( 25 ' ) 
5th GENUS. The SPHEX, (or SAVAGE). PI. XIV. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS. 
The mouth is armed with jaws, but has no tongue; the articulations 
of the antennas are tcn. The wings in both fexes are extended without 
folds, and laid horizontally upon the back. The fting is iharp, and 
conccaled within the abdomen. 
5. GENRE. Le SPHEX. PL XIV. 
CARACTERE DU GENRE. 
La bouche eft armee de mâchoires, mais elle n’a point de langue. 
Les articles des antennes font au nombre de dix. Les ailes de 1 un et de 
l’autre fexe font étendues, fans replis & placées horizontalement fur le 
dos. L’aiguillon eft pointu et caché en dedans du ventre. 
T HIS genus is divided into 
two families. 
C E genre fe divife en deux fa- 
milles. 
1. Abdomine petiolato, petiolo elongato. 
2. Abdomine fubfeflilî. 
1. The abdomen is petiolated, or joined to the thorax by a ftalk. 
2. The abdomen is fubfeflile, or nearly of an cqual fize its whole 
Icngth. 
» J* 
