76 SPHECID&. 
De Geer, 2. pt. 2. 822. Pl. 28. f. 7—15; Rossi, 2. 90. 808 ; Illig. 
F. E. 2.91; Latr. H. 13. 292. 1. 
—— dimidiata. Christ. 313. Pl. 31. f. 4. 
lutaria. Panz. 65.14 @. 
Ichneumon. Geoffroy, 2. 349. 63. 
Ammophila vulgaris. Kirby, Trans. Lin. Society, vol. 4, p. 195. 1. 
Black: head punctured, pubescent, with a deep longitudinal 
impression arising between the antenne at their base, and ex- 
tending to the anterior stemma, and thence enclosing the whole 
of the stemmata. 
Thorax punctured, pubescent ; the tubercles, an oblique ovate 
spot on each side beneath the wings, and on each side at the 
insertion of the abdomen, covered with a dense sericeous down ; 
the scutellum longitudinally striated; the metathorax with a 
slight central longitudinal elevation, the sides having rather 
coarse oblique wrinkles, diverging from the centre; the tegule 
piceous ; the wings hyaline, with the nervures piceous, and a 
broad black band on the exterior edge extending inwardly as 
far as the marginal cell; legs black; the coxe covered with a 
short sericeous down, as well as the undersides of the meso- 
thorax ; the anterior tarsi strongly ciliated on the exterior; the 
tibize spinose, the posterior pair less strongly so than the four 
anterior. 
The abdomen clavate, finely punctured, pubescent ; the first 
joint of the petiole and base of the second black ; the remainder 
of the second, and the whole of the second segment of the 
abdomen, and base of the third, red; the rest black, the anal 
segment having at its extremity several rigid hairs 9. 
The ¢ differs in having the whole body considerably more 
pubescent, the anterior portion of the face covered with a dense 
sericeous down; the metathorax more irregularly rugose; the 
legs less spinose, and it has a black longitudinal stripe along the 
top of the second joint of the petiole and second segment of 
the abdomen, but which varies much in the depth of its colour, 
being sometimes obsolete. 
In most Cabinets. 
