938 CRABRONIDA. 
Sp. 3. invrerrupta. Fanz. 
niger, flavo-maculatus, clypet divisione medid convexd antice tan- 
iam excavatd, abdomine fasciis quinque flavis, pedibus ferru- 
gineis. 
$ clypeo plano, pedibus flavis. 
length 35—6 lines. 
V. d. Lind. pt. 2. 113. 7. 
? Philanthus interruptus. Panz. F. G. 63. 17. 9. 
quinguecinctus. Panz. F. G. 63. 12. (the figure without 
the references) 3. 
The head black, punctured; the antenne with the scape 
entirely black or piceous in front only, the second black above, 
and the remainder fuscous above, and all ferruginous beneath, 
with the terminal one also above ; the central lobe of the clypeus 
very convex and excavated in front, above yellow, as also a 
semicircular mark on each side within the eyes and another be- 
hind them above; the mandibles with their base yellow and 
apex piceous. 
The thorax black, punctured, shining ; the triangular space at 
the base of the metathorax longitudinally striated; a large dot 
on each side of the collar, the tegulee, and post-dorsolum, all 
yellow; the wings subfuscous, darker towards the apex; the 
stigma and nervures testaceous; the legs flavo-ferruginous, with 
* the coxe, trochanters, and extreme base of the two anterior 
pairs of femora, and sometimes of the posterior ones, black. 
The abdomen black, punctured, and shining; with a yellow 
band on the margin of each of the five first segments, either all 
entire or all interrupted; the anal segment entirely black and 
the central carinze widest apart at their base, and the plane be- 
tween them punctured and opaque ¢. 
The ¢ differs in having the face beneath the antenne, the 
inner orbits of the eyes, the carina between the antennz, with 
the first joint of the latter in front, all yellow; the flagellum of 
the antennz black above, the penultimate joint produced above 
at its apex, and the last slightly lunulate; the legs yellow; the 
