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the third joint longer than the fourth ; the apex of the apical ventral segment with a 

 smooth, shining, triangular depression. 

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43. Pompilus gloriosus. 



Pompilus gloriosus, Cresson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 368 (1869) \ 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sumichrast l ) ; Guatemala, Chiacam in Vera Paz ( Champion) ; 

 Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 



The male has the antennae as long as the head, thorax, and half of the abdomen 

 united, slender, curled at the tip, the third joint longer than the fourth ; the eyes 

 converging a little at the top ; the hinder ocelli separated from the eyes by a greater 

 distance than they are from each other ; the clypeus rounded at the apex ; the front, 

 and also the hinder, claws bifid ; the long spur of the hind tibiae not reaching the 

 middle of the metatarsus ; the apex of the abdomen with some long black hairs. 



The basal and anal nervures interstitial. (Species 44-46.) 



44. Pompilus confusaneus. 



Pompilus confusaneus, Cresson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 369 (1869) \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sumichrast x ). 



* 45. Pompilus connexus. 



Pompilus connexus, Cresson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 369 (1869) \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sumichrast x ). 



v 46. Pompilus chiriquensis. (Tab. XI. fig. 22, wing.) 



Niger, laete argenteo-pilosus ; alis flavis, fusco-bifasciatis. $ . 

 Long. 29 millim. 



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



Head opaque, finely rugose, sparsely covered with an obscure rufous pubescence, 

 slightly convex behind ; eyes parallel ; the ocelli closely set together, hardly forming a 

 triangle, the hinder ones separated from each other by a less distance than they are 

 from the eyes ; vertex with an indistinct furrow ; clypeus rounded and rufous at the 

 apex, finely, rugosely punctured. Antennae short, about as long as the head and 

 thorax united. Thorax opaque, alutaceous, the pronotum and mesonotum with an 

 obscure rufous pubescence ; there is a thick patch of golden pubescence on either side 

 of the scutellum, and there is a broad band of similar pubescence down the median 

 segment ; the pleurae have silvery pubescence. Pronotum shorter than the head, the 

 sides rounded ; a furrow down the middle, the apex concave, but rather sharply pointed 

 in the centre. Scutellum concave, not much narrowed towards the apex. Median 



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