138 CRABRO PUBESCENS. 



shining ; an impressed line in front of the anterior stemma, ex- 

 tending to the face ; the inner orbit of the eyes and the clypeus 

 densely covered with silvery pubescence, the latter with a large 

 yellow spot in the centre ; the scape yellow, with a black stripe 

 behind ; the apex of the mandibles ferruginous ; the palpi pale 

 testaceous. Thorax punctured and shining ; the mesothorax 

 with a central longitudinal line extending from the base to the 

 apex ; the metathorax with a smooth enclosed subcordiform 

 space at its base, which has in the centre a longitudinal consute 

 incisure; the posterior portion very slightly striated trans- 

 versely ; the wings slightly coloured, the nervures and tegulae 

 rufo-piceous; the legs yellow, with the femora, the anterior 

 and intermediate tibiae beneath, and the posterior ones with 

 their apical half, black ; the terminal joint of the anterior and 

 intermediate tarsi piceous ; the posterior tarsi piceous, with the 

 basal joint yellow ; the anterior tarsi slightly ciliated, the pos- 

 terior tibiae spinose. Abdomen shining and pubescent, with 

 the margins of the segments and the apex piceous ; the apical 

 segment pinched at the sides, with the margins raised. 



The Male has the antennae nigro-fuscous, the scape yellow in 

 front; the clypeus carinate in the centre, with a yellow spot 

 on each side at the base, the apical margin crenulated 

 or subdenticulate, the denticulations being six in number; 

 the mandibles black at the base, then fulvous, with the apex 

 rufo-piceous ; the legs, with the coxae, trochanters and femora 

 rufo-piceous at their apex ; the tibiae yellow, with their apex 

 black : in other respects resembling the female. 



This insect was captured by the late Mr. James Francis Ste- 

 phens, at Ripley in Surrey : no other locality is known. 



17. Crabro pubescens. 



C. niger, elongatus ; capite et thorace pilis longis vestitis ; me- 

 tathorace laevi. 



Crabro pubescens, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 165. 25. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 311. 191. 

 Crabro diversipes, Herr. SchajjF. Faun. Germ. 181. 49<2 ? 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 134. 12. 



Male. Length 3 lines. Black ; the head shining, very delicately 

 punctured, the surface irregular; an impressed longitudinal 

 line in front of the anterior stemma extending to the face ; 

 the head thinly covered with long pubescence ; the face 

 canaliculated, smooth and shining; the antennae fimbriated 

 beneath, with the sides of the scape yellow ; the inner orbit of 



