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PLATE CCCCXCV. 



FIG. I. I. 

 VESPA ANGULATA. 



ANGULATE WASP. 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

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

 lunar : body glabrous : upper wings folded in each fex : fling pungeut, 

 «oncealed in the abdomen. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vespa Angulata. Head black : thorax black, with yellow ante- 

 rior margin : abdomen yellow, with triangular 

 black fpot at the bafe, and broad black band in 

 the middle. 



This is one of the fmalleft fpecies of the wafp genus : the head and 

 thorax black, except the margin in the front of the latter, which is 

 yellow : the body yellow, with a peculiar angulate or triangujar black 

 fpot at the bafe, pointing downwards, and a band of the fame in the 

 middle. The antenna; and thighs are black, legs yellow. 



This infect does not appear to have been before defcribed. The 

 jailer figure denotes the natural foe. 



