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PLATE CCCCXVI. 



VESPA CRIBRARIA. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth horny, with a compreffed jaw : feelers four, unequal and 

 filiform: antennae filifiorm, the firft joint longeft and cylindrical: 

 eyes lunar : body glabrous : fting pungent, and concealed within the 

 abdomen: upper wings folded in both fexes. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : abdomen banded with yellow, the middle ones interrupted : 

 anterior fhanks with concave fhields. 



Vespa Cribraria : Linn. Sgjl. Nat. 12. 2. p. 945. n. 23. — Fn. 



Suec. 2. n. 1675. 

 Crabro Cribraria: nigra, abdomine fafciis: intermediis inte?- 



ruptis, tibiis anticis clypeis concavis. Fabr. Sp. 



Inf. I. p. 470. n. S.—Mant. Inf. I. p. 298. 



n. 13. 

 Apis tibiis anticis lamella cribriformi. XJddm. Diff. 94. 



Ray Inf. p. Q55. n. 15. 



Rolander Ad Stockh. 1751. p. 56. t. 3. /. 1. 

 Crabro Cribrarius : Panzer Fn. Inf. Germ. 



Found 



