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wings deep fuscous, adorned with brilliant purple iridescence; 

 the legs and the abdomen black, the latter thinly covered with 

 fine grey silky pile. 

 Hab. Port Natal. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



30. AMMOPHILA INSIGNIS. 



Female. Length 14 lines. Head black, with the clypeus, 

 mandibles and antennae ferruginous ; the tips of the mandibles 

 black, and four or live of the apical joints of the flagellum fus- 

 cous. Thorax ferruginous, the mesothorax in the middle, above, 

 and a stain at the sides and beneath fuscous; the metathorax 

 fuscous above ; the mesothorax transversely striated ; the entire 

 thorax clothed with very short pale golden pubescence, which is 

 dense on the metathorax and on the sides, concealing the sculp- 

 ture ; legs red, the posterior trochanters above, and the femora 

 at their base above having a fuscous line ; wings hyaline, their 

 nervures and tegulse red. The abdomen beneath, the petiole 

 and basal segment red, the following segments black above. 



Male. Length 13 lines. Black ; the clypeus much produced. 

 its apex emarginate, and having a longitudinal elevated carina 

 down the middle ; the face clothed with pale golden pubescence. 

 Thorax black; wings as in the other sex; the legs red; the 

 tarsi, a stripe on the intermediate femora above, the posterior 

 coxae, trochanters and femora, fuscous. Abdomen : the petiole 

 fuscous above ; otherwise as in the other sex. 



Hab. Africa (the Gambia). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



31. AMMOPHILA ERYTHROPUS. 



Ammophila rufipes, St. Farg. Hyrn. hi. 367. 5, nee Guer. 

 Hab. Senegal; Gambia. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



Specimens from the Gambia have the mandibles, anterior 

 margin of the clypeus, and three basal joints of the antennae, 

 ferruginous. 



32. AMMOPHILA CYAXIPENNIS. B.M. 



Ammophila cyanipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 370. 9. 

 Hab. Senegal. 



33. AMMOPHILA BENINIENSIS. B.M. 

 Sphex Beniniensis, Pal. de Beauv. Ins. p. 48. t. 7- f- 1. 



Hab. West Africa (Benin) ; Sierra Leone ; Port Natal. 



