XXX. GORYTES. 219 
+++ My specimens of this beautiful species were cap- 
tured in the New Forest. Mr. Stephens does not re- 
member where his were taken. Van der Linden has again 
here caused confusion by associating this very distinct in- 
sect with Panzer’s Mellinus arenarius. 
Se. 5. Bicrnctus. Rossi. 
ater, antennis subtds ferrugineis, articulo primo flavo ; pro- 
thorace, abdomine fascus duabus, primo segmento (coarctato) 
puncto utrinque flavis. . 
length 33—42 lines. 
V. d. Lind. pt. 2.93.7; Curtis, Brit. Ent. V. 11. pl. 524. 
Crabro bicinctus. Rossi, F. Etr. App. 123. 110. 
Lestiphorus bicinctus. St. Farg. Ann. de la 8. E. de F. 1. 70. 1. 
Head black, opaque, very delicately punctured ; the antenn 
very slender, black, the scape beneath yellow, the clavolet pale- 
fuscous beneath, excepting the two or three last joints; the 
lower portion of the face beneath the antennz, the clypeus and 
labrum, yellow ; the mandibles with a small fuscous spot about 
their middle. 
The thorax black, very delicately punctured; the dorsolum 
having two slightly impressed longitudinal lines at its base, ex- 
‘tending to the disk; the triangular space at the base of the 
metathorax longitudinally striate, with a carina in the centre; 
the collar, tubercles, and two spots at the scutellum, yellow ; 
the wings with the stigma fulvous, the nervures piceous, a dark 
cloud occupying the marginal, second submarginal, and a por- 
tion of the third discoidal cells ; the legs black, with the apex 
of the anterior coxe and trochanters and the femora and tibie 
entirely, beneath, yellow, the intermediate femora with their 
apex beneath, and their tibiz entirely beneath, also yellow ; 
the posterior tibize with their extreme base beneath fulvous ; 
the anterior and intermediate tarsi fulvous, the last joint of the 
latter piceous, and the posterior ones entirely so, the pulvilli of 
