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PLATE CCCCLXXIV. 



BEMBEX OCTO-PUNCTATA. 



OCTO-PUNCTATED WASP. 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth horny, with arched and pointed jaws : tongue inflected and 

 quinquefid: upper lip much advanced: feelers four, fhort, unequal, 

 filiform : antennae filiform, the first joint thrice the length of the 

 others : eyes large, and occupying the whole fides of the head : body 

 glabrous : fling pungent, and concealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Bembex Octg-PUNCTAta. Greenim, varied with bands and lines 

 of black : two black dots on each of the firft four 

 fegments of the abdomen. 



The fmaller figure in the annexed plate denotes the natural fize of 

 Bembex octo-punctata ; the enlarged reprefentation being intended 

 to exprefs its appearance before the lens of the opake microfcope. 



We are not aware that any fpecies of the Bembex genus has been 

 before defcribed or mentioned as a native of this country. The genus 

 is rather limited in point of number, and is confined, with few excep- 

 tions to extra European climates. Bembex rohrata is the moil 

 common of the European kinds, and is found in France, and other 



parts 



