AMMOPHILA SABULOSA. 81 



1. AmmopMla sabulosa. 



A. nigra, hirta ; seginento secundo tertioque ferrugineis, petiolo 

 biarticulato. 



Sphex sabulosa, Linn. Faun. Suec. 411. 1648; Syst. Nat. i. 941. 1 $ . 



Scop. Im. Cam. 770. fig. 770. 



Frisch, Ins. ii. 1. 1. f. 6, 7, 8. 



DeGeer, Ins. ii. 822. 5. t. 28. f. 7. 



Fabr. Syst. Ent. 346. 1. 



Schrank, Ins. Austr. 377. 768. 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 60. 808. 



Christ. Hym. 311. t. 31. f. 2. 



Panz. Faun, Germ. 65. 12. 



Ratz. For st. Ins. Bd. iii. 34. 1. 1. 4. f. 10 ? . 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 435. 1. 



Amraophila vulgaris, Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. 195. 1. 

 Ammophila sabulosa, Latr. Nouv. Diet. ed. 2. i. 450. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. \. 85. 2. 



Brulle, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. iii. 61. 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 75. 1. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 9. 1 0. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 376. 17. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 69. 1. 

 Ammophila pulvillata, Sow. Brit. Miscett. i. 33. t. 33. f. 1 $ . 



Female. Length 10-11 lines. Black; the head with scattered 

 punctures ; the clypeus with long fuscous pubescence ; a little 

 is also scattered on the vertex and cheeks. Thorax : the disk 

 shining, with scattered punctures ; the mesothorax with a 

 deeply impressed central longitudinal line; the metathorax 

 opake, finely granulated, the sides rather coarsely wrinkled ; 

 the wings subhyaline, the nervures piceous, the apical margins 

 clouded; the tubercles, an ovate spot beneath the wings, and 

 another on each side of the insertion of the abdomen, covered 

 with silvery pubescence ; the coxa and under side of the meso- 

 thorax covered with a fine sericeous pile ; the anterior tarsi 

 strongly ciliated, the intermediate and posterior tibiae spinose. 

 Abdomen clavate ; the second joint of the petiole, except its 

 base, the second segment and base of the third, ferruginous ; 

 the apical segments have a slight blue tinge ; the apex pu- 

 bescent. 



The Male differs in being a little smaller, more slender and more 

 pubescent ; the face with a silvery pile ; the legs less spinose ; 

 and the abdomen with a longitudinal black stripe along the top 

 of the second joint of the petiole, and usually continuing along 

 the second segment, but sometimes obsolete. 



