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PLATE CCXXV. 



SIREX SPECTRUM, 



Black-bodied Tailed Wasp. 



Hymenoptera. 



"Wings four, membraneous in general. Tail o^the females 

 armed with a fling. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth armed with ftrong jaws. Palpi two, truncated. Antennas 

 filiform, containing upwards of twenty-four articulations. Sting 

 projedled, ftrong, and ferrated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Abdomen black. Thorax rather hairy, a yellow ftripe on each 

 fide, next the bafe of the wing. 



SiREX Spectrum : abdomine atro, thorace villofo, litura ante alas 

 lutea. Fab. Syji. Ent. 3. 26. — Spec. Inf. i. p. 419, 

 109. 6. 



Sirex fpedlrum. Lin. SyJi. Nat. 2. 929. 3. — Fn. Sv. 1574. — Degeer, 

 Inf. I. tab, 36. fig. 6. — S chaff. Icon. tab. 4. fig. 9. 10, 



This fpecies bears much refemblance to fome Infe£ls of the Ich- 

 umon genus. We have found it among the leaves of the Horfe- 



tieumon genus 

 ladifh in June 



