. punctata. 
Sr. 1. puncrata. Klug. 
nigra, abdomine rufo, punctis transversis albis 2. 
nigro —. ¢. 
length 44—5} lines. 
Klug, Monogr. Siricum Germania, 61. Pl. 7. fig. 4. 9.n,.5&6 4; 
Lat. Hist. 13. 272; Spinola, 1. 76.1; Panz. 100.17; Guer. Pl. 69. 
Tells 
Seapunctata. Lat. Nouv. Dict. Ed. 2. 30. 179. 
¢ quadripunctata, Panz. 87. 20. 
Decipiens. St. Fargeau, Ency. Méth. 10. 338.2; Klug, Pl. 7. f. 6. 
Decemguttata. Jurine, Pl. 9. Genus 13. 
Scolia quadriguttata. Fab. Spec. 454.15; Ent. Syst. 2. 235, 29. 
serguttata. Fab. Ent. Syst. 2. 235. 30. 
Sphea quadriguttata. Vill. 3. 240. 52. 
Hellus quadriguttatus. Fab. Piez. 247. 3. 
9 Sapyga varia. St. Fargeau, 10. 338.2? © 
Scolia quinquepunctata. Fab. Spec. 1. 453. 14; Ent. Syst. 2.235. 27 ; 
Villers, 3. 240. 5]. 
Sirex pacca. Fab. Mantissa, 1. 258. 15; Ent. Syst. 2.129. 17; Villers, 
3. 131. 11. 
Hellus secpunctatus. Fab. Piez. 246. 1. 
-—— pacca ——_—— 247. 6. 
Head and thorax black, pubescent, and coarsely punctured ; 
antenne black, slightly piceous beneath, with a lacteous spot 
between them at their base, one on each side at the base of the 
