

HYMENOPTERA. 415 



117. CRABRO BASALIS. B.M. 

 Female. Length 4 lines. Black : the head closely punc- 

 tured ; the clypeus covered with silvery pubescence ; the scape 

 vellow, three or four of the basal joints of the flagellum of a 

 reddish-yellow ; the mandibles obscurely ferruginous. Thorax 

 longitudinally coarsely rugose, the metathorax behind, and at 

 the sides, transversely striate ; a spot on each side of the collar 

 and the tubercles yellow ; the wings slightly coloured, the ner- 

 vures and tegulse ferruginous ; the legs ferruginous, the anterior 

 tibiee yellowish. Abdomen closely punctured; the basal segment 

 ferruginous, the second, third, fourth and fifth segments with 

 an ovate pale yellow macula on each side; beneath, the first 

 and second segments and the extreme apex ferruginous. 



Hab. Polish Ukraine. 



118. CRABRO CINXIUS. 



Crabro cinxius, DaJilb. Hym. Europ. i. 318. 199. 

 Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 129. 4. 



Hab. Norway. 



119. CRABRO LAPPONICUS. 



Crabro lapponicus, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 443. 3 ? . 

 Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 363. 235. 



Hab. Lapland ; Norway. 



120. CRABRO MELANARIUS. 



Crabro podagricus, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 339. 222 (nee Shuck.). 

 Crabro melanarius, Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 133. 



Hab. Sweden. 



121. CRABRO SULPHUREIPES. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Black : the head as large as the 

 thorax, finely punctured, the sides swollen ; the clypeus covered 

 with silvery pubescence ; the scape and mandibles yellow, their 

 tips rufo-piceous. Thorax closely punctured, the "metathorax 

 rugose, with a longitudinal channel extending from the base to 

 the apex ; the collar, tubercles, scutellum, post-scutellum, and 

 legs of a sulphur-yellow; the coxa, trochanters, and extreme 

 base of the femora, black ; the wings fulvo-hyaline ; the collar 

 produced on each side into a sharp subdentate angle. Abdomen 

 with three broad yellow bands, the first at the base of the second 

 segment and subintermpted; the second at the base of the fourth, 



