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middle ; scutellum closely, finely, longitudinally striated, the base in the 
centre smooth and shining ; there is a smooth furrow down the middle, 
not extending to the base and apex ; post-scutellum stoutly striated ; 
pleurae sparsely punctured, the puncturation hid by the dense white pile. 
Male. 
Length, 24 mm. 
Pretoria. January. 
Eyes converging below ; there is no malar space ; clypeus distinctly 
longer than wide ; the part below the eyes longer than the part above 
their bottom ; the apex narrowed, depressed, and with a shallow incision 
at the end ; in the centre is a longitudinal keel, commencing shortly above 
the middle and reaching to near the top of the apical fourth ; the third 
antennal joint is fully one-fourth longer than the fourth, slightly shorter 
than the following two united ; there is no blue tint on the apical abdom- 
inal segments. 
Allied to A. nasuta Lep., from Oran., it having the longish clypeus 
of that species. 
Ammophila (Psammophila) tydei Guil. 
Le Guillon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., X, 319 ; Kohl, Ann. Hof. Mus., XXI, 
284 ; Cameron, Sjostedts, Zool. Exped. n. d. Kilimand. u. Meru., Hym., 
268. 
Ammophila argentata Lep. — Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., iii, 368 ; Andre, 
Spec. Hym. Eur., iii, 85. 
Psammophila madeirae Dahlb. — Hym. Eur., i, 21 and 432. 
Ammophila capensis Lep. — Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., iii, 368. 
Ammophila Jclugii. — Andre, l.c. 85. 
Middelburg Town. December. Pietersburg. December. 
SCELIPHRON KlUG (PELOPOEUS AUCT.). 
Sceliphron spirifex Lin l 
Pelopoeus spirifex Smith. — Cat. Hym. Ins., IV, 227 ; Gribodo, Ann. 
d. Mus. Civic, di Genova, xvi, 224, 1 ; l.c . (2) i, 298 ; R. Accd. d. Scien. 
di Bologna, 1894, 136 ; Magretti, Ann. d. Mus. Civ. di Storia Nat. di 
Genova, i, 577. 
Sceliphron spirifex Bingham. — Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), X, 217 ; 
Kohl, Denk. d. Mathe.-Natur. Klasse Kais. Akad. d. Wissen, 1906, 21. 
Sceliphron aegyptium Kirby. — Forbes Natur. Hist, of Sokotra and Abd- 
el- Kuri, 240. 
I have seen an example of this from the Transvaal. 
Sceliphron spinolae Lep. 
Pelopoeus spinolae Lep. — Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., iii, 307 ; Gribodo, 
Ann. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genova, (2), i, 299. 
Pelopoelus spinolae , var. rufo-pictus Magretti. — Ann. Mus. Civ. St. 
Nat., Genova, (2a), i, 57. 
Sceliphron ■ spinolae Bingham. — Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), X, 217. 
Lemana. October. Water va\ No. 211, Zoutpansberg District. January. 
