PLATE CCCXV. 59 



As we have all the fpecies defcribed by thofe authors before us, 

 we fhall endeavour lo reftore them to order, and that by retaining 

 the former defcriptions of Fabricius, changing the names, and di- 

 viding the fynonyms, for both are fufficiently charadleriftic ; that 

 with marginal fpots is figured by Roefel, SchasfFer and Scopoli, and 

 the immaculated or clear-winged kind by GeofFroy and Sulzer. The 

 lirft we deem the true R. Ophiopfis, and the latter as a diftindl infe6l, 

 which may be called the Raphidia Immaculata with propriety. 



Both fpecies of this Angular creature are extremely rare. GeofFroy, 

 fpeaking of the unfpotted kind, fays he never found it but twice, 

 and then in woods *. The larva is unknown ; in the pupa ftate it 

 is furnifhed with legs, and runs fafl. 



* GeofFroy Hiftoire des Infedles, 



PLATE 



