234 CRABRONIDE. 
2 Crabro 5-cinctus. Fab, M.1.295.11; Oliv. Ency. Méth. 6. 514. 13 ; 
Schrank, F. B. 2. 335. 2182. @. 
Philanthus quinquecinctus. Fab. E. 8. 291.9; Piez. 304. 15. @. 
—— letus. Fab. E. 8.2. 291.10; Piez. 305. 18. ¢. 
Vespu exultus et petulans. Harris, Expos. pl. 37. fig. 1, 2. 
1 Philanthus 4-fasciatus. Panz. F.G. 63.14; Fab. Piez. 305. 16. 
Cerceris leta. Curt. Brit. Ent. vol. 6. fol. 269. 
Head black, very coarsely punctured, pubescent; antennz 
black, the second joint beneath, the third entirely, and the fourth 
and fifth beneath, ferruginous; a spot on each side behind the 
posterior margin of the eyes, another large one within their 
orbits in front, a semicircular one in the centre of the clypeus, 
and a smaller one on each side of it, all yellow; the mandibles 
black. 
The thorax black, coarsely punctured ; a triangle at the base 
of the metathorax longitudinally striated, with a deep central 
incisure, beyond the triangle it is rugose ; the collar with a trans- 
verse line on each side, the tegule in front, the post-dorsolum, 
and an ovate vertical spot on each side of the metathorax, all 
yellow, the latter sometimes wanting; the base of the tegule 
piceous; the wings slightly fuscous, with their exterior margin 
and edge darker, the nervures testaceous, with the post-costal 
black ; the legs yellow testaceous, the anterior femora below and 
behind, the base of the intermediate, and the base and superior 
surface of the posterior pairs, black; the apical joints of the 
posterior tarsi piceous ; the anterior tarsi strongly ciliated, and 
all the tibiae very spinose. 
The abdomen black, deeply punctured; a small yellow spot 
on each side of the first segment, and a broad yellow band on 
the margins of the four following—that on the second deeply 
emarginate in front, the two following slightly attenuated in the 
middle, and the fourth waved in front—the lateral carinz on the 
sixth segment parallel, the intermediate surface rugose and 
opaque, and slightly produced at the apex ¢. 
The ¢ differs in having the entire face yellow, as well as the 
