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PLATE CCCCLY. 
VESPA SEXCINCTA.: 
SIX BELLED WASP. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. ' 
Mouth horny, with a compreffed jaw: feelers four, unequal and 
filiform: autenne filifiorm, the firft jomt longeft and cylindrical; 
eyes lunar: body glabrous: fting pungent, and concealed within the 
abdomen : upper wings folded in both fexes. — 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax fpotted: abdomen with fix yellow bands, the firft inter- 
‘gupted. 
VESPA SEXCINCTA: thorace maculato: abdomine fafciis fex flavis 
primo interruptis. Fabr. fo. inf. I. p. 470. n. 7. 
Mant. Inf. I. p. 295. n. 9. 
Defcribed by Fabricius as a native of Germany: it is a very rare 
Bnitith fpecies, and has not been figured by any author. 
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