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SECOND YABKAND MISSION. 
its apex obliquely truncate; the coxse greatly enlarged; wings dark blackish-brown, with a 
purple gloss. Abdomen smooth and shining. Eemale, length 10 lines. 
Sah. —^Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan. Taken in April. 
The I^ompilid(B 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. 
^^imWj—SFEEGIDM. 
43. Ammophila spinipes. 
Eemina.— A. nigra^ alia ftdm-hyalinis, metatliorace rugoso, abdomine antice rnfo. 
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; wingsfulvo-hyaline, the apical margins with a slight fuscous cloud; 
the nervures and stigma ferruginous; the tegulse rufo-piceous; the tibiae and tarsi thickly 
spinose, the claw^s 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. 
Hab. —Dras, 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 foin have been brought from Australia. 
44. Laeeada atjutjlenta. 
Sphex aurnlentaj Fabr., Ent. Syst., ii, 313, $. 
Bompilus auratus, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Supp., 350. 
Liris aurata, Fabr., Syst. Piez., 338. 
„ „ Dahlb., Hym. Europ., i, 135. 
Tachytes opulenta, St. Farg., Hym., iii, 346. 
JOyrops auratus, Giier., Icon. Reg. Anim., iii, 440. 
Larrada aurulenia, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins., pt. iv; Sphegidse, LarridsB and Crabronidas, p. 376. 
Hab. —Yangihissar, 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, New 
Guinea and Australia; species also occur in Africa; others are found both in North and 
South America. 
