VESPID/E. 265 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, downy, especially the head and trunk, with gray hairs. Nose trapezoidal, yellow 

 with a black floriform discoidal spot ; anterior margin with three sinuses taken out ; vertex with a 

 trapezoidal yellow spot just above the base of the antenna? ; antenna; black, luteous underneath ; 

 external orbit of the eyes and mandibles yellow : lateral margin of the collar, a triangular small 

 spot under each wing, two narrow transverse and internally acute spots on the scutellum, and two 

 similar ones below them on the metathorax, all white: tegulas white with a brownish spot in the 

 disk: legs yellow; thighs black at the base: wings testaceous: abdomen heart-shaped, with the 

 bases of the segments where uncovered, and two dots on each except the first, black; the middle 

 part of the black basal bands projects into a triangular tooth ; the underside is nearly similar, but 

 the projections form a longitudinal stripe. 



(366) 3. * Vespa marginata. Bordered Vespa. 



V. f marginata) nigra, pubescens, ore, frontis maculis, antennis scapo subtus, thoracis tinea utrinque ante alas, scutelli punctis 

 duobus obscuris, abdominisque segmentis margine, albidis : pedibus nifescentibus basi nigris. 



Bordered wasp, black, downy ; with the mouth, spots of the front, scape of the antennae below, line of the thorax before 

 the wings, two obscure dots of the scutellum, and margin of the abdominal segments, all white ; legs rufescent, 

 black at the base. 



PLATE VI, FIG. 2. 



Length of the body 7i lines. 



Taken in the Route from New York, and again in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



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Body black, punctured, downy from a mixture of black and gray hairs. Mandibles white with a 

 black margin; palpi reddish ; nose white with a flask-shaped longitudinal black spot in the disk ; just 

 above the antennae is a bilobed white spot, between which and the eye is a white line, and another 

 external one above it ; antennae short, not much exceeding the head, black with the scape white un- 

 derneath ; in one of the specimens there is a reddish spot underneath on the four or five last joints, 

 which is not discernible in the others : the external margin of the collar, before each wing, and a small 

 triangular spot on each side of the scutellum, are white : wings embrowned with darker nervures, 

 but the costal nervure, and tegulas are ferruginous ; legs testaceous, black at the base : abdomen 

 with the apex of the dorsal and ventral segments white ; anal segment black with a pair of white 

 spots ; the white margin of the dorsal segments receives an intermediate triangular point, and on 

 each side of it a rounded lobe from the black base. 



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