hymenoptera. 211 



17. Ammophila nasuta. B.M. 



Ammophila nasuta, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 380. 20. 

 Leon Dufour, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 292. 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 375. t. 14. f. 7« 



Hab. Algeria (Oran) ; Portugal. 



18. Ammophila argentea. B.M. 



Ammophila argentea, Bridle, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. iii. ^b. 

 Ammophila argentata, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 366. 3. ? t. 30. f. 2. 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 274. t. 14. f. 6. 



Hab. Canary Islands ; Algeria (Oran). 



19. Ammophila festiva. B.M. 



Female. Length 12 lines. — Black : head and thorax clothed 

 with silvery pile, dense and brilliant on the face and sides of the 

 thorax, as well as on the collar ; a broad silver stripe passes over 

 the tegulai and unites with a similar stripe which runs from the 

 collar to the middle of the disk ; the anterior legs and interme- 

 diate femora and tibiae ferruginous ; the femora fuscous above ; 

 the calcaria pale rufo-testaceous ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and margins of the tegulae ferruginous. Abdomen : thinly co- 

 vered with silvery pile, the petiole and first segment of the 

 abdomen black at the base; the apex, the second and third 

 segments above and the entire abdomen beneath, ferruginous. 



Hab. Tunis. 



20. Ammophila rubripes. 



Ammophila rubripes. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.\\i.A(db.\9 {!%?>?)), 

 Hab. Egypt. 



21. Ammophila ebenina. 



Ammophila ebenina, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 464. 18. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 366, 4. 



Hab. Eg}-pt. 



22. Ammophila incana. B.M. 

 Ammophila incana, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 21. 423. 



Hab. Africa. 



23. Ammophila canescens. 



Ammophila canescens, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 21 & 432. 

 Hab. Africa. 



