106 GORYTES LATICINCTUS, 



margin of the first four or five segments, the first and second 

 broadest and much dilated at the sides ; the second, third and 

 fourth usually continued beneath, the fifth frequently obsolete ; 

 the base of the second ventral segment only slightly convex. 



The Male differs in having the flagellum black beneath, with a 

 minute yellow spot on the pedicel ; the tibiae are yellow in front, 

 and the anterior and intermediate tarsi of a testaceous yellow, 

 the tips of the apical joint piceous ; the posterior pair with the 

 basal joint ferruginous, the rest piceous. 



An abundant insect, widely distributed ; like the first species, 

 it is usually found most abundant on Umbelliferae at the borders 

 of woods. 



4. Gorytes laticinctus. 



G. niger ; antennis subtus flavis ; prothorace, scutelli margine 



posteriori, abdomineque fasciis quatuor, flavis. Fatm. 

 G. antennis et scutello nigris. Mas. 



Gorytes quadrifasciatus, Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 93. 2. 

 Gorytes arenarius, Van d. Lind. Obs. ii. 97. & 2nd( . 

 Euspongus laticinctus, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 66. 1 ; Hym. 



iii. 66. 1. 1. 25. f. 6. 



Gorytes laticinctus, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 217. 4. 

 Hoplisus laticinctus, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 161. 92. 

 Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 86. 2. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. Black ; head shining and delicately 

 punctured ; the scape yellow in front ; the flagellum beneath, 

 excepting the last two joints, fulvous yellow, with a black line 

 above ; the lower portion of the inner orbits of the eyes, the 

 clypeus, labrum, and palpi, yellow ; apex of the mandibles 

 piceous. Thorax shining and delicately punctured, with four 

 parallel longitudinal impressed lines extending from the base of 

 the mesothorax to its disk ; the metathorax with a subdefined 

 angular space at the base, which is longitudinally rugose-striate, 

 beyond coarsely rugose and obtusely truncated; the epaulet 

 over the tegulse, and the incisure at the base of the scutellum 

 consute ; the collar, a spot beneath the wings, the tegulae in 

 front, and a transverse line on the scutellum, yellow ; the wings 

 slightly coloured, the stigma and nervures rufo-testaceous ; a 

 dark cloud occupies the marginal, and upper portion of the 

 second and third submarginal cells ; the legs yellow, the ante- 

 rior and intermediate femora with a black stripe above, the 

 posterior coxae and femora black, the latter with their apex 



