XXI. CRABRO. 151 
Spe. 14. pimipiatus. Fab. 
niger, flavo-maculatus, abdomine aperte petiolato. 
length 45—6 lines. 
Fab. Ent. Syst. 2. 298. 19; Piez. 313. 24; V. d. Lind. p. 2. 58. 20 ; 
Oliv. Ency. Méth. 6. 516. 24. 
Crabro signatus. Panz. F. G. 43.15. 9. 
Blepharipus signatus. St. Farg. 3. 731. 4. 
Head black, subpubescent, smooth, or with a very few minute 
scattered punctures, and shining; the stemmata placed in a 
triangle towards the posterior margin of the vertex, with a small 
elevation between the posterior pair, and a slight longitudinal 
line extending from the front of the anterior one to the verge 
of the vertex, which is slightly concave ; the anterior and pos- 
terior margins of the vertex and the sides next the eyes elevated, 
presenting a subquadrate superficies, the inner portion of which 
between the eyes and stemmata is concave ; the antenne black, 
the scape yellow, with a black stain above; the face very 
slightly canaliculated ; the inner orbits, the lower portion of the 
cheeks, and clypeus, covered with a dense silvery down, the 
latter with sometimes a yellow spot on each side of its base, and 
its centre has a longitudinal carina; the mandibles generally 
black at their base, then yellow, and their apex rufo-piceous, or 
sometimes entirely black, with their apex piceous. 
The thorax black, pubescent; the dorsolum minutely and 
densely punctured, having in the centre, at its base, two very 
close parallel impressed lines extending to the disk; the scu- 
tellum punctured; the metathorax with a subcordate, smooth 
and shining space, which is enclosed all round by a consute 
incisure, and a longitudinal one down its centre, which dilates 
beyond it into a fossulet; the posterior portion of the meta- 
thorax, on each side of this fossulet, pubescent, with a few 
scattered delicate punctures, and shining; the collar with a 
transverse band, the apex of the tubercles, a spot on each side 
of the scutellum, and the post-dorsolum, generally yellow ; the 
tegulz piceous; the wings coloured, their nervures piceous ; 
