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CRABRO BREVIS. 



Lindenius Panzeri, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 201. 8. 

 Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 302. 183. 

 Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 124. 1. 



Female. Length 3-3^- lines. Shining black; head and thorax 

 closely and finely punctured ; the head large, quadrate, wider 

 than the thorax ; the scape of the antennae and the mandibles 

 yellow, the latter ferruginous at their apex ; the clypeus, inner 

 orbit of the eyes, and lower portion of the cheeks covered with 

 silvery pubescence. Thorax : an interrupted line on the collar, 

 the tubercles, and a spot on the scutellum, yellow ; the tips of 

 the femora, the tibiae, and tarsi yellow ; the anterior and inter- 

 mediate tibiae black beneath, the posterior tibiae black at their 

 apex ; the apical joints of the tarsi fusco-ferruginous ; the an- 

 terior tarsi ciliated, and the intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 spinose ; the subcordiform space at the base of the metathorax 

 obliquely striated, the truncation obliquely so. Abdomen 

 slightly aeneous, the lateral portion of the four basal segments 

 and the fifth segment entirely covered with grey pubescence ; 

 the apical segment strongly punctured, its apex ferruginous. 



Male. Length 3 lines. Very like the female, but with the 

 head proportionably larger, and the cheeks with a stout acute 

 spine ; the scape with sometimes a yellow stripe laterally ; the 

 scutellum in rare instances has a yellow dot ; the legs with less 

 yellow than in the female. 



Not an abundant species, but found occasionally in the London 

 district. I have taken it also at Darenth, Birch Wood, Wey- 

 bridge, and the Isle of Wight. 



36. Crabro brevis. 



C. niger ; capite subquadrato, thoracis latitudine ; metathoracis 

 basi laevi ; abdomine ovato, basi subtruncato. 



Crabro brevis, Van d. Lind. Obs. ii. 70. 32 $ <? . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 169. 28. 

 Lindenius brevis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 202. 10. 

 Entomognathus brevis, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 295. 179. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 124. 1. 



Female. Length 2^ lines. Black and shining ; the head and 

 thorax finely punctured ; an oblique smooth depression on each 

 side of the posterior ocelli, which have a longitudinal impression 

 between them ; the scape yellow at the sides, and fulvous at 

 the base; the clypeus convex, and, as well as the inner orbits 

 of the eyes, covered with silvery pubescence, the lower portion 



