Habitat: Virginia (Drury).
Head dark brown colour, like the rust of iron. Antennæ shorter than the thorax; dark brown, yellow at the tips. Thorax dark brown, with a black stripe on each side. Wings extending beyond the abdomen, thin, membranaceous, and dark brown, not perfectly transparent, and doubled or folded lengthways together. Abdomen black, except the first segment, which is dark orange, margined with yellow. Anterior femora dark brown, the other parts of those legs yellow. The other legs dark brown; the tips of the tibiæ and the tarsi being yellow.
POLISTES SQUAMOSA.
Plate [XLIII]. fig. 7.
Order: Hymenoptera. Section: Diploptera. Family: Vespidæ, Leach.
Genus. Polistes, Fabr. Vespa, Linn. Drury.
Polistes Squamosa. Thoracis dorso nigro lineis flavis, scutello flavo lineâ nigrâ, abdomine fulvo annulo nigro versus apicem. (Long. Corp. 10 lin.)
Syn. Vespa Squamosus, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Polistes lineata? Fabr. Syst. Piez. 271. 9. Ent. Syst. 2. 259. 20.
Habitat: New York.