266 SJOSTEDTS KILIMAND.TARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



scutellum ]>unctured, the post-scutellum finely, closely rugose; the metanotum somewhat 

 strongly and closely transversely striated. Head and thorax densely covered with a white 

 pruinose pile, which gives them a white appearance. Eyes a little converging above. 

 Hinder ocelli separated from each other by a little less distance than they are from the 

 eyes. tf. - Length 22 2-i mm. 



Kilimandjaro : Kibonoto, cultivated zone, 1300 1900 m., 9th May. - - Meru low 

 lands, Ngare na nyuki, November. 



The 3rd antennal joint is a little shorter than the following 2 united. The white 

 silvery pubescence on the face and clypeus is very dense. Tarsi thickly covered witli 

 short black, thickish spines. 



Ammopkila beninieiisis, PAL. 



Spliex benimens'is, PALISOT DE BEAUV. Ins. p. 48, t. 7, f. 1; Ammopliiht liaii- 

 iiii'iisis, SMITH, Cat. Hym. Ins. Ill, 213, 33; BINGHAM, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) X, 

 218 (1902). Neither the description nor the figure of the above species is good, but there 

 are a number of specimens in the collection which fit them ; and Col. C. J. BINGHAM 

 tells me that they are identical with 6 specimens in the British Museum which have bore 

 the name of beniniensis since 1856. These are from the Congo, Sierra Leone and Port 

 Natal. As I have a specimen from the Cape, as well as the numerous examples from 

 Masai Land it is clear that the species has a wide distribution. As A. beniniensis has 

 been very imperfectly described I have given a description of it in full of both sexes. 

 It is variable as regards the quantity of red on the collar and on the legs: thus the tibiae 

 may be entirely black, entirely reddish or red at the base only. 



Black, the apical segments of the abdomen tinged with blue and covered with a 

 white pile; the head and thorax densely covered with black hair; the basal 2 joints of 

 the antennae, the base of the 3rd entirely and the rest of it below, the head, prothorax, 

 a mark on the sides of the mesonotum in front of the tegula?, tubercles, the 4 front 

 legs, the apex of the hind femora narrowly and the greater part of the hinder tibiae, red; 

 wings fuscous violaceous, the nervures and stigma black; the tegulae reddish. Posterior 

 part of the pronotum somewhat strongly, irregularly striated; the mesonotum irregularly, 

 transversely striated, the striae more or less curved; the scutellum coarsely longitudinally 

 striated; the post-scutellum less strongly striated, the strias oblique; the metanolum closely, 

 strongly, somewhat irregularly, transversely striated. Propleurae, except at the base, 

 stoutly striated, the striae running more or less obliquely, from the top to the bottom; 

 the mesopleurae irregularly striated from top to bottom ; the metapleura? more strongly 

 closely, obliquely striated. $. 



Length 2830 mm. 



Head smooth, the hair on it longer and sparser than it is on the thorax; the hinder 

 ocelli are separated from each other by a slightly less distance than they are from the 

 eyes; across, and extending beyond them, is a broad curved black mark. Abdominal 

 petiole 2-jointed, the 2 united as long as the head and thorax united. 3rd joint of 



