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 {96}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. Head yellow; but on the top, near the ocelli, black and hairy. Antennæ shorter than the thorax, dark brown, yellow next the head to the first joint, including about a third part. Thorax yellow, slightly hairy; having three black stripes on the top and two on each side meeting on the breast. Wings thin, almost transparent, and doubled or folded longitudinally. Abdomen dark orange, with a black ring next the anus, and two lesser ones near the thorax; none of which are seen underneath, being there entirely of a dark orange. Legs yellow, and furnished with two spines at the tips of the tibiæ; the anterior having only one. POLYDESMUS (FONTARIA) VIRGINIENSIS. Plate XLIII. fig. 8. ORDER: Chilognatha, _Latreille_. Aptera, _Linnæus, Drury_. FAMILY: Julidæ. GENUS. POLYDESMUS, _Latreille, Brandt in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vol._ 6. Julus, _Fabr._ Fontaria, _J. E. Gray._ POLYDESMUS (FONTARIA) VIRGINIENSIS. Corpore pallide griseo, segmentis convexis, articulo pedum secundo acutissimo. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 6 lin.) SYN. Julus virginiensis, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Pal. Beauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Apter. pl._ 4. _f._ 5. _p._ 156. Julus tridentatus, _Fabr._ Fontaria Virginiensis, _J. E. Gray in Griff. An. K. Ins. pl._ 135. _f._ 1. HABITAT: Virginia.