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the New Forest. The 9 is not uncommon in pathways, in 
Battersea Fields, especially where Cerceris ornata nidifi- 
cates ; but I have not yet captured the ¢. 
Sr. 81. Panzer. V. d. Lind. 
niger, stemmatibus in lineam curvam posilis, capite magno, me- 
tathoracis basi longitudinaliter striato, abdomine ovato-conico. 
$ margine infero capitis utrinque spind armato. 
length 1—3} lines. 
V. d. Lind. pt. 2. 67. 29. 
Crabro scutatus 9. Panz. F. G. 9. 15. 23. 
Lindenius Panzeri. St. Farg. 3. 798. 8. 
Black, pubescent; the head wider than the thorax, quadrate ; 
the stemmata placed in a curve, an obsolete impressed line ex- 
tending from the anterior one to the sulcation of the face, and 
another behind it reaching to the occiput; the scape of the an- 
tenne entirely and the mandibles yellow, the latter rufescent 
at their apex; the clypeus and internal orbits covered with a 
silvery pubescence. 
The thorax punctured and pubescent ; the metathorax having 
the subcordiform space at its base longitudinally striated ; an 
interrupted line upon the collar, a spot upon the scutellum, and 
the tubercles yellow ; the tegule testaceous ; the wings hyaline, 
a little darker towards their apex, and nervures piceous; legs 
yellow, with their coxz, trochanters, femora, and exterior of the 
four anterior tibia, and extremity of the posterior pair, black, 
the terminal joints of the tarsi rufescent ; the tibia, especially 
the posterior ones, very spinose, and the anterior tarsi ciliated. 
The abdomen smooth and shining, with an zneous tinge, and 
the base of the segments covered laterally with a dense grey 
pubescence ; the terminal segment rufescent ¢. 
The ¢ differs only in having the head larger, a spine on each 
side beneath the cheeks; the scape of the antennz black, with 
merely a lateral yellow streak, and seldom any yellow on the 
