CRABRO CRIBRARIUS. 



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the abdomen with a small ovate yellow spot on each side, the 

 basal margin of the sixth yellow. 



Had this insect been of a larger size, I should have referred it 

 to the C.fossorius, and possibly it may prove to be a small 

 example of that species. The only specimen I have seen is in my 

 own collection ; it was taken by Mr. Hewitson, near his own resi- 

 dence at Weybridge ; since that time he informs me he has seen 

 other individuals about the same locality. 



Div. 4. — Abdomen subsessile. Ocelli in an isosceles triangle. 



* Antenna of the males subfusiform. Anterior tibia of the 

 males scutellate. 



27. Crabro cribrarius. 



C. niger, flavo-maculatus ; mesothorace longitudinaliter striato. 



Foem. 

 C. antennis subfusiformibus ; tibiis scutelloque obscuris, flavo 



marginatis, punctis hyalinis. Mas. 



Vespa cribraria, Linn. Faun. Suec. 4 16. 1675, & Cab. Mus. Linn.Soc. 

 Sphex cribraria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 945. 23. 



Vill. Ent. iii. 234. 34. 



Sulz. Gesch. Ins. t. 27. f. 6 $ . 



Schrank, Ins. Austr. 384. 779. 



Christ. Hym. 281. t. 27. f. 1 $ . 

 Crabro cribrarius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 299. 14 <? ; Syst. Piez. 311. 16. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 15. 18 $ , 15. 19 ? . 



Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 323. 1. 



Dumeril, Cons. Gen. t. 31. f. 3. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. ii. 40. 1 $ ? . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 126. 1. 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 444. 7. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 353. 231. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 146. 25. 

 Thyreopus cribrarius, St. Farg. Ann. Soc.Ent. Fr. iii. 752. 1; Hym. 



iii. 158. 1. 

 Guepe ichneumon, (DeGeer) Mem. ii. 810. 2. t. 28. f. 5 <? . 



Female. Length 6-71 lines. — Black ; the head slightly shining, 

 the vertex irregularly concave, longitudinally striated in front 

 and punctured behind; the face slightly canaliculated ; the 

 scape with usually a yellow spot at the apex behind, and very 

 pilose; the inner orbit of the eyes and the clypeus covered 

 with silvery pubescence ; the head covered with long fuscous 

 pubescence, that on the cheeks griseous. Thorax pilose, with 



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