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margin of both alidoininal and ventral segments membranous, membrane 

 reddish ; base of the three intermediate segments not punctured. 



363. Formica fusca Linn. — Length of body i)^ line. One speci- 

 men taken in T>al. 65'. 



[263.] % . — Body black, but not intensely, glossy, subcinereous from 

 down. Head triangular, large, much wider than the trunk ; antennae with 

 the scape, the three following joints, and the terminal one, rufous ; the 

 other joints are darker : trunk oblong, compressed, anteriorly elevated and 

 wider ; the prothorax with the scutellum forming a rhomboid : scutellum 

 large, trapezoidal, subrufous ; scale subtriangular, subemarginate ; legs 

 rufous ; thighs embrowned : abdomen subglobose, more hairy than the 

 rest of the body, especially towards the anus. 



FAMILY VESPID^. 



364. Vespa vulgaris Linti. — Length of body 6)^2 lines. A single 

 specimen taken in Lat. 65". 



[264.] $. — Body black, variegated with yellow. Head and trunk 

 thickly clothed with long woolly down of a grayish colour ; face with 

 three yellow spots placed in a transverse line behind the antennae, the 

 two lateral ones subtriangular, the intermediate one subquadrangular, with 

 a reddish cloud on its disk ; the nose below the antennae is yellow, 

 inclming to red round the margin ; it has also three black dots placed in 

 a triangle in the disk, the two lower ones being very minute ; the vertex 

 of the nose is also black ; the mandibles are yellow with black tips , on 

 the outside the orbit of the eyes is reddish-yellow ; the trunk is black 

 underneath : above the posterior upper margin of the collar, the tegulae 

 which cover the base of the wings, and a triangular spot underneath 

 them, are yellow ; on the metathorax and scutellum are six yellow spots 

 placed in a double series, the upper and lower pairs being subtriangular, 

 and the intermediate pair crescent-shaped ; the thighs are black at the 

 base, but their apex, and the rest of the leg, and a small triangular spot 

 on the inner side of the four posterior trochanters, are yellow ; the wings 

 are yellowish red with red nervures ; the abdomen, except at the base, is 

 less hairy than the rest of the body ; it is yellow with all the segments 

 black at the base : though the blackness in the terminal ones is chiefly 

 concealed by the antecedent segments ; in all in the middle it projects 

 into a triangle; the four intermediate ones have also each a round-headed 



