214 CRABRONID. 
Sp. 2. Farce. N. Sp. 
niger, prothorace, lined sub scutello, segmentis quatuor abdominis 
fascia, tibiis tarsisque flavis. 
$ antennis thorace longioribus. 
length 44—53 lines. 
Gorytes campestris. St. Farg. Ann. de la S. E. de Fr. 1. 
? quadrifasciatus. V.d. Lind. (description of ¢ at the bottom of 
the page and not the 9 or synonymes.) 
Mellinus quadrifasciatus. Panz. F. G. 98.17. ¢. 
Arpactus quadrifasciatus, (his 9, which is a ¢, and only the reference 
to the above figure). Panz. Revis. 2. 165. 
Head black, punctured, pubescent ; antennz entirely black ; 
the clypeus with a broad transverse yellow band at its base ; the 
labrum fringed with long red sete ; the mandibles black, with 
their apex piceous. 
The thorax black, punctured, pubescent; a scratch on each 
side of the dorsolum, parallel with the epaulet of the tegule ; 
the incisure at the base of the scutellum consute; the triangle at 
the base of the metathorax not strongly defined, and longitudi- 
nally striate, rugose beyond, having a central longitudinal very 
deep impression, and truncated posteriorly ; the collar, tubercles, 
a lunule beneath the base of the wings and the post-dorsolum, 
yellow; the tegulz testaceous ; the wings slightly fuscous, with 
a slightly darker stain occupying the marginal cell, the stigma 
and nervures testaceous ; the legs with the femora black, except 
the knees, which, with the outsides of the tibia, are yellow, the 
inside of the tibiae testaceous, with a piceous stain, and the tarsi 
also testaceous ; the legs entirely simple. 
The abdomen black, with a yellow band occupying the mar- 
gins of the first, second, third, and fourth segments, waved in 
front and much broader at the sides, but the extreme margin of 
the first segment testaceous, and the fifth segment having some- 
times a small transverse abbreviated line ¢. — 
The ¢ differs in having a silvery pubescence on the clypeus ; 
_ the antennze a little longer than the head and thorax together ; 
