ENTOMOLOGICAL CABIN IT, 



FCENUS JACULATOR. Linn. 



Black, slightly glossy : head orbicular, attached bj 

 an elongated neck, thickly and minutely punctured 

 eyes oval and placed on the sides of the head : an- 

 tenna inserted below the middle of the face, black 

 and filiform : ocelli three in the form of a triangle 

 thorax narrow and compressed and much elevated in 

 the centre : abdomen compressed, very long and 

 narrow, clavate, slightly arched, and very slender at 

 the base, with the second, third and fourth joints 

 reddish yellow : ovipositor the length of the whole 

 insect: wings short, marginal cells large, and two 

 large submarginal cells — the lower wings with a few 

 rinc nervines : legs, the four anterior short, the 

 binder long ; the tibce clavate, with a minute spine : 

 tarsi all five jointed. 



Expansion of the wings 6§ line.-- ; length of the 

 body 7 lines. 



inhabits sandy places in June. 



Latreille observes, the insects of this genus live 

 upon flowers, and often elevate their abdomens in a 

 state of repose : during the night, or when bad 

 weather prevents them from flying, they fix them- 

 selves by their mandibles to the stalks of different 

 plants, and are then almost in a perpendicular po- 

 sition. They are often met with in dry and sandy- 

 districts, Hying with solitary bees and spheges, in. 

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