208 Rev. Mr. Kirey’s Account of the Ammophila, : 
4. AMMoPHILA ‘ argentea. 
Silver-fronted Sandwafp. ; ON } : 
A. antennis quatugrdecim-nodiis ; abdominis petiolo uniarticu- 
lato ; alis corpore brevioribus. 
: 
, : 
Caput nigro-villofum. Maxille acumine fufco. Antenne thoracis 
feré longitudine.- Frons planiufcula, infra antennas pilis 
- denfis decumbentibus argenteo-nitidiflimis, nifi a tergo vix 
confpicuis, teéta. 
Thorax anguftus; fubvillofus uti pettus villis certo fitu argenteis. } 
Squame nigra. 
., Ale {ubhyalinz, apice obfcuriores, nervis REIN abdomine 
dimidio feré breviores. 
Abdomen clavatum, fegmento primo filiforuai nigro s Sanit cam- 
panulato tertioque rufis; quate rufo, apice nigro; reliquis 
nigris. nile ty ; 
‘Pedes fetulis brevibus afperi. 
Long. corp. lin. 53. 
Semel capta, fed ubi et brani! nefcio. 
, At firft fight one staid take this, Tae for A. valearis 8, but 
upon amnearer infpection it,will be found very diftmét. The front 
has no fovea, and from the antenna downwards is quite covered with 
‘a coat of filver pile, which, when the light falls upon it from above, 
gives it a very glittering: appearance. ;| From the midit of this pile 
-other’ longer black. hairs,. thinly {cattered, arife. The antennie 
confift of fourteen ;joints,! counting the minute one at their bale, 
The willi of the trunk glitter in certain lights, but not fo much as 
the pile on the front: the footftalk er the abdomen confifts of a 
fingle 
