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PLATE DIL 



VESPA CRABRQ. 



HORNET. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth horny, with compreffed jaw : feelers four, unequal,, filiform: 

 antennae filiform, the firil joint longer and cylindrical : eyes lunar : 

 body glabrous : upper wings folded in each fex : fting pungent, con- 

 cealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



SYNONYMS. 



Thorax black : the anterior part rufous and immaculate : incifures 

 sf the abdomen with a double contiguous black dot. 



i^ESPA Crabro : thorace nigro : antice rufo immaculato : abdominis 

 incifuris pun&o nigro duplici contiguo. Linn. 

 Syft. Nat. 2. 948. 3.— Fn. Suec. iQlO.—Fabr, 

 Ent. Syft. T. 2. p. 255. 

 Geoff. Inf. 2. 368. 1. 1 



Schceff. Icon. 53. f. 5. tab. 136. jig. $» 

 Reaum. Inf. 4. tab. 10. jig. Q. 

 Mouffet. Inf. 50, 



The 



