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PLATE CCXXVL 



VESPA VULGARIS. 



Common Wasp, '^ 



Hymenoptera. 



Wings 4, membranous in general. Tail of the female armed 

 with a fling. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth armed with jaws. The fting iTiarp-pointed and concealed 

 within the abdomen.. Body fmooth, without hair. The upper 

 wings folded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS, 



A yellow line on each fide of the thorax : four yellow fpots on the 

 fcutelliim, a black belt, and two black fpots on each fegment of th» 

 abdomen. 



Vespa Vulgaris : thorace utrinque lineola interrupta, Scutello qua 

 quadrimaculato, abdominis incifuris pundis nigris 

 dillindis. FaL Syji. Ent. 364, 9. — Spec. Inf. i. 

 460. g.^Lin. Sy/. Nat. 2. 949. 4. — Fn. Sv. 1671. 



f^efpa nigra luteaque, antennis totis nigris. Degeer Inf. 2. 2. Iii. 

 tab. 26. fig. 7. 



I^efpa th6race lineolis trium parium difFerentium flauves centium. 

 Geoff, Inf. 2. 369, 2, 



Schaff. 



