218 HYMENOPTERA. 



in the centre of its apex, and the fifth and sixth segments being 



entirely black. 



Hab. India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



46. AMMOPHILA PUNCTATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 8 lines. Black : the face covered with 

 silvery pile, the cheeks and sides of the thorax have a thin long 

 white pubescence ; the head, pro- and metathorax, scutellum 

 and post-scutellum strongly punctured ; the metathorax trans- 

 versely rugose, and having a central longitudinal carina; its 

 extreme apex, the sides of the thorax, and the tubercles densely 

 clothed with silvery pile ; the collar has a minute tubercle in the 

 middle ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, their apical margins 

 faintly clouded. Abdomen : the second joint of the petiole, 

 except its extreme base, and the first and second segments of the 

 abdomen ferruginous. 

 Hab. Northern India. 



47- AMMOPHILA VAGABUNDA. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Black: the face has a few scat- 

 tered large punctures interspersed with very fine ones. The pro- 

 thorax transversely rugose anteriorly and punctured posteriorly, 

 and having an abbreviated impressed line at its hinder mar- 

 gin ; the mesothorax has a longitudinal central impressed line, 

 and is strongly punctured, the punctures becoming confluent, 

 and forming "irregular striae at the sides ; the scutellum longitu- 

 dinally rugose ; the enclosed portion of the metathorax obliquely 

 rugose-striate, the sides of the thorax and also beneath rugose ; 

 the wings subhyaline, slightly iridescent, and faintly clouded at 

 their apical margins. Abdomen : the second joint of the petiole 

 and first segment of the abdomen ferruginous, the base of the 

 former black ; the apical segments of a blue-black. 

 Hab. North China (Tein-tung ; Foo-chou-foo) ; Sumatra; North- 

 ern India. 



48. AMMOPHILA PULCHELLA. B.M. 



Male. Length 8|-10 lines. Black : the face covered with 

 silvery pile ; the pro- and metathorax transversely striated ; the 

 scutellum and post-scutellum longitudinally striated, the meta- 

 thorax rugose ; the wings flavo-hyaline, and having a faint cloud 

 on their apical margins, the nervures fusco-ferruginous ; the 

 underside of the second joint of the abdomen ferruginous ; the 

 abdomen blue, and thinly covered with cinereous pile. 

 Hab. Hong Kong; North China (Shanghai). 



This is probably the male of A. simillima. 



