hymenoptera. 415 



117. Crabro basalis. B.M. 



Female. Length 4^ Hues. — Black : the head closel}' punc- 

 tured ; the clypeus covered with silvery pubescence ; the scape 

 yellow, three or four of the basal joints of the flagelhim of a 

 reddish-yellow ; the mandibles obscurely ferruginous. Thorax 

 longitudinally coarsely rugose, the metathorax behind, and at 

 the sides, transversely striate ; a spot on each side of the collar 

 and the tubercles yellow ; the wings slightly coloured, the ner- 

 vures and tegulaj ferruginous ; the legs ferruginous, the anterior 

 tibiae yellowish. Abdomen closely punctured ; the basal segment 

 ferruginous, the second, third, fourth and fifth segments with 

 an ovate pale yellow macula on each side; beneath, the first 

 and second segments and the extreme apex ferruginous. 



Hub. Polish Ukraine. 



118. Crabro cinxius. 



Crabro cinxius, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 318. 199. 

 Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 129. 4. 



Hab. Norway. ' 



119. Crabro Lapponicus. 



Crabro lapponicus, Zett. Ins. Lapp. 443. 3 $ . 

 Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 363. 235. 



Hab. Lapland ; Norway. 



120. Crabro melanarius. 



Crabro podagricus, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 339. 222 (nee Shuck.). 

 Crabro melanarius, Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 133. 



Hab. Sweden. 



121. Crabro sulphureipes. B.M. 



Male. Length 4 lines.— Black : the head as large as the 

 thorax, finely punctured, the sides swollen ; the clypeus covered 

 with silvery pubescence ; the scape and mandibles yellow, their 

 tips rufo-piceous. Thorax closely punctured, the metathorax 

 rugose, with a longitudinal channel extending from the base to 

 the apex ; the collar, tubercles, scutellum, post-scutellum, and 

 legs of a sulphur-yellow; the coxae, trochanters, and extreme 

 base of the femora, black ; the wings fulvo-hyaline ; the collar 

 produced on each side into a shar]) subdentate angle. Abdomen 

 with three broad yellow bauds, the fii'st at the base of the second 

 segment and subinterrupted; the second at the base of the fourth, 



