216 CRABRONIDA. 
Head black, minutely punctured, pubescent ; antenne black, 
with the scape yellow in front, the pedicel entirely black, and 
the basal joints of the flagellum fulvous beneath ; a small yellow 
spot or line on each side of the lower part of the face at the 
margin of the eyes ; the clypeus with a broad transverse yellow 
stripe at the base ; and the labrum yellow at its anterior margin ; 
the mandibles piceous. 
The thorax black, minutely punctured; the incisure at the 
base of the scutellum-consute ; the metathorax obtuse, with the 
triangle at its base distinctly defined and longitudinally striated, 
beyond which it is coarsely rugose; the collar, a spot beneath 
the base of the wings, and a transverse line at the posterior 
margin of the scutellum, yellow, the latter sometimes obsolete ; 
the tegulze piceous ; the wings hyaline, with a cloud occupying 
the marginal, and a portion of the first and the entire second 
submarginal cells, the stigma and nervures testaceous ; the legs 
ferruginous, with the femora black, except towards the knees in 
front, the anterior pair yellow in front, the tibize with a piceous 
stain towards their apex behind, the pulvilli large and piceous; 
the anterior tarsi very strongly ciliated, and the intermediate 
and posterior tibize spinose. 
The abdomen black, delicately punctured, shining; with a 
yellow band on the margin of the four or five first segments, 
that of the first and second broadest, much dilated on the sides, 
but all narrow, and the second, third, and fourth generally con- 
tinued beneath ; the fifth frequently obsolete or entirely want- 
ing @. 
The ¢ differs in having the antenne entirely black, except 
the scape, which is yellow in front, and the pedicel, which has 
a minute yellow dot in front; the legs with the femora black, 
their apex ferruginous ; the tibiz yellow in front, ferruginous 
behind, with a long black stain towards their apex behind ; 
the anterior and intermediate tarsi yellow testaceous, with 
their extreme joints piceous at the extremity, the posterior pair 
piceous, with their basal joint ferruginous ¢. 
é in my own and other Cabinets. 
