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PLATE CCCCXIIL 



BANCHUS PICTU9. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Feelers four, elongated, with the joints cylindrical : lip at the 

 bafe cylindrical and horny, tip membranaceous,, rounded, and entire : 

 antenna* fetaceous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Black varied with yellow ; fcutel fomewhat fpinous. 



Banchus Pictus : niger flavo varius fcutello fubfpiaofo, Fair. 

 Supp. Ent. p. 234. n. 7. 



Defcribed by Fabricius as a native of Germany from the cabinet of 

 Smidt. — Not before noticed as a Britilh fpecies. 



The fmalleft figure denotes the true fize of this curious infect. 



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