396 HYMENOPTERA. 



Ceratocolus reticulatus, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 747. 6 $ ? 

 Hym. iii. 152, 6. 



Hub. France; Germany; Austria; Sweden. 



20. Crabro scutatus. B.M. 



Crabro scutatus, Fabr. Mant. i. 296. 15 <? ; Ent. Syst. ii. 298. 16. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 15. 22. 



Oliv. Encycl. Me'th. vi. 515. ]/, 



Van d. Lind, Obs. ii. 44. 5. 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 129. 3c??. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 329. 216. 



Wes7n. Hym. Foss. Bely. 135. 13. 

 Vespa scutata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 5. 2763. 116 <? . 

 Sphex palmaria, Sckreb. Naturf. xx. 100. 6. t. 2. f. 9 <? . 

 Crossocerus scutatus, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii. 764. 1 S 

 (1834) ; Hym. iii. 168. 1. 



Hab. Britain; France; Germany; Belgium. 



21. Crabro latipes. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines. — Black : the head a little wider than the 

 thorax, much narrowed behind the eyes; the stemmata placed in 

 a curve backwards on the vertex ; the cly])eus yellow, with a black 

 carina in the middle ; the mandibles with a yellow stripe outside ; 

 the scape white, with a black line behind, broad and narrowed at 

 the base; the flagellum subfusiform, concave beneath, and serrated 

 on the exterior. Thorax : the metathorax rugose ; the wings 

 fulvo-hyaline and iridescent, the nervures rufo-testaceous ; the 

 anterior legs have the trochanters a little dilated and flattened 

 beneath, and of a very pale yellow colour; the femora pale yel- 

 low, broadly dilated, widest at their apex, at the base furnished 

 with two incurved acute teeth ; the tibiae dilated into large ob- 

 long concavo-convex plates, the lower posterior angle furnished 

 with an acute spme, the anterior margin pale yellow, behind 

 which it is entirely of a dusky brown, with two or three longitu- 

 dinal paler lines, at the base having a few narrow whitish streaks ; 

 the intermediate femora with a yellow stripe behind ; the tibiae 

 yellow, with a black stain at the base beneath ; the tarsi yellow; 

 the posterior legs have the tibiai and basal joint of the tarsi yel- 

 low outside. Abdomen : a pale yellow subinterrupted fascia on 

 the first and three following segments, that on the fifth conti- 

 nuous ; the sixth segment Avith an oblong spot on each side. 



Hab. Nova Scotia. (Coll. Lieut. Redman.) 



