266 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



(367) 4. Vespa maculata. (Linne.) Spotted Vespa. 



Vespa maculata. Linn. Amain. Acad, vi, 412, 91 ; Syst. Nat. ii, 948, 2. Fab. Ent. Syst. ii, 258, 18; Syst. Piez. 2,37, 17- 



De Geer Ins. iii, 584, 9, t. xxix, /. 13. 

 americana. Christ. Hymenopt. 239. 



Length of the body 10 lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



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Body black, downy, with grayish down, punctured. Mandibles very large, white ; nose white 

 with the whiteness divided longitudinally by a black stripe ; front with three white spots placed 

 transversely ; the intermediate one trapezoidal and bilobed, the lateral ones curved and entering the 

 sinus of the eyes ; externally the eyes are bordered by a white stripe : collar with an L-shaped 

 white line before the wings, below which is a triangle of the same colour ; the black base-covers 

 have a white dot ; the scutellum and post-scutellum have each two lateral crescent-shaped white spots 

 at their anterior margin : the three last segments of the abdomen have each a pair of white spots, 

 which in the penultimate and antepenultimate segments are bilobed, and in the last segment triangular: 

 all the ventral segments, except the first, have a white dot or spot on each side : the antennas are 

 broken off in the specimen, except the scape and two following joints, which are whitish underneath : 

 the anterior legs are black and white, the intermediate have the apex of the thighs, and an external 

 streak on the first joint of the tarsus, white ; the posterior legs are black ; the wings are embrowned. 



De Geer describes the parts here stated to be white, as straw-coloured. 



iii. Anthophila. Lat. 

 a. Bhachyglossa. 4 Kirb. 



Family PROSOPIDJE. Prosopidans. 



CLVII. Genus PROSOPIS. Jurine. 



(368) 1. * Prosopis elliptica. Elliptical Prosopis. 



P. { elliptica ) atra, subpubescens, nasi apice, fronte intus ad oculos, thoracisque tuberculo ante alas, albis ; tibiis posticis albido 



annulatis ; abdomine elliptico, nitido. 

 Elliptical Prosopis, body very black, a little downy ; apex of the nose, front internally at the eyes, and the tubercle of the 



thorax before the wings, all white ; posterior tibiae annulated with white ; abdomen elliptical, glossy. 



Length of the body 3 lines. 



Three specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 



1 I distinguish by this name the genus Melitta of the Monoyraphia Apam Anglim. 



