Annals op the Transvaal Museum:. 
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Liris haemorrhoidalis F. 
Kohl, Verh., z-b., Ges. Wien., XXXIV, 256 ; Bingham, Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist., (7), X, 209 ; Stadelmann, D. Hymen. Ost. Afr., 44. 
Kranspoort. December. 
Ammophila Kirby. 
Ammophila ludovicus Sm. 
Cat. Hym. Ins., Brit. Mus., IV., 212, 29 ; Kohl, Ann. Hof. Mns. Wien., 
IX, 251, 260, pi. IX, f. 44, 65, and 66 ; Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(7), X, 218. • 
Kranspoort. December. One example of this well-marked large 
species. 
Ammophila ferrugineipes Lep. 
Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., iii, 383 ; Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., IV, 212 ; 
Gribodo, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, XXI, 297 ; Gerstaker, Peter’s Reise, 
481 ; Stadelmann, Die Hym. Ost. Afr., 45 ; Cameron, Sjostedts, Zool. 
Exp. d. Kilimand. ii. Meru., Hym., 268 ; Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
(7), X, 218. 
Waterval No. 211, Zoutpansberg District. December. 
Ammophila pulchricollis, sp. n. 
Black, densely covered with silvery pile ; the antennal scape, the 
second joint, clypeus, mandibles to near the teeth, malar space, pronotum, 
except for a narrow line behind the middle, propleurae, tubercles, and 
tegulae, red ; the legs and the basal three segments of the abdomen of a 
more ferruginous red ; the hind coxae, except above, narrowly at the 
apex ; their sides, except for a triangular space at the base and the apex 
narrowly ; a broad line on the hind femora, commencing near the base, 
where it extends all round, and extending above to the base of the apical 
fourth, black ; the hind tarsi of a darker red colour ; the base of the second 
abdominal segment and its apex more broadly, the fourth and following 
segments, except narrowly at the apex, and the fourth to sixth ventral, 
black ; wings hyaline, slightly tinged with fulvous ; the nervures black ; 
the second abscissa of the radius as long as the first and twice the length 
of the third ; the third transverse cubital nervure broadly, roundly curved 
in a semicircle ; the second is slightly, roundly curved, and slopes a little 
from the front ; the first is obliquely sloped and broadly, roundly curved ; 
the first recurrent nervure is received shortly before the middle ; the 
second at the base of the apical fourth; mesonotum irregularly, trans- 
versely striated, the scutellum more finely and closely longitudinally 
striated ; the metanotum irregularly, weakly striated laterally. Male. 
Length, 22 mm. 
Masemola. 
Eyes slightly converging above; apex of clypeus broadly rounded, 
depressed, almost furrowed ; the clypeus is short and broad ; pronotum 
as long as the mesonotum ; the basal third narrowed. 
