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SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 
its apex obliquely truncate ; the coxae greatly enlarged ; wings dark blackish-brown, with a 
purple gloss. Abdomen smooth and shining. Female, length 10 lines. 
Sab. — Yangiliissar, Eastern Turkestan. Taken in April. 
The Ponipilidce are found in all parts of the globe ; little short of five hundred species 
belonging to the various genera of which the family is composed have been enumerated. 
Family — SPHEGIDM. 
43. Ammophila spinipes. 
Femina. — A. nigra, alis fulvo-hyalmis, meiathorace rugoso, abdomme antice rufo. 
Black ; the head wider than the thorax, shining and strongly punctured ; the mandibles 
with a ferruginous spot in the middle, the palpi rufo-piceous. Thorax ; the pro and meso- 
thorax shining and strongly punctured, as well as the scutellum ; the mesothorax with a deeply 
impressed line in the middle anteriorly, extending to the middle of the disk ; the metathorax 
opaque and rugulose ; wings fulvo-hyaline, the apical margins with a slight fuscous cloud ; 
the nervures and stigma ferruginous ; the teguhe rufo-piceous ; the tibia? and tarsi thickly 
spinose, the claws of the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen ; the first, second, third and base of the 
fourth segment of the abdomen ferruginous; the petiole not quite as long as the first 
segment. Eemale, length 8 lines. 
II ab . — Dr as, Kargil, and Leh, in Ladak. Taken in August and September. 
This genus is one of universal distribution ; about eighty species are described ; some 
twenty species are found in Europe, and about the same number are at present known from 
Africa ; twelve are described from India ; North and South America both possess numerous 
species, but only three or four have been brought from Australia. 
Family — LI BBIDJE. 
44. Larrada aurttlenta. 
Sphex aurnlenia, Fabr., Fnt. Syst., ii, 213, 5 . 
Fompilns auratus, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Supp., 250. 
Li fin aurata, Fabr., Syst. Piez., 228. 
„ „ Dablb., Hym. Europ., i, 135. 
Tachytes opulenta, St. Farg., Hym., iii, 246. 
Lyrops auratus, Guer., Icon. Reg. Anim., iii, 440. 
Larrada aurulenta, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., pt. iv ; Sphegidse, Lari'idse and Crabronidm, p. 27 6. 
Sab. — Yangiliissar, in Eastern Turkestan; also Madras, Bombay (India); China; 
Philippines; Sumatra; Borneo; Java; Celebes; Bachian ; Bouru. 
This genus is widely distributed ; Europe has five species at present known ; others 
are found in India, China, Borneo, in most of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, N ( 'V 
Guinea and Australia ; species also occur in Africa ; others are found both in N orth and 
South America. 
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