104 GORYTES FARGEII. 



piceous, increasing in colour from their base ; the band on 

 the margin of the second segment rarely interrupted in the 

 middle. 



This is a very abundant insect during the months of May and 

 June ; it frequents hedge-rows, preferring those at wood-sides, 

 where it settles on leaves and flowers, particularly on the Wood- 

 spurge. Shuckard captured it with the larva of Aphrophora. I 

 have more than once seen it conveying a small Lepidopterous 

 larva. It is found in all parts of the kingdom. 



2. Gorytes Fargeii. 



6. niger ; prothorace, linea subscutello, segmentis quatuor ab- 

 dominis fascia, tibiis tarsisque flavis. 



Mellinus quadrifasciatus, Panz. Faun. Germ. 98. 17c?. 



Arpactus quadrifasciatus, Panz. Krit. Revis. ii. 1C5. 



Gorytes campestris, St. Farg. Ann.Soc.Ent. Fr.\. 58. 2(nec Linn.). 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 168. 99. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 58. 2. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 85. 2. 

 Gorytes Fargeii, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 214. 2. 



Female. Length 4-5 lines. — Black ; the head and thorax shining 

 and closely punctured ; the clypeus with a broad yellow band 

 at its base ; the labrum fringed with fulvous setae ; tips of the 

 mandibles dark ferruginous. Thorax : the mesothorax with a 

 scratch on each side parallel with the epaulet of the tegulse ; the 

 incisure at the base of the scutellum consute ; the subdefined 

 triangular space at the base of the metathorax longitudinally 

 striated and rugose beyond, with a deep central longitudinal 

 impression, the apex truncated ; the collar, tubercles, a lunule 

 beneath the wings, and the post-scutellum, yellow ; the wings 

 slightly coloured and iridescent, a slight cloud occupying 

 the marginal cell, and passing along the apical edge of the 

 wings ; the stigma and nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; the tibiae 

 and tarsi yellow, the former with a dark stain beneath ; the 

 legs simple. Abdomen : the margins of the first, second, third 

 and fourth segments with a yellow band waved in front, and 

 mneh broader at the sides, the fifth segment with sometimes a 

 small transverse abbreviated fine in the middle ; the second 

 ventral segment abruptly produced at its base and very finely 

 punctured. 



Male. Length 4-5 lines. — Differs in having the clypeus yellow 

 and covered with silvery pubescence ; the antennae a little 



