ve PLATE CCCCLXVIV. 
FIG: i1, 
AMMOPHILA ARENARIA, 
LONG WINGED SAND-WASP. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Snout conic, inflected, concealing a bifid ‘retraétile tubular tongue ; 
jaws forcipated, and three toothed at the tip : antenne filiform in each 
fex, and confifting of about fourteen joints: eyes oval; wings flat; 
_ {ting pungent and concealed in the abdomen. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Black; petiole of a fingle articulation, and with the firft three 
joints rufous : wings length of the body. 
Spuex ARENARIA: hirta nigra abdomiis petiolo tniarticulato : feg- 
mento fecundo tertioque rufis, alis longitude cor- 
poris. Fabr. Ent, Syfit. T. 2. p.199.2".2. Linn, 
Lranf. 4. p. 206, ‘ 
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Diftinguifhed from Sphex fabulofa to which it feems at firft glance 
nearly allied by the fhortnefs of the petiole which connects the body 
to the thorax, that part being remarkably long, and confifting of twa 
joits in the above mentioned fpecies. Like that Infect Ammophila 
arenaria, inhabits fandy places, and appears moft lively im the fun 
fhine.—The figure in the lower part of the annexed plate reprefents 
- this infect in its natural fize. 
LINNEAN 
