396 HYMENOPTERA. 



Ceratocolus reticulatus, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 747. 6 $ ? 

 Hym. iii. 152. 6. 



Hab. France; Germany; Austria; Sweden. 



20. CRABRO SCUTATUS. B.M. 



Crabro scutatus, Fabr. Mant. i. 296. 15 $ ; Ent. Syst. ii. 298. 16. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 15. 22. 



Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 515. ]/. 



Van d. Lind, Obs. ii. 44. 5. 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 129. 3 $ $ . 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 329. 216. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 135. 13. 



Vespa scutata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 5. 2763. 116 <?. 

 Sphex palmaria, Schreb. Naturf. xx. 100. 6. t. 2. f . 9 <J . 

 Crossocerus scutatus, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii. 764. 1 < 

 (1834) ; Hym. iii. 168. 1. 



Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Belgium. 



21. CRABRO LATIPES. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Black : the head a little wider than the 

 thorax, much narrowed behind the eyes ; the stemmata placed in 

 a curve backwards on the vertex ; the clypeus yellow, with a black 

 carina in the middle ; the mandibles with a yellow stripe outside j 

 the scape white, with a black line behind, broad and narrowed at 

 the base; the flagellum subfusiform, concave beneath, and serrated 

 on the exterior. Thorax : the metathorax rugose ; the wings 

 fulvo-hyaline and iridescent, the nervures rufo-testaceous ; the 

 anterior legs have the trochanters a little dilated and flattened 

 beneath, and of a very pale yellow colour ; the femora pale yel- 

 low, broadly dilated, widest at their apex, at the base furnished 

 with two incurved acute teeth ; the tibiae dilated into large ob- 

 long concavo-convex plates, the lower posterior angle furnished 

 with an acute spine, the anterior margin pale yellow, behind 

 which it is entirely of a dusky brown, with two or three longitu- 

 dinal paler lines, at the base having a few narrow whitish streaks ; 

 the intermediate femora with a yellow stripe behind ; the tibiae 

 yellow, with a black stain at the base beneath ; the tarsi yellow; 

 the posterior legs have the tibiae and basal joint of the tarsi yel- 

 low outside. Abdomen : a pale yellow subinterrupted fascia on 

 the first and three following segments, that on the fifth conti- 

 nuous ; the sixth segment with an oblong spot on each side. 



Hab. Nova Scotia. (Coll. Lieut. Redman.) 



