Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . THE SPHEGIDjE. 459 streaks of steely blue, each streak having a narrow edge Fig. L>39.—Pepsis nigrescens, (New species.)(Black ; wings streaked with blue and purple.) With this insect we end the Pompilidse, and now proceed tothe next group. The Sphegidse are at once known by the shape of the is attached to the thorax by a long footstalk, composedof the first segment of the abdomen greatly elongated, just

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