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segments of the abdomen clothed with white pubescence, the 

 apical segments blue. 



Hab. Chih. 



Genus 23. AMMOBATES. 

 Amraobates, Latr. Gen. Cr. Ins. iv. 169. 



1. Ammobates rufi-ventris. 



Ammobates rufi-ventris, Latr. Gen. Cr. Ins. iv. 169. 

 St.Farg. c^ Serv. Ency. Meth. x. 17. 1. 

 St. Fury. Hym. ii. 510. 1. 

 Blanch. Hist. Nat. des Ins. iii. 412. 



Hab. Portugal. 



2. Ammobates bicolor. B.M. 



Ammobates bicolor, St. Farg. ^ Serv. Ency. Meth. x. 17- 2. 

 St.Farg. Hym. ii. 511. 2. 



This species in all probability does not belong to the genus ; 

 the maxillary paljji have only four joints, in the generic characters 

 of Latreille the number given is six ; — not having a specimen of 

 the type to examine, the present species is retained in the genus. 



3. Ammobates muticus. 



Ammobates muticus. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (1843) i. 141.29. 

 Hab. Spain. 



4. Ammobates variegatus. 



Female. Length 32- lines. — Head ferruginous, the vertex and 

 face as low as the insertion of the antenna? fuscous, antenna- 

 ferruginous, the flagellum fuscous above. Thorax ferruginous, 

 the collar, metathorax, and a stain down the middle of the disk 

 fuscous ; the wings fusco-hyaline, their apical margins having a 

 dark cloud, the superior wings varied with hyaline spaces beyond 

 the enclosed cells, the tegulse and extreme base of the wings 

 ferruginous ; the disk covered with large dispersed punctures, 

 and having a deej) impressed line down the centre which also 

 passes over the scutellum, which is consequently bituberculate ; 

 the legs red, the ])ostcrior femora having a fuscous stain above. 

 Abdomen ferruginous, the three apical segments sub-fuscous ; a 

 short silvery pubescence clothes the face and metathorax, and is 

 more thinly scattered on tiie legs and abdomen. 



Hab. Greece (Thessaly). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



