130 CRABRONIDA. 
Fab. Mant. 1. 296.15; Ent. Sys. 2. 298. 16; Piez. 312. 19; Panz. F. 
G. 15.22; Oliv. Eney. Méth. 6.515. 17; V.d. Lind, Pt. 2. 44. 5. @- 
Spher palmaria. Schreb. Naturforscher, 20. 100. 6, Pt. 2. fig. 9. a, b. 
Crossocerus scutatus, St. Farg. 3. 764.1. 3. 
gonager. St. Farg. 3. 785.22. ?var. ? 
The head black, delicately punctured, subpubescent, a longi- 
tudinal impression extending from the base of the antennz to 
the anterior stemma and continuing behind as far as the posterior 
ones; the stemmata placed in an equilateral triangle on the 
vertex; the antennz simple, black, the scape yellow, excepting 
a narrow piceous stripe above; the inner orbit of the eyes and 
clypeus covered with a silvery pubescence, the latter carinated 
in the centre and entirely yellow; the mandibles and lower 
portion of the cheeks also yellow, the former ferruginous at 
their apex. 
The thorax delicately punctured ; the metathorax having a 
cruciform impression, consute within, dilating at its base (the 
extreme base of the metathorax) into an impressed triangle 
longitudinally striated, the subcordiform space between it and 
the transverse line that forms the cross, shining, convex on each 
side, and obliquely striate on its lateral edges, the posterior 
portion of the metathorax smooth, shining, or very slightly 
transversely striated; the apex of the peristethium armed on 
each side with a minute tooth; the collar with a transverse line, 
the tubercles, a large lunule below, the neck beneath, the scu- 
tellum in front, and the pectus all yellow; the tegulz testaceous ; 
the wings slightly coloured, darker towards the edge, the nervures 
piceous ; the legs yellow ; the anterior tibize dilated into an ovate 
concavo-convex plate, covered with a short whitish pubescence, 
yellow on its anterior margin, its anterior apex with a piceous 
lunule and posteriorly pale and transparent; the first joint 
of the tarsi also dilated into a narrow lobe, which is black, and 
the extreme joints piceous; the intermediate femora and tibiz 
piceous within; the posterior cox black at the base, the femora 
entirely black, their tibize also. black except their base, and their 
tarsi piceous, with the base of the first joint yellow. 
