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ODYNERUS ANTILOPE. 



yellow border ; the legs reddish yellow or fulvous ; the coxae, 

 trochanters, and greater portion of the femora black; wings 

 fulvo-hyaline, the nervures brown, the anterior margin of the 

 superior pair with a fusco-ferruginous stain, darkest in the mar- 

 ginal cell; the nervures pale ferruginous at the base of the 

 wings, the tegulae with their outer margin rufo-testaceous, some- 

 times yellow in front. Abdomen shining and finely punctured ; 

 the first five segments regularly bordered with yellow; the 

 insect thinly covered with pale ferruginous pubescence. 



Var. a. A pale yellow spot on the apical segment. 



The Male is smaller than the female, and differs from it in having 

 the mandibles, clypeus, and scape in front, yellow ; the flagel- 

 lum fulvous beneath. 



This species is taken in the London district, but is not very 

 abundant ; it has been taken at Bristol, in the Isle of Portland, 

 Isle of Wight, and at Weybridge showing that it is widely 

 distributed. 



12, Odynerus Antilope. 



O. niger; clypeo punctis duobus, prothoracis margine antico, 

 scutello maculis duabus, abdominisque segmentis fasciis quin- 

 que flavis. 



Vespa Antilope, Panz. Faun. Germ. 53. 9. 

 Vespa parietum, Panz. Faun. Germ. 49. 24. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 268. 53 ; Syst. Piez. 263. 52. 

 Odynerus biglumis, Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 89, & fasc. iii. 186. 4. 

 Odynerus Antilope, Wesm. Mon. Odyn. Belg. 32. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 649. 34. 



Sauss. Mon. Guepes Sol. 132. 13. 

 Odynerus murarius, Herr. Schaff. Faun. Germ. 173. 26. 1. 12. 1 $ . 



Female. Length 7-74 lines. Shining black; the head and 

 thorax closely punctured ; an interrupted semicircular stripe at 

 the base of the clypeus, a spot on the mandibles, the scape in 

 front, a spot between the antennae, and a minute one behind 

 the eyes, yellow ; the flagellum fulvous beneath. The anterior 

 margin of the prothorax, a spot on the tegulae behind, two 

 minute ones on the scutellum, and the tibiae and tarsi, yellow ; 

 the tibiae with a dark stain behind, and the tarsi more or less 

 fuscous ; the tips of the femora yellow ; wings fulvo-hyaline, 

 with a darker stain along the anterior margin of the superior 

 pair. Abdomen delicately punctured, the basal segment most 

 strongly so ; the first and three following segments with yellow 



