188 HYMENOPTERA. 



narrowed in the centre ; the fourth segment with a narrow white band at the apex ; 

 the pygidium densely covered with a white pubescence. Legs pruinose, plumbeous ; the 

 spurs short, thick ; the long spur of the hind tibiae does not reach the middle of the 

 metatarsus. The antennae shorter than the thorax; the third joint a little longer than 

 the fourth. Wings dark fuscous, a greyish cloud before the basal nervure, and a 

 larger one at the radial cellule, the apex also being lighter ; basal nervure interstitial. 



J 8. Pompilus pictus. 



Pompilus pictus, Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxvi. p. 338, t. 10. fig. 10, t. 11. fig. 13 1 . 

 Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca (Bilimek x ). 



-i 9. Pompilus bugabensis. 



Niger, argenteo-pilosus, pronoto aureo hirto, abdomine albo plagiato ; alis lacteis, fusco bifasciatis. 

 Long. 12-14 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 



Head short, broad, behind almost transverse, shining, finely punctured; a thick 

 band of golden pubescence behind the ocelli; the cheeks, face, and clypeus with 

 silvery pubescence ; the eyes curved above, a little converging below ; the ocelli in a 

 large triangle, the hinder ones separated from each other by a distinctly greater distance 

 than they are from the eyes ; clypeus projecting, sharply narrowed from the base, the 

 apex almost transverse. Antennae shorter than the thorax; the third and fourth joints 

 subequal. Pronotum quadrate, fully one half longer than the head, densely covered 

 with golden pubescence. Mesonotum opaque, finely rugose in front; the pleura 

 densely covered with silvery pubescence, except below the tegulae ; the scutellum con- 

 vex, slightly narrowed towards the apex. The median segment densely covered with 

 silvery pubescence, the apical half oblique. Abdomen longer than the head and thorax 

 united, the apex acuminate, shining, laterally pruinose ; the pygidium not clearly 

 defined, covered with a whitish pubescence. Legs densely pruinose, shortish, the 

 spines short and thick ; the long spur of the hind tibiae not reaching to the middle of 

 the metatarsus. Wings short ; the second cubital cellule quadrate, longer than the 

 third, which converges at the top, and receives the recurrent nervure shortly before the 

 middle ; the first recurrent nervure also received before the middle ; the basal nervure 

 interstitial ; the anal nervure in hind wings received before the cubital nervure. 



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To this section probably belong : — 



10. Pompilus variegatus. 



Ferreola variegata, Smith, Journ. Eut. i. p. 398 \ 

 Hab. Mexico 1 (Mus. Brit.). 



