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PLATE CCCCXVL 



VESPA CRIBRARIA. 



HTMENOPTEEA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



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

 filiform : antennae filifiorm, the firft joint longeft and cylindrical : 

 eyes lunar : body glabrous : fting pungent, and concealed within the 

 abdomen: upper wings folded in both fexes. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : abdomen banded with yellow, the middle ones interrupted : 

 anterior Ihanks with concave fliields. 



Vespa Cribraria : Linn. Syft. Nat. 12. 2. p. 945. n. 23.— Fn. 



Suec. 2. n. 1675. 

 Crabro Crieraria: nigra, abdomine fafciis : intermediis inter- 



ruptis, tibiis anticis clypeis concavis. Fabr. Sp. 



Inf. I. p. 470. n. Q.—Mant. Inf. L p. 296. 



11. 13. 

 Apis tibiis anticis lamella cribriformi. Uddm. Dif. 94. 



Fay Inf. p. 255. n. 15. 



Rolander Acl Stockh. 1751. p. 56. t. 3. /. 1. 

 Crabro Cribmrius : Panzer Fn. Inf. Germ. 



Found 



