V. SAPYGA. 45 
clypeus, sometimes forming a lunule, or entirely wanting, and 
another mark of the same colour lining the lower portion of the 
emargination of the eyes. 
Thorax with a lacteous transverse line on each side of the 
anterior margin of the collar towards the angles; wings slightly 
coloured, with the extreme margin of the superior ones more 
deeply, and the nervures black; legs black and entirely simple. 
Abdomen punctured, with the basal segment, or merely its 
base, black, the two following red with their margins piceous, 
and the remainder black,—a lacteous ovate spot placed trans- 
versely on each side in the middle of the fourth and fifth seg- 
ments, the former being the largest, and a still larger one in the 
centre of the sixth segment; the two first ventral segments with 
a black longitudinal band, the third entirely rufous, 
The ¢ differs in having the whole of the clypeus lacteous, the 
underside of the fourth to the ninth joints of the antennz luteous, 
and the abdomen black, with a transverse ovate lacteous spot 
placed on each side in the middle of the second, third, fourth 
and fifth segments ; those on the second and fifth segments some- 
times wanting; a transverse line of the same colour on each side 
of the third and fourth ventral segments. 
In most Cabinets. 
{4+ It is found almost everywhere in the Spring, and 
towards Midsummer, upon palings and outhouses, &c. but 
I never saw it settle upon a flower. St. Fargeau says he 
has taken it with a larva, which it dropt on being captured. 
I have caught it also entering the cells of Osmia bicornis, 
in a sandy Lane at Bexley in Kent. 
Sp. 2. ciavicornis. Lin. 
nigra, abdomine flavo fasciato $ &. 
length 43 lines. 
& @ Curtis, B. Ent. vol. xi. Pl. 532. 
Apis clavicornis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 953. 3. F.S. 1686. 
Q Scolia prisma, Fab. Mant. 1. 282, 21; Ent. Syst. 2, 236. 31. 
