166 OXYBELUS NIGRICORNIS. 



Oxybclus quatuordecira-notatus, Jurine, llym. 217. t. 11. f. 5. 



Latr. Gen. Cr. et Ins. iv. 79. 



Oliv. Encycl. Moth. viii. 596. 13. 



Tan d. Lind. Obs. ii. 37. 11. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 220. 12. 

 Oyxbelus quatuordecim-guttatus, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 112. 9. 



Dahlb. Uym. Europ. i. 270. 168. 



Female. Length 3J lines. — Black ; head and thorax punctured 

 and pubescent ; antenna; piceous, with the apex of the scape 

 and the apical half of the flagellum fulvous ; mandibles yel- 

 low at their base, rufous in the middle, and black at their 

 apex. Thorax : a transverse line on each side of the collar, 

 the tubercles, tegulse, a spot on each side of the scutellum, two 

 curved lines running from the lateral edges of the scutellum to 

 the base of the wings, and two incurved squama; at the posterior 

 margin of the scutellum, yellow ; the spine at the base of the 

 metathorax short, obtuse, and emarginate at its apex ; wings 

 slightly coloured, with their nervures brown ; legs black, with 

 the inside of the anterior and intermediate femora, and the ex- 

 terior of all the tibire, yellow ; the tarsi ferruginous, the basal 

 joints of the intermediate and posterior pairs fusco-ferruginous. 

 Abdomen delicately punctured, with a transverse yellow spot 

 on each side of the first five segments ; the margins of the third, 

 fourth, and fifth segments rnfo-piceous, and the apical segment 

 ferruginous. 



Hab. Not known. Type in the British Museum. 



6. Oxybelus nigricornis. 



0. niger ; thorace abdomineque flavo maculatis ; pedibus flavis ; 

 mucrone metathoracis acuto. 



Oxybelus nigricornis, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 112. 7. 

 Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i. 267. 164. 



Female. Length 3 } lines. — Head and thorax black, punctured, 

 and pubescent ; the face covered with silvery pubescence. 

 Thorax : a spot on each side of the collar, the tubercles, and 

 the squama; at the posterior margin of the scutellum, yellow ; 

 the muero at the base of the metathorax canaliculated above, 

 and acute at the apex; the wings slightly coloured, their 

 nervures rufo-testaceous ; the legs yellow, with the inside of 

 the anterior femora and the upper part of the intermediate 

 and posterior tibia? black ; the tarsi ferruginous, the anterior 

 pair ciliated, and the intermediate and posterior tibia; spinose. 



