24 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL. MUSEUMS. 
upper surface of the four front femora, a line down the tibie, and three broad 
and one narrow band on the abdomen. Hair on the underside of the tibiz and 
tarsi golden or rufous ; tongue, terminal joint of antenne, and terminal joint 
of the tarsi red. Eyes long, inner orbits slightly convex above, and hardly 
converging below, clypeus truncated at the extremity, pronotum sparingly 
punctured, abdomen very finely and thickly. Tegule testaceous, wings 
hyaline, with brown nervures and reddish stigma. 
Two specimens. Abd-el-Kuri, 22. I. 99. 
Apide. 
Podalirius, Latrei/le. 
(27) Podalirius pyramidalis. 
Long. corp. 9-10 mm. ; long. al. ant. 8-9 mm. : 
Black, vertex, thorax above, and the front legs and upper and outer side 
of the four hind femora and tibie clothed with fulvous hair. Inner and 
hinder orbits and sides of clypeus clothed with white hair. Clypeus arched 
above and ‘cut off straight below ; black above, yellow at the extremity, with 
a pyramidal spot rising from it to two-thirds of its height. Labrum and 
lower mouth-parts yellow, labrum with a black dot at the base on each side, 
sometimes connected by a black line. Antenne dark reddish brown, almost 
black. Pleura clothed with greyish hair. Abdomen black, very finely 
punctured, with four snow-white bands at the extremities of the segments ; 
terminal segment with greyish white hair on each side at the base. Wings 
hyaline, with brown nervures. 
Four specimens. Abd-el-Kuri, 22. IL. 99. 
C. Hymenoptera from Arabia. 
Aculeata. 
Fossores. 
Sphegidz. 
Ammophila, Kirby. 
(28) Ammophila arabica. 
Long. corp. 20 mm. ; long. al. ant. 11 mm. 
Female. Head and thorax black, clothed with fine silvery pile ; lower 
mouth-parts, scape of antenne, pronotum, legs and abdomen fulvous ; middle 
femora slightly marked above with black ; hind cox, trochanters, femora, 
and basal joint of tarsi striped with black ; abdomen with the second joint 
of the petiole lined with black above ; first segment of the abdomen obscurely 
marked with black above, longitudinally ; the third and fourth black above, 
the latter clothed with silvery pile ; rest of abdomen wanting ; wings clear 
hyaline, slightly clouded at the tips ; mesonotum transversely striate ; the 
other thoracic segments rugose-punctate. 
A single damaged specimen. Lahej, Arabia, 27. XI. 98. 

