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PHILANTHUS FLAVIPES. 



YELLOW LEGGED PHILANTHUS. 

 Vefpa Linn. 



HYMENOPTERAj 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth horny, with a compreffed jaw : feelers four, unequal and 

 filiform : antennae filiform, the firft joint longer and cylindrical : 

 eyes lunar : body glabrous : upper wings folded in each fex : fting 

 pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. 



* Lip compreffed, rounded and longer than the jaw. Philanthus 

 Fabr. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : thorax fpotted 3 abdomen yellow, with the edges of the 

 fegments and tail black. 



Philanthus flavipes : niger thorace maculato, abdomine flavo : 

 fegmentorum marginibrs anoque nigris. Fabr. 

 Ent. Sj/Ji. T. 2. p. 290. n. 7 — Crabro j?la- 

 vipes. Fabr. Want. Inf. I. 295. 8. 



Defcribed by Fabricius as a native of Italy, where it appears to be 

 a rare in feci; ; it is likewife found in Germany and England, but is not 



common in either country. 



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