Order: Hymenoptera. Section: Diploptera. Family: Vespidæ, Leach.
Genus. Synagris, Latr. Fabr. Vespa, Linn. Apis, Drury.
Synagris Cornuta. Ferruginea, abdomine alisque nigris, mandibulis porrectis capite longioribus. ♂. (Long. Corp. cum mand. 1 unc. 4½ lin.)
Syn. Vespa cornuta, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 951. 20. Fabr. Syst. Piez. 252. 1. Latr. Hist. Nat. 3. 360. (Synagris c.) Griffith Animal Kingdom, Insects, pl. 106. & 107. fig. 1. Drury, App. vol. 2. (Apis c.)
Habitat: Africa (Fabr.). Anamaboe (Drury).
Front of the head dark orange, the hinder part brown. Antennæ dark orange brown, and about the length of the thorax; the basal joint elongated. Ocelli distinct. From the front of the head proceed two slender horns, about three-eighths of an inch in length, of a solid bony substance, bending at the extremities toward each other, which the insect can open and close together horizontally, and which are the mandibles greatly developed. The base of these horns extends downwards, and forms a kind of hollow beak, terminating in a point which encloses the tongue, and serves as a guard or fence to secure it from external injuries. Thorax and legs orange brown. Abdomen probably of a dark mazarine blue [?] when the insect was living, but is now of a dead black. Wings brown, opake, and shining.
PLATE XLIX.
PHASMA (PLATYCRANA) JAMAICENSIS.
Plate [XLIX]. fig. 1.