ASTATA BOOPS. 95 



vures ; the third oblique ; the wings broad and ample ; the legs 

 spinose. Abdomen subsessile, conical, the upper surface flat- 

 tened in the male. 



1. Astata boops. 

 A. atra ; abdominis basi rufo, metathorace reticulato. 



Sphex boops, Schrank, Ins. Austr. 384. 777. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. Mant. 128. 284. 

 Tiphia abdominalis, Panz. Faun. Germ. 53. 5. 

 Larra pompiliformis, Don. Brit. Ins. xii. 73. 420. 

 Astata abdominalis, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 297. 1. 

 Astata boops, Van d. Lind. Obs. ii. 27. 1 $ . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 97. 1. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 140. 72. 



Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. t. 71. 1. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 256. 1. 1. 21. f. 2. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger. iii. 260. t. 12. f. 7. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 73. 1. 

 Astata victor, Curtis, Brit. Ent. vi. t. 261 $ . 

 Astata Vanderlindenii, Rob. Mag. Zool. Guer. t. 76. 



Female. Length 5-6 lines. Black ; the head shining, the face 

 closely punctured, the vertex with only a few scattered delicate 

 punctures ; a short smooth impressed line in front of the an- 

 terior stemma ; the face with a little griseous pubescence ; the 

 mandibles ferruginous a little before the apex. Thorax : the 

 mesothorax and scutellum smooth and shining, the former 

 closely punctured in front ; the metathorax reticulated ; wings 

 subhyaline, with a broad dark band at the apex of the sub- 

 marginal cells, the apex of the wings paler ; the legs robust, 

 slightly pubescent, very spinose; the anterior tarsi strongly 

 ciliated. Abdomen subsessile, somewhat conical ; the margins 

 depressed, the first, second, and base of the third segment 

 ferruginous. 



Var. )3. Only the extreme apical margin of the third segment 

 black. 



Male. Length 4-6 lines. Differs in having the face and cheeks 

 covered with long silvery-white pubescence, most dense on the 

 former ; the eyes red ; the mesothorax entirely punctured, the 

 scutellum only smooth and shining; the anterior tarsi not 

 ciliated; the legs much less spinose; wings subhyaline, clear 

 hyaline beyond the sub marginal cells ; the sides of the thorax, 

 the apex, and the base of the abdomen with long thin hoary 

 pubescence. 



Var. j3. The wings entirely hyaline. 



