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PLATE CCCXCVIIL 



TENTHREDO FASCIATA. 



BANDED SAW-FLY. 

 HYMEMOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a horny mandible, curved, and toothed within ; jaw 

 ftraight and obtufe at the tips : lip cylindrical and three cleft : feeler* 

 four unequal and filiform : wings fiat and tumid : fting compofed of 

 two ferrated laminae and fcarcely difclofed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



' AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Deep black : antennae black : upper wings with a fufcous band. 



Tenthredo Fasciata : atra, antenni3 nigris, alis primoribus fafcia 



fufca. Fabr. Sp, Inf. 1. p. 407. N. Q.—Gmel 



Syjl. Nat. %655. 7 '. 

 Tenthredo antennis clavatis nigris, abdomine glabro atro, alis fuperi- 



oribus fafcia fufca. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 12. 2. 



p. 921, n. 7—Fn. Suec. 1538. 



This is a rare infect in England. Linnaeus defcribes it as a native 

 #f Sweden, Panzer as a German fpecies, and by other writers it if 

 -mentioned as a general inhabitant of Europe. 



Fabriciu* 



