104 GORYTES FARGEII. 



piceous, increasing in colour from their base ; the band on 

 the margin of the second segment rarely interrupted in the 

 middle. 



This is a very abundant insect during the months of May and 

 June ; it frequents hedge-rows, preferring those at wood-sides, 

 where it settles on leaves and flowers, particularly on the Wood- 

 spurge. Shuckard captured it with the larva of Aphrophora. I 

 have more than once seen it conveying a small Lepidopterous 

 larva. It is found in all parts of the kingdom. 



2. Gorytes Fargeii. 



G. niger ; prothorace, linea subscutello, segmentis quatuor ab- 

 dominis fascia, tibiis tarsisque flavis. 



Mellinus quadrifasciatus, Panz. Faun. Germ. 98. 17<?. 



Arpactus quadrifasciatus, Panz. Krit. Revis. ii. 165. 



Gorytes campestris, St. Faro. Ann.Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 58. 2 (nee Linn.). 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 168. 99. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 58. 2. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 85. 2. 

 Gorytes Fargeii, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 214. 2. 



Female. Length 4-5 lines. Black ; the head and thorax shining 

 and closely punctured ; the clypeus with a broad yellow band 

 at its base ; the labrum fringed with fulvous setae ; tips of the 

 mandibles dark ferruginous. Thorax : the mesothorax with a 

 scratch on each side parallel with the epaulet of the tegulae ; the 

 incisure at the base of the scutellum consute ; the subdefined 

 triangular space at the base of the metathorax longitudinally 

 striated and rugose beyond, with a deep central longitudinal 

 impression, the apex truncated ; the collar, tubercles, a lunule 

 beneath the wings, and the post-scutellum, yellow ; the wings 

 slightly coloured and iridescent, a slight cloud occupying 

 the marginal cell, and passing along the apical edge of the 

 wings ; the stigma and nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; the tibia3 

 and tarsi yellow, the former with a dark stain beneath; the 

 legs simple. Abdomen : the margins of the first, second, third 

 and fourth segments with a yellow band waved in front, and 

 ranch broader at the sides, the fifth segment with sometimes a 

 small transverse abbreviated line in the middle; the second 

 ventral segment abruptly produced at its base and very finely 

 punctured. 



Male. Length 4-5 lines. Differs in having the clypeus yellow 

 and covered with silvery pubescence; the antennae a little 



