Ph a) 
PLATE CCCCLXII. 
PHILANTHUS FLAVIPES. 
YELLOW LEGGED PHILANTHUS. 
Vefpa Linn. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth horny, with a compreffed jaw: feelers four, unequal and 
filiform: antenne filiform, the firft joint longer and cylindrical: 
eyes lunar: body glabrous: upper wings folded in each fex: fting 
pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. . 
* Lip compreffed, rounded and longer than the jaw. Philanthus 
Fabr. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Black : thorax fpotted: abdomen yellow, with the edges of the 
feoments and tail black. 
PHILANTHUS FLAVIPES: niger thorace maculato, abdomine flavo : 
. fegmentorum marginibus anoque nigris. abr. 
Ent. Syfi. T. 2. p. 290. n.7.—CRABRO FLA- 
vipges. Fabr. Mant. Inf. I. 295. 8. 
Defcribed by Fabricius as a native of Italy, where it appears to be 
a rare infeét ; it is likewife found in Germany and England, but is not 
common in either country. 
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