FORMICIDiE VESPID/E. 



DESCRIPTION. 



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Body black, but not intensely, glossy, subcinereous from down. Head triangular, large, much 

 wider than the trunk ; antennas with the scape, the three following joints, and the terminal one, 

 rufous, the other joints are darker : trunk oblong, compressed, anteriorly elevated and wider ; the 

 prothorax with the scutellum forming a rhomboid ; scutellum large, trapezoidal, subrufous ; scale sub- 

 triangular, subemarginate ; legs rufous ; thighs embrowned ; abdomen subglobose, more hairy than 

 the rest of the body, especially towards the anus. 



ii. Lestica. 



a. DlPLOPTERYGA. 5 



Family VESPID^E. Vespidans. 



CLVI. Genus VESPA. Linn. 



(364) 1. Vespa vulgaris. Common Vespa. 



Vespa vulgaris. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii, 914, 4; Fn. Suec. 1671. Fab. Ent. Syst. ii, 250, 10; Syst. Piez. 255, 9. Rai. 



Hist. Ins. 250. Scop. Cam. 825. Geoff. Ins. ii, 360, 2. Mull. Linn. Nat. v, 880. Frisch. Ins. 9, t. xii, /. 2. Schaeff. 



Elem. t. cxxx, Icon. t. xxxv, /. 4. De Geer Ins. ii, 766, 2, t. xxvi, /. 5 — 7. H — s. Expos. 128, t. xxxvii, /. 5. Amo. 



Ins. venim 251, t. ii, /. 13. Schrank. Enum. 787. Vill. Ent. iii, 263, 2. Christ. Hymenopt. 236, t. xxii, /. 2. Don. 



Brit. Ins. vii, t. ccxxvi. Berk. Syn. i, 158. Ced. Fn. Ingr. 521. Walck. Fn. Paris, ii, 91, 4. Stew. Elem. ii, 238. 



Bingl. An. Bi. iii, 341. Panz. Fn. Germ, xlix, t. 19. Shaw. Gen. Zool. vi, 285, t. xcv. Jur. Hymenopt. 168- Lat. 



N. D. D'H. N. xiv, 8 ; Crust. Araehn. et Ins. ii, 340. Lam. An. sans Vertebr. iv, 88, 2. Sam. Compend. 280, 2. 



Kirb. and Sp. Introd. to Ent. ii, 106. Steph. Cat. i, 374, 5029, 2. Ramd. Verdaung Ins. 132, 1, t xii. 

 Vespa. Mouff. 7ns. 45. 



major. Schwenck. Theriotr. 561. 



flava major. Merr. Pinax. 196. 



Aristot. Hist. Anim. 1, ix, c, 41. Plin. Hist. Nat. 1, xi, c. 21. Swamm. Bibl. Nat. t. xxvi, /. 8. Reaum. Ins. vi, t. xiv, 

 /1-7. 



Length of the body 6| lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



3 Latreille names this section Diploptera, but the termination ptera being consecrated to the Orders of insects. I have 

 changed the term for another of the same meaning. 



