GORYTES QUADRIFASCIATLS. 



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longer than the head and thorax : in other respects it resembles 

 the female. 



This species is not rare in the neighbourhood of Highgate ; it 

 has also been taken about Wandsworth and Battersea, but it 

 is certainly very local, and has not been frequently taken out 

 of the London district; it appears about the end of June. 

 Shuckard observed it conveying the larva of Aphrophora spu- 

 maria. I took a few specimens near Lowestoft, Suffolk. 



3. Gorytes quadrifasciatus. 

 G. niger; autennis subtus flavis; prothorace, scutelli margine 



posteriori et abdomine fasciis quatuor flavis ; tibiis tarsisque 



ferrugineis. Fam. 



G. scutello toto nigro. Mas. 



Mellinus quadrifasciatus, Fabr. Syst. Pies. 298. 5 $ . 

 Gorytes qnadrifasciatus, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 90. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. ii. 96. 10 <J . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 215. 3. 

 Hoplisus quadricinctus, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 159. 91. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 86. 1. 

 Gorytes libitinarius, Curtis, Brit. Ent. xi. 524. 

 Euspongus vicinus, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 69. 2. 



Female. Length A\-b lines.— Black ; head shining and finely 

 punctured; the scape yellow in front, the basal joints of the fla- 

 gellum fulvous beneath, the pedicel black ; the elypeus with a 

 central yellow spot, and another at the lateral angles, or some- 

 times forming a transverse stripe ; a small spot or line on the 

 inner margin of the eyes, opposite the insertion of the antenna . 

 and two united spots between the antennae, yellow ; the ante- 

 rior margin of the labrum and the palpi yellow, the latter black 

 at their base. Thorax delicately punctured ; the suture at the 

 base of the scutellum consute ; the metathorax with the trian- 

 gular space at its base longitudinally coarsely striated, beyond 

 which it is coarsely rugose, with the apex obtuse ; the collar, a 

 lunate spot behind the tubercles, and a transverse stripe on the 

 posterior margin of the scutellum, yellow, the latter sometimes 

 obsolete ; wings hyaline, with a dark cloud occupying the mar- 

 ginal, apex of the first submarginal, and the whole of the second 

 submarginal cells ; the stigma and nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; 

 the knees, tibia; and tarsi ferruginous ; the anterior femora with 

 a yellow line in front, the anterior tarsi strongly ciliated, and 

 the intermediate and posterior tibia; spinose. Abdomen deli- 

 cately punctured and shining, with a yellow band on the apical 



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