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THE TAILED WASP, 
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Genus III . — Sir ex. Tlje Tailed Wafp, 
T HE animals of this genus are not fo numerous nor di- 
Verfified as the laft, but are greatly fuperior in fizc ; the 
mouth is armed with two ftron'g jaws ; the palpi fhort, 
and articulated ; the antennae are filiform, and confift of 
near thirty articulations ; the fling is long, ftiff, ferrated, 
and proje&ing beyond the abdomen ; the wings are plain, 
and of the fliape of a lance; the abdomen is flender, ter- 
minating in a point towards the fling f. 
Of the feven different kinds of firices, the gigas of 
Limtaus is the largeft ; the male, indeed, as is frequently 
the cafe, is one third lefs in fize than his female, and has 
neither fpine nor fling at his extremity : That inftru- 
ment, however, is formidable in the other fex ; it confifts 
of three laminae; two at the fides. which ferve for {heaths, 
and one in the middle, fomewhat ferrated, which is the 
teal fling. 
The wings of this fpecies are large, yellow, and vein- 
ed ; the thighs fhort, and black ; and the legs, as Well as 
the tarfi, are yellow ; the antenna are of the fame co- 
lour, and are inferted into a black head, which has ap- 
3 parently 
f Syft, Nat. Ord. V, GeB. 3. 
