i88 ORDER V. Sphej, 



the two firft of which are Linnaean Spheges, 

 and diftinsuifhed from one another by the fame 

 circumftances as by Linnaeus ; the third (the 

 abdomen of which he fays is feffile) contains 

 the Chryfes of our author, which differ from the 

 Spheges in the formation of their antennas, in 

 the lateral fcale of the abdomen, which the Iafl> 

 mentioned infects want, and in the fpines which 

 terminate the thorax and belly. 



Geoffrey has placed fuch Spheges as were 

 known to him among his Ichneumons, as 

 Linnaeus had likewife done, in the tenth edi- 

 tion of his Syft. Naturae. It has already been 

 (hewn, that they differ from that genus in the 

 number of articulations which compofe their 

 antennae, and in the pofuion of their fting, 

 which in the laft- mentioned genus is exferted. 



Sdiseffer has, like Linnaeus, feparated the 

 Spheges from the Ichneumons, and affigns 

 them the following characters : 



The tarfus of each foot compofed of five 



articulations. 



The antennae club-formed, and bent. 



The mouth armed with jaws, and furniflied 



with palpi. 



The 



