246 INSECTA, 
heaps up the bodies of various dipterous Insects, particularly 
Syrphi and Musce, and lays her eggs; she then closes the 
opening with earth. Throughout Europe ™~*. 
Sometimes the maxillary palpi, which are tolerably elongated, 
consist of six joints, and the labials of four, as in 
MoneEpu.a, Lat. + 
The others have no false proboscis, and the labrum is short and 
rounded. Such is 
Srizus, Lat. Jur. 
5. Other Fossores, having nearly the same appearance as those 
of the preceding divivion, differ from them in the labrum, which is 
either totally or partially hidden; their mandibles present a deep 
notch in their interior side near their base, a character which distin- 
guishes them both from the preceding and fellowing Insects. They 
are our LARRATES. 
Here the superior wings have three closed cubital cells, the second 
of which receives the two recurrent nervures. 
Patarus, Lat.—Gonivs, Jur., 
Where the antenne are very short and gradually enlarge; the eyes 
are closely approximated posteriorly, and enclose the ocelli; the 
second cubital cell is petiolate §. 
Lyrops, [//ig.—Lrris, Fab.— Larra, Jur., 
Where the antenne are filiform, where the third cubital cell is nar- 
row, oblique, almost lunate, and the inner side of the mandibles offers 
a dentiform projection ||. 
Larra, Fab., 
Hardly differs from Lyrops except in the absence of teeth on the 
inner side of the mandibles, the equal distance between the eyes, and 
the evidently longer metathorax and abdomen 4. 
There, the superior wings have but two closed cubital cells, each 
of which receives a recurrent nervure. 
Dinetus, Jur., 
Where the two cubital cells are sessile. The antennz of the males 
are moniliform inferiorly. and then filiform. The mandibles are 
tridentated on the inner side, and the radial cell is furnished with an 
appendix **, 
Miscorpuus, Jur., 
Where the second cubital cell is petiolate and the radial offers no ap- 
Jpatteeeg eee cee et a 
* See Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., 1V, 97. 
+ Lat., Ibid.; most of the genus Bembex, Fab. 
+ Lat., Ibid.; most of the Larre, Fab., such as the L. vespiformis, erytrocephala, 
cineta, crassicornis, bifasciata analis, ruficornis, cingulata, rufifrons, bicolor, fasciata. 
§ See Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, 97; and his Consid, génér. sur l’ordre 
des Crust. des Arach, et des Insect. 
| Lat., Ibid., 71. 
q Lat., Ibid., 70. 
** Lat., Ibid., 72. 
