Order: Hymenoptera. Section: Diploptera. Family: Vespidæ, Leach.
Genus. Eumenes, Fabr. Latr. Vespa, Linn. Drury.
Eumenes Abdominalis. Fusco-fulva, antennis fuscis apice nigris, abdomine pyriformi petiolo longo nigro apice fulvo, segmento sequenti nigricanti. (Long. Corp. 10½ lin.)
Syn. Sphex abdominalis, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Habitat: Jamaica.
Head brown yellow. Eyes black. Antennæ brown, but near their extremities black, being the length of the thorax. Thorax brown yellow. Wings membranaceous, yellowish, and almost transparent, being folded longitudinally. Abdomen round, and longer than the thorax, brown yellow; the first segment (exclusive of the peduncle) black, with several black spots or streaks on the under side. It is attached to the thorax by a curved peduncle, considerably less than itself, being black; but at the tip yellow, and of the length of the thorax. Breast and sides black, streaked with brown. Legs brown yellow, furnished with a spine at the tips of the tibiæ, except the hinder ones, which have two.
CENTRIS GROSSA.
Plate [XLV]. fig. 3.
Order: Hymenoptera. Section: Mellifera. Family: Apidæ, Leach.
Genus. Centris, Fabr. Apis, Linn. Drury.