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men, the legs less spinose and the anterior tarsi not ciliated ; the 
venter has its fifth and sixth segments emarginate, the former 
more slightly than the latter, and the sixth has a deep fossulet 
on each side of its emargination and a longitudinal carina at the 
base of the seventh, the apex of which is truncated. 
In most Cabinets. 
{4+ This is a very common species; it appears very early 
in the year, and I have frequently captured it conveying 
large spiders: it stings severely. A variety, having the apex 
of the posterior femorze red, is found on the continent. Ac- 
cording to the Linnean Cabinet, this is not the Sphex viatica 
of that author, our Ammophila hirsuta being it, but as his 
description perfectly suits it, I have retained his name, 
for the Cabinet, from a variety of unfortunate accidents, is 
not always to be depended upon. 
Sp. 3. cipsus. Lin. 
niger, abdomine ferrugineo, apice fusco, metathorace subtiliter 
punctato, alis anticis apice nigris $ 9. 
length 22—4} lines. 
Fab. E. S. Supp. 249. 17; Piez. 193. 27; Panz. 77. 13; Ency. 
Méth. 10.179. 2; V.d. Lind. pt. 1. 68. 35. 
Sphex gibba. Lin. F. S. 1658; S. N. 946. 33; Fab. S. E. 350. 23; 
E.S. 2. 212. 59 ; Rossi, Illig. 2. 97. 
Black: head delicately punctured, pubescent; apex of the 
mandibles piceous; the labrum transverse; linear almost con- 
cealed. 
Thorax very short and covered at its sides and metathorax with 
a very close short whitish down; the metathorax very obtuse, deli- 
eately punctured, and having a slight longitudinal impression ; 
the wings with their nervures black, and a dark band at their 
external edge, the third submarginal cell very much narrowed 
towards the marginal, or rather triangular; the legs with their 
