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PLATE CCXXVI. 



VESPA VULGARIS. 



Common Wasp. 



Hymenoptera. 



Wings 4, membranous in general. Tail of the female armed 

 with a fting. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

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

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

 pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Thorax with a yellow interrupted line on each fide : fcutel with 

 four yellow fpots : abdomen yellow, with diftinft black dots on the 

 incifures. 



VespA Vulgaris : thorace utrinque lineola interrupta, fcutello 

 quadrimaculato, abdominis incifuris punclis nigris 

 diftinais. Fab. Syji. Ent. 3PA. 0.— Spec. Inf. 1. 

 460 . 9.— Lin. Syjf. Nat. 2. 949. 4.—Fn. Sv. 1671. 



Vefpa nigra luteaque, antennis tods nigns. Degeer Inf. 2. 2. 111. 

 tab. 26. fig- 7. 



Vefpa thorace lineolis trium parium differentium flauves centium. 

 Geoff. Inf. 2. 369. 2. 



Sch&ff, 



