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PLATE CCCXCVIIL 



TENTHREDO FASCIATA. 



BANDED SAW-FLY. 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Mouth with a horny mandible., curved, and toothed within ; javf 

 ftraight and obtufe at the tips : lip cylindrical and three cleft : feelers 

 four unequal and filiform : wings fiat and tumid : fting compofed of 

 tv/o ferrated laminae and fcarcely difclofed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Deep black : antennae black : upper wings with a fufcous band. 



Tenthredo Fasciata : atra, antennis nigris, alis primoribus fafcia 



fufca. Fabr. Sp, Inf. 1. p. 407. N. 8. — Grnel. 



Syji. Nat. 2655. 7- 

 Tenthredo antennis clavatis nigrisj abdomine glabro atro, alis fuperi- 



oribus fafcia fufca. linn. Syji. Nat. 12. 2. 



p. 921, n. 7-—Fn. Succ. 1538. 



This is a rare infe6l in England. Linnaeus defcribes it as a native 

 •f Sweden, Panzer as a German fpecies, and by other writers it is 

 mentioned as a general inhabitant of Europe. 



Fabricius 



