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 PLATE XCIIL 



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SPHEX SABULOSA. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the female armed 

 with a fting. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Jaws, without Tongue* Antennae of fixteen joints. Wings in- 

 cumbent, not folded. Sting riged. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae, Head, Thorax, and Legs black. Abdomen club-ihaped ; 

 connected by a flender thread j orange colour ; extremity black. 

 Sphex Sabulosa. Syji. Ent. 346, i.—Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 94.1. i 4 

 — Fn. Sv. 1648. 

 Sphex, &c. Degeer Inf. 2. 2. 148. 4. tab. 28. fig. 27. 

 Ichneumon, &c. Geoff. Inf. 2. 349. 63. 

 Scop. cam. 'J 'jo. 

 Frifch. Inf. 2. tab. i.fig. 6. 7. 

 Sulz. Inf. tab. ig.fig. 120. 

 Schaff. Icon. 83. Jig. I. 

 Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 442. 112. 1. 



Sphex Sabulofa is a very bufy and voracious Infect ; it fometimes 

 fubfifts on vegetable matter, frequently on fmall flies \ we have never 

 found it common near London, 



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