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PLATE CCCXXIX. 



SPHEX APPENDIGASTER. 



Small-bodied Ichneumon Wasp. 



Hymenoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth armed with jaws, no tongue. Antennse confift of ten 

 articulations. Wings extended, without folds, and laid horizontally 

 upon the back. Sting fharp and pointed, and concealed within the 

 abdomen, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Black. Abdomen fmall, joined to the thorax by a footftalk. 

 Pofterior legs very long. 



Sphex Appendigaster : atra abdomine petiolata breviflimo, pe- 

 dibus pofticis longiffimis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 

 945. 12.'— Gme/. Linn. SyJi. Nat. p. 2723. 245. 

 fp. 12. 



EvANiA Appendigaster : atra abdomine pctiolato breviflimo 

 dprfo thoracis impofito, pedibus pollicis lon- 

 giflimis. Fab. Ent. SyJi. T. 2. 141. i. 

 Degeer. Inf. 3. 394. tab. 30 fig. 14. 

 Reaum, Inf. 6. tab. 31. jig. 13. 



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