XXI. CRABRO. 135 
Sp. 7. crpHatotes. Fab. 
niger, flavo-maculatus, clypeo aurato, metathorace rugoso, tibiis 
intermediis flavis $ &. 
& articulis antennarum subtus emarginatis. 
length 5£—7 lines. 
Fab. Piez. 308.5. 9 ; V.d. Lind. pt. 2. 55. 13. ¢ 9; St. Farg. 3. 
697.1. $ ¢. 
Panz. F. G. 62. 16. 9 ? 
Crabro sexcinctus. V.d. Lind. pt. 2. 145.13. ¢ 9. 
Panz. F. G. 64. 13. g ? 
Head black, large, subquadrate, minutely and closely punc- 
tured, pubescent, slightly shining; the vertex between the eyes 
concave; the stemmata placed in a triangle in its centre, an ele- 
vated longitudinal ridge between the posterior ones, having a 
central delicate longitudinal impressed line extending nearly to 
the occiput, a slight carina in front of the anterior one passing 
to the verge of the vertex; the antennz black, with their scape 
entirely yellow; the face deeply canaliculated, smooth, and on 
each side the orbits of the eyes within, the clypeus (which is 
strongly carinated in the centre, emarginate in front, and bisinuate 
on each side), and the lower sides of the cheek, covered with a 
dense golden pubescence. less thickly set on the latter; the 
mandibles yellow, with their apex piceous. 
Thorax black, pubescent, the dorsolum with a central longi- 
tudinal slight carina, thickly and rather delicately longitudinally 
striated; the scutellum smooth and shining at its base, then 
punctured and posteriorly longitudinally striate ; the metathorax 
with two or three longitudinal slight carine, the interstices of 
which are smooth, and which dilate, forming a small diamond 
shaped inclosure about its middle, the sides of the whole length 
of these carinz rather delicately reticulated, the extreme posterior 
portion transversely striate, the anterior half separated in the 
form of a semicircle by an obsolete ridge; the peristethium 
longitudinally striated at its base and sides; its posterior ex- 
tremity covered with scattered punctures and shining, and having 
