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PLATE CCCXXIX. 



SPHEX APPENDIGASTER, 



Small-bodied Ichneumon Wasp. 



Hymenoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth armed with jaws, no tongue. Antennas confift of ten 

 articulations. Wings extended, without folds, and laid horizontally 

 upon the back. Sting Iharp and pointed, and concealed within the 

 abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black. Abdomen fmall, joined to the thorax by a footftalk, 

 Pofterior legs very long. 



Sphex Append i gaster : atra abdomine petiolata breviflimo, pe~ 

 dibus pofticis longi (Tunis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 

 945. 12. — Gmel. Linn. Syjl. Nat. p. 2723.245. 



fp.is. 



Evania Appendigaster : atra abdomine petiolato breviffimo 

 dorfo thoracis impofito, pedibus pofticis lon- 

 giffimis. Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 2. 141. 1. 

 Degeer. Inf. 3. 394. tab. 30. Jig. 14. 

 Reaum. Inf. 6. tab. 31, Jig. 13. 



