218 CRABRONID. 
parallel longitudinal impressed lines extending from the base of 
the dorsolum to the disk ; the metathorax very rugose, and ob- 
tusely truncated ; the epaulet over the tegule and the incisure 
at the base and posterior margin of the scutellum, consute ; 
the collar, a spot beneath the base of the wings, a minute dot 
in the middle of the epaulet, and a transverse line on the scu- 
tellum, yellow ; the wings slightly coloured, the stigma and ner- 
vures testaceous, the marginal cell and proximate parts of the 
submarginal cells ovcupied by a dark cloud; the legs yellow, 
the anterior and intermediate femora above, and the posterior 
entirely, black, excepting towards their apex above; all the 
tibize black on the exterior ; the apex of the anterior and inter- 
mediate tarsi piceous, the posterior ones entirely so; the an- 
terior pair strongly ciliated, and the tibiee slightly spinose. 
The abdomen black, shining, with a broad yellow band oc- 
cupying the margin of the four first segments, the second being 
much the broadest, slightly emarginate in front; the second, 
third, and fourth continued narrowly on the margin of the ventral 
segment, the first of these the widest 9. 
The ¢ differs in having the antenne entirely black, with the 
exception of a slight yellow spot beneath the scape ; the clypeus 
covered with a silvery pubescence; the palpi yellow; the 
tubercles black; a yellow spot beneath the base of the wings ; 
the scutellum entirely black ; the nervures of the wings piceous ; 
the legs black, with the anterior and intermediate femora at their 
apex in front, the front and knees of their tibize, and their tarsi, 
yellow, the apical joint piceous, the knees of the posterior pair 
ferruginous, their tibize yellow beneath, and their tarsi en- 
tirely black ; the fifth segment of the abdomen has on its margin 
a yellow band abbreviated at the sides, and the sixth and seventh 
are covered with a fuscous pubescence, 
@ @ in my own and Mr. Stephens’s 
Cabinets; and ¢ in that of Mr. 
Curtis. 
