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HYMENOPTERA. 
species is found in New Holland.” It is most probable that the Australasian specimens 
constitute a distinct but very closely allied species. The Stilbum princeps of 
G. R. Gray, figured in Griffith’s Animal Kingdom, Insects, pi. 77, from the collection 
of the Rev. F. W. Hope, is from Melville Island, and is perhaps identical with the 
New Holland variety, mentioned by Fabricius and Donovan. 
VESPA CINCTA. 
Plate LVII. fig. 1. 
Section. Aculeata, Latreille. 
Family. Vespid.*, Leach. 
Genus. Vespa, Linnceus. 
Species. Vespa Cincta: nigra; capitenigro; thorace maculato scutelloque obscuro, fulvis; 
abdomine atro fascia ferruginea; alis ferrugineis, basi nigris. Long. Corp. unc. 1. 
Vespa : black, with the head black ; thorax with two spots on each side before the 
wings, and the scutellum obscure fulvous ; abdomen black, with a ferruginous or 
fulvous bar ; wings ferruginous ; black at the base. Length of the body, 1 inch. 
Syn. Vespa cincta, Fair. Ent. Syst. 2. p. 253. Syst. Piez. p. 253. St. Fargeau Hist. 
Nat. Hymenopt. 1. p. 505. 
Sphex tropica, Sulzer Hist. Ins. tab. 27, Jig. 5. 
Either this species is subject to considerable variation in its colours, or (which 
appears to me to be the case,) several distinct species have been confounded together 
under the name of V. cincta. Fabricius describes V. cincta from Tranquebar with the 
characters which I have abstracted above, adding a variety from the Cape of Good 
Hope, and a species under the name of V. affinis, being, as he says, “ Nimis affinis 
V. cinctse.” M. le Comte de Saint Fargeau has also described two other varieties, 
under the name of cincta, neither of which precisely agree with the Fabrician 
character. 
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