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Show 134 INSECTA. Sometimes the pal pi are very short; those of the maxillre have but four joints and the lab.ials but two. Such is the B. rostrata; .flpis rostrata, L.; Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ., I, 10. The male large, black, with transversal bands of lemonyellow on the abdomen, the first of which is interrupted, and the others undulated. The female, which has less yellow about the head than the male, forms deep holes in the sand, where she heaps up the bodies of various dipterous Insects, particularly Syrphi and Muscre, and lays her eggs; she then closes the opening with earth. Throughout Europe( 1). Sometimes the maxillary palpi, which are tolerably elongated, consist of six joints, and the labials of four, as in MoNEDULA, Lat.(2) The others have no false proboscis, and the labrum is short and rounded. Such is STrzus, Lat. Jur.(3) 5. Other Fossores, ha~ing nearly the same appearance as those of the preceding division, differ from them in the labrum, which is either totally or partially hidden; their mandibles present a deep notch in their interior side near their base, a character which distinguishes them both from the preceding and following Insects. They are our LARRATES. Here the superior wings have three closed cubital cells, the second of which receives the two recurrent nervures. PALARUS,. Lat.-Gonius, Jur. Where the an tenure are very short and gradually enlarge; the eyes are closely approximated posteriorly and enclose the ocelli; the second cubital cell is petiolate( 4). (1) See Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, 97. (2) Lat., Ibid.; most of the genus Bembex, Fab. (3) Lat., Ibid.; most of the Larrce, Fab., such as the L. vespiformi8, erytrotb phala, cincta, r:rassicornis, bifasciata, analis, ru.ficornis, cingulata, ru.fifrons, bico/or, fasciata. (4) See La.t, Gen. Crust. et Ins~ct., IV, 97; and his Consid. gener. sur l'ordre des Crust. des Arach. et des Insect. IIY.ME~OPTEUA. 135 LYROPS, Illig.-Lin .s , Fab.-Larra J . Where th ' ur. e antennre are fi)'f, narrow, oblique, aim 1 orm, where the third . offers a dentiform o~t I~nate, and the inner side f chubltal cell is , Pt'OJectwn( 1 ). 0 t e mandibles LARRA, Fab, . Hardly differs f rom L yrop , tnner side of the m . s except in the absenc the evidently longe~ndibles, the equal distance betw: of ~eeth on the There, the sup . met~thot·ax and abdomen(2) en t e eyes, and f cnor wmg 1 • o which receives a recurren~ ~::::r~~ two closed cubital cells, each DrNETus, Jur. Where th e two cubit r males are moniliform in; .cells are sessile. The ant are tridentated on th . eriOrly, and then filiform T ennre of the w'th e mner sid . he rna d'bl 1 an appendix(3). e, and the radial cell is furnn is1 heeds W MrsooPnus, J ur. . here the second cubi . a?pendage. The ante tal cell Is petiolate and the . Slde of the mand'bl nnre are filiform in b th radial offers no 1 es presents, at most, a sli;ht se~es.. The inner 6. W . proJection( 4). e now come to F pletely ~r partially hiddc:ssores, in which the Jabru . proboscis whe h . ' where the max'Il m Is also com- . . ' re t e mner sid 1 re and Iabi gmatlOn, where the h . e of the mandibles . _urn form no _angular or ovoido-con _ea~ " of an ordinary size thexhibits no emar· It~ extremity, and nevlca ' and becoming graduail e abdomen is tri· fihform and the' fi er placed on a long p d' I y narrower towards N YSSONEs. 1r rst J·O I· Dt but slio-htly e Ic e Th I o e 1o ngat· ed eT antennre are n some the eyes . · hey are our are entire. (1) Lat., Ibid., 71. (2) Lat., lbid., 70. (3) Lat., Ibid 7o ( 4) ., .<; Lat., Gen . C ru. st. et Insect IV 7 ., ' 2. |