220 HYMENOPTERA. 



the legs black; the abdomen blue-black, the second joint of the 

 petiole and base of the abdomen ferruginous beneath. 

 The male only differs in being rather smaller. 



Hab. Brazil. 



54. Ammophila rufipes. 



Ammophila rufipes, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. pt. 2. p. 262. Atlas, 

 Ins. no. 9. f. 1. 



Spin. Gay's Chili, vi. 393. 1. 



Hab. Peru. 



55. Ammophila abbreviata. B.M. 



Pelopojus abbreviatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 204. 8. 

 Ammophila abbreviata, Dahlb. Hym. Europ, i. 15. 



St. Farg. Hym. in. 3/5. 15. 



Erichs. Faun, et Fl. Brit. Guiana, 588. 1. 



Hab. South America. 



56. Ammophila Eugenia. 



Female. Length 15 lines. — Head and thorax black; the face 

 densely clothed with golden pile ; the clypeus produced and 

 having a short blunt tooth at the apex ; mandibles ferruginous, 

 their tips black. The pro- and mesothorax and also the tegulaj 

 covered with a changeable pale golden silky pile ; the tubercles, 

 a large patch beneath the wings, and a spot at the apex of the 

 metathorax, on each side of the insertion of the petiole, of pale 

 golden pubescence ; the coxee and breast are also thinly covered 

 with a similar coloured pile ; the enclosed portion of the meta- 

 thorax obliquely rugose-striate in the middle and evenly striated 

 at the sides ; the legs red ; a stripe on the intermediate femora 

 above, another above and beneath on the posterior pair, the 

 knees, the tips of the joints of the tarsi, and the claw-joint, 

 entirely black ; the wings hyaline, their apical margins faintly 

 clouded. Abdomen ferruginous, covered with a fine sericeous 

 pile ; the first joint of the petiole and the base of the second 

 joint black ; the third segment black, its apical margin narrowly 

 ferruginous in the middle. 



Hab. Rio Grande. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



57. Ammophila ruficosta. 



Ammophila ruficosta. Spin. Gay's Chili, vi. 394. 2. 

 Hab. ChiU. 



