Species of wasps and hornets. European hornet, Vespa crabro 1,2, tree wasp, Dolichovespula sylvestrisparietum 4, common wasp, Vespula vulgaris 5, field dagger wasp, Argogorytes mystaceus 6, and lobed mason wasp, Ancistrocerus antilope 7. Section II: sand tailed digger wasp, Cerceris arenaria exultus 1,2, and field digger wasp, Mellinus arvensis 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Moses Harris from his own Exposition of English Insects, Including the several Classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, or Bees, Flies and Libellulae, White and Robson, London, 1782.

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