46 SAPYGIDE. 
Hellus prismua. Fab. Piez. 247. 5. 
Masaris crabroniformis, Panz. 47, 22. 
S ¢ Sapyga prisma. Klug, Monogr. Sir. Ger. 63. Pl. 7. f.7. 9. 8. 
& ; Latr. Hist. 13.273. 2; Nouv. Dict. 30. 179. 
Head, thorax and abdomen black, the two former coarsely 
punctured ; two yellow spots between the base of the antennz, 
which has its two extreme joints luteous beneath. 
Thorax pubescent, with a yellow, transverse, abbreviated line 
on each side, at the anterior margin of the collar; wings slightly 
coloured, the nervures black ; the legs black, with a longitudinal 
yellow mark on the outside of the base of all the femorz; the 
tarsi as well as tibiz simple. 
The abdomen with a yellow spot on each side of the second 
segment, a subinterrupted band on the third, an interrupted one 
upon the fourth, and a large central spot upon the sixth, yellow, 
as well as a transverse ovate mark on each side of the third and 
fourth ventral segments 9. 
The ¢ differs in having the antenne capitate and much longer 
than the thorax, with the underside of the joints from the fourth 
to the eleventh orange, the knob formed of two joints being quite 
black, the clypeus yellow. The thorax with only a yellow spot 
at the extreme angles of the collar; the anterior tibize with a 
yellow line in front, the others the same as in the 9g. The 
abdomen the same as in the 9, with the exception of the spot on 
the sixth segment of that sex being here removed to the seventh. 
The venter entirely black. The abdominal fasciz in both sexes 
are variable in size, interruption and intensity of colour. 
g¢. @ in my own and other Cabinets, 
+4+ The 9 of the preceding species was labelled S. prisma 
in many collections, in spite of Klug’s excellent description 
and figure; but a British specimen of the true one did not 
exist in any of the London cabinets until Mr. Newman 
captured a couple of each sex in Herefordshire, in 1833, 
when he very kindly presented me with a pair. I have 
