GORYTES BICINCTUS. 1QJ" 



yellow ; a piceous stain at the apex of the tibiae behind ; the 

 posterior tarsi dusky, with the claw-joint darkest ; the anterior 

 tarsi ciliated, the tibiae slightly spinose. Abdomen shining, and 

 with a broad yellow band on the first four segments, sometimes 

 a narrower one on the fifth segment; and two longitudinal spots 

 on the apical one the latter is of rare occurrence ; the first 

 band slightly emarginate in front. 



Male. Rather smaller, and differing in having the antennae 

 black, or with sometimes a minute yellow spot on the scape in 

 front ; the clypeus with a silvery pubescence, and the scutellum 

 black ; the legs with the anterior and intermediate femora at 

 their apex in front, the knees and tibiae in front, as well as the 

 tarsi, yellow, with their claw -joint piceous; the knees of the 

 posterior legs ferruginous, their tibiae yellow beneath, and their 

 tarsi black ; the abdomen with five yellow bands, and the sixth 

 and seventh segments covered with fuscous pubescence. 



This is a rare species ; no locality except that mentioned by 

 Shuckard is known, namely the New Forest, Hants. Conti- 

 nental specimens are frequently more highly coloured than British 

 ones, having usually six bands on the abdomen, and the legs 

 yellower. 



5. Gorytes bicinctus. 



G. ater ; antennis subtus ferrugineis, articulo primo flavo ; pro- 

 thorace, abdomine fasciis duabus, prirno segmento (coarctato) 

 puncto utrinque, flavis. 



Crabro bicinctus, Rossi, Faun. Etrus. Append. 123. 110. 

 Lestiphorus bicinctus, St. Farg. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 70. 1 ; 

 Hym. Hi. 73. 1. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 156. 90. 



Wesm. Hym. Fess. Belg. 94. 1. 

 Gorytes bicinctus, Fan d. Lind. Obs, ii. 937. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. v. t. 524 $ . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 219. 5. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black ; head opake, and very deli- 

 cately punctured; the scape yellow beneath; the flagellum 

 fuscous beneath, excepting two or three of the apical joints ; 

 the lower portion of the face, the clypeus, and labrum, yellow ; 

 the mandibles fuscous in the middle. Thorax delicately punc- 

 tured; the mesothorax having two slightly impressed longi- 

 tudinal lines at its base, extending to the disk ; the triangular 

 space at the base of the metathorax longitudinally striated, with 

 a carina in the centre ; the collar, tubercles, and two spots oil 



