Habitat: Jamaica.
Head brown orange. Antennæ almost black, and near the length of the thorax. Eyes large, and dark brown. Thorax brown orange-coloured, and hairy, with a black spot between the wings. Wings nearly transparent, and doubled or folded together. Abdomen shining and very smooth, red brown, and united to the thorax by a small but short thread-like peduncle. Legs red brown, and, except the fore ones, furnished with three spines at the tips of the tibiæ.
Drury described this insect as having the wings doubled or folded together, a peculiarity observed only in the wasps, amongst which the insect was placed by our author, who named it Vespa Jamaicensis. My specimen of this insect, which I have reason to believe belonged to Drury, is so pinned, that the upper surface of the thorax is pressed down, and the upper wing forced backwards, and thrown nearly upside down, which was evidently the case with the specimen described by Drury.
SCOLIA FOSSULANA.
Plate [XLIV]. fig. 5.
Order: Hymenoptera. Section: Fossores. Family: Scoliidæ.
Genus. Scolia, Fabr. Sphex, Drury.
Scolia Fossulana. Atra, thorace flavido hirto, abdomine fasciis quatuor flavis, intermediis dentatis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc.)
Syn. Scolia fossulana, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 242. No. 18.
Sphex plumipes, Drury, App. vol. 2.