costal neryure and tegulac are ferruginous ; legs testaceous, black at the 

 base ; abdomen with the apex of the dorsal and ventral segments white ; 

 anal segment black with a pair of white spots ; the white margin of the 

 dorsal segments receives an intermediate triangular point, and on each 

 side of it a rounded lobe from the black base. 



[266.] 367, Vesi'A maculata Linn. — Length of body 10 lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65''. 



[As this insect, commonly known as tlie " White-faced Hornet," is so 

 abundant in ( 'anada, and has been so often described, it is unnecessary to 

 quote Kirby's description.] 



1 AMIL\ PROSOPID.1- . 



36S. Prosopis elijptk^a Kirhy. — Length of body 3 lines. Three 

 specimens taken in Lat 65". 



[267. j Body very black, slightly downy, minutely punctured. Apex 

 of the nose white, whiteness lohed ; inner orbit of the eyes below the 

 antennae white : vertex channelled below the eyelets ; antennae scarcely 

 longer than the head ; the projecting lobes of the collar terminate in a 

 white tubercle : base-covers piceouF ; wings hyaline with dark nervures ; 

 metathorax longitudinally wrinkled ; posterior tibiae annulated at the base 

 with white : abdomen more glossy than the rest of the body, almost 

 naked, and scare ely punctured ; it is narrower and more elliptical than in 

 any other known species of the genus. 



(This species and another, P. affinis Smith, are found in Canada,] 



FAMILY ANDRENIDvt.. 



369. Hai.rtus RUBicuNDUs Stephens .-\ /^.wgi)^ of body 5 lines. 

 Four specimens taken, locality not stated. 



$. —Body black, downy. Head suborbicular, down grayish; space 

 between the eyes broad ; down on the thorax thicker, ferruginous ; base* 

 covers rufo-piceous ; win|^ subhyaline ; nervures and stigma testaceous ; 

 post-costal nervure black ; legs thickly set with yellow hairs which shine 

 like gold ; tarsi testaceous ; abdomen elliptical, downy with decumbent 

 hairs ; margin of the segments fringed with white hairs, the two first sub- 

 interruptedly ; the ventral segments are similarly fringed, but the hairs 

 are shorter. 



