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FIG. II. 

 VESPA QUADRATA, 



QUADRATE WASP- 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Vespa Quadrata. Head and thorax black, the latter with yellow 

 anterior margin : abdomen with a fquare fpot of 

 black at the bafe, and broad black band in the 

 middle. 



Vespa Quadeata. Panzer. Inf. Germ. 



Exceeds the former fpecies in fize, and differs in having a quadran- 

 gular inilead of triangular black fpot at the bafe of the abdomen, and 

 the thorax marked in the middle with dots of yellow. This fpecies isf 

 not uncommon. 



It has not been conceived requifite to add an enlarged figure of thi? 

 infecl. 



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