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 fiice 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. Ab<lomen : the second joint of the ])etiole, 

 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 inters])ersed with very fine ones. The pro- 

 thorax transversely rugose anteriorly and punctured posteriorly, 

 and having an alibreviated impressed line at its hinder mar- 

 gin; ihe mesothorax has a longitudinal central impressed line, 

 and is strongly ])uuctured, the punctures becoming confluent, 

 and forming irregular stria; at the sides ; the scutelium 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 SJ-IO 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. Ilong Kong; North China (Shanghai). 



This is probably the male of A. similUma. 



