210 HTMENOPTEEA. 



60. Pompilus flavopictUS. (Tab. XI. figg. 27, head; 27a, wing.) 

 Pompilus flavopictus, Smith, Journ. Ent. i. p. 396 l ; Descr. of New Species of Hymen, p. 156 

 (1879) 2 ; Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 97 3 ; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 370 4 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 3 , Orizaba (Sumichrast 4 ), Xucumanatlan in Guerrero 7000 feet, 

 Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), North Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemala, Las Mercedes 

 3000 feet, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chon tales (Belt) ; Costa Rica, 

 Cache 2 (Bogers) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



A common and, as regards the amount of black on the body, antennae, and legs, 

 variable species. The eyes distinctly converge at the top ; the hinder ocelli are 

 separated from each other by about the same distance they are from the eyes ; the 

 clypeus is very slightly incurved at the apex, the sides rounded. The prothorax is as 

 long as the head, the apex rounded ; the median segment with a gradually rounded 

 slope to the apex. The abdomen is a little longer than the head and thorax united ; 

 the apex with some long hairs. The legs are longish ; the spines long, slender, 

 and numerous ; the long spur of the hind tibiae reaching beyond the middle of the 

 metatarsus. The anal nervure in the hind wings is received beyond the cubital 

 nervure ; in the fore wings the basal nervure is interstitial. 



The male has the apex of the clypeus transverse and the sides obliquely truncate. 



Smith 2 describes this species as new under the same name he used previously \ his 

 original type being from Mexico. 



v 61. Pompilus pygidialis. 



Pompilus pygidialis, Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxvi. p. 334 \ 



Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca (Bilimek 1 ); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). — South 

 America, Buenos Ayres * ; Antilles, Cuba 1 . 



This species is remarkable for having the fore claws bifid, while the four others are 

 only toothed. The eyes at the top, too, approach nearer than in any of the other 

 species of the genus. 



\j 62. Pompilus virulentus. 



Pompilus virulentus, Smith, Descr. of New Species of Hymen, p. 155 (1879) \ 



Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); Costa Eica, Irazu 6000 to 7000 

 feet 1 (Bogers). 



Eyes very slightly converging at the top, hardly reaching to the base of the 

 mandibles ; the hinder ocelli separated from each other by about the same distance 

 they are from the eyes ; the clypeus and cheeks with a white pubescence, the vertex 

 with a few hairs ; there is a short indistinct furrow on the front. The prothorax is as 

 long as the head ; an indistinct furrow on the pronotum and a large oblong hollow in 



