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wings deep fuscous, adorned with brilliant purple iridescence ; 

 the legs and the abdomen black, the latter thinly covered with 

 fine grey silky pile. 



Hah. Port Natal. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



30. Ammophila insignis. 



Female. Length 14 lines. — Head black, with the clypeus, 

 mandibles and antennte ferruginous ; the tips of the mandibles 

 black, and four or five of the apical joints of the llagellum fus- 

 cous. Thorax ferruginous, the mesothorax in the middle, above, 

 and a stain at the sides and beneath fuscous; the metathorax 

 fuscous above ; the mesothorax transversely striated ; the entire 

 thorax clothed with very short pale golden pubescence, which is 

 dense on the metathorax and on the sides, concealing the sculp- 

 ture ; legs red, the posterior trochanters above, and the femora 

 at their base above having a fuscous line ; wings hyaline, their 

 nervures and tegulee red. The abdomen beneath, the petiole 

 and basal segment red, the following segments black above. 



Male. Length 13 lines. — Black ; the clypeus much produced, 

 its apex emarginate, and having a longitudinal elevated carina 

 down the middle ; the face clothed with pale golden pubescence. 

 Thorax black; wings as in the other sex; the legs red; the 

 tarsi, a stripe on the intermediate femora above, the posterior 

 coxfe, trochanters and femora, fuscous. Abdomen : the petiole 

 fuscous above ; otherwise as in the other sex. 



Hob. Africa (the Gambia). (Coll.W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



3L Ammophila erythropus. 



Ammophila ruiipes, «S^. Farg. Hym. iii. 36/. 5, nee Guer. 



Hab. Senegal; Gambia. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



Specimens from the Gambia have the mandibles, anterior 

 margin of the clypeus, and three basal joints of the antennae, 

 ferrusrinous. 



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32. Ammophila cyanipennis. B.M. 

 Ammophila cyanipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 3/0. 9, 



Hab. Senegal. 



33. Ammophila Beniniensis. B.M. 

 Sphex Beniniensis, Pal. de Beauv. his. p. 48. t. 7- f. 1. 



Hab. West Africa (Benin); Sierra Leone; Port Natal. 



