74 PLATE CCCCLXVII1 



FIG. II. 

 AMMOPHILA ARENARIA. 



LONG WINGED SAND-WASP, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Snout conic, inflected, concealing a bifid retractile tubular tongue : 

 jaws forcipated, and three toothed at the tip : antenna? filiform in each 

 fex, and confifting of about fourteen joints : eyes oval : wings fiat : 

 fling 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. 



Sphex Arenaiua : hirta nigra abdominis petiolo uniarticulato : feg- 

 mento fecundo tertioque rufis, alis longiludine cor" 

 poris. Fabr. Ent. Syft. T. 2. p. 199- n. 2. Linn, 

 Tranf. 4. p. 206. 



Diftinguifhed from Sphex fabulofa to which it feeins 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 two 

 joints in the above mentioned fpecies. Like that Infect Ammophila 

 arenaria, inhabits fandy places, and appears moft lively in the fun 

 fhine.— The figure in the lower part of the annexed plate reprefents 

 this iufeft in its natural fize, 



LINNjEAN 



