CLASS* 
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3. SIREX, TAILED WASP. 
Antennae filiform above 20 joints. Two ftrong 
j?.ws. Palpi 2. Sting rigid, ferrated, projected. 
Abdomen,united to the thorax. 
4. ICHNEUMON. v 
Antennae of more than 3ajoints; long, filiform, 
vibrating, fling within a bival ve ffieath. Mouth 
armed with jaws, without tongue. Abdomen ge¬ 
nerally joined to the body by a pedicle. 
5. S.PHEX, SAVAGE. ' 
Antennae of 10 joints. 
Mouth armed with jaws ; no tongue. Wings ex¬ 
tended, not folded, tail horizontally. Sting fharp and 
pointed, concealed. 
6. CHRYSIS, GOLDEN FLY. 
Antennae filiform of one long and 11 fhort joints. 
Thorax joined to the abdomen by a fhort pedicle. 
Sting (ingle. Wings not folded. Mouth armed 
with jaws ; but no proboicis. 
Body aopears as it girt. 
1 7 . VESPA, WASP. 
Mouth armed with jaws. Wings, upper ones, 
folded. Body fmooth. Sting concealed. 
8. APIS, BEE. 
Mouth armed with jaws, and furnifired with a pro¬ 
bofcis inclofed in a bivalve fheath, and inclined 
downwards under the body. 
Body hairy. Sting concealed. 
' 9. FORMICA, ANT. 
An eredf fcale between the thorax and abdomen. 
Sting concealed. Males without. Males and 
females winged. 
10. MUTILLA. 
For the mo ft part want wings. Body covered with 
a kind of down. Thorax ftrikes oft bluntly at its 
bale, or riles perpendicularly from the part where 
joined to the abdomen. Sting pointed and concealed. 
