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PLATE CCCCLXXXIII. 



SIREX DROMEDARIUS, 



PROMEDARY SAW-FLY. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a thick horny truncated fliort denticulated mandible i 

 feelers four, the pofterior ones longer and thicker upwards : antennas 

 filiform, of more than twenty-four equal articulations : fting exferted, 

 ferrated, ftiff: abdomen feflile, terminating in a point : wings lanceo- 

 late, incumbent, the lower ones Ihorter. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Abdomen black, rufous in the middle, with a white dot on the fide 

 of each fegment : fhanks white at the bafe. 



SlREX DROMEDARIUS : abdomine atro : medio rufo ; pun6lo un- 

 trinque albo, tibiis bafi albis. Fabr. Ent. Syft. 

 T. 2. p. 128. 16.— Rof*. Fn. Etr. 2. 34. 737.— 

 Gmel. 2673. S. 



G 2 



Thit 



