COLLECTED AT CELEBES, 11 



Female. Length 14 lines. Black and shining; head red above the 

 insertion of the antennae, very smooth and glossy, with a few punctures 

 at the sides of and in front of the ocelli ; antennae black ; the man- 

 dibles with a fringe of ferruginous hairs on their inferior margin. 

 Thorax : smooth on the disk, which has a few scattered punctures at 

 the sides j the scutellum punctured and shining ; the thorax in front 

 and the metathorax with black pubescence, the latter widely emar- 

 ginate at the verge of the truncation, the lateral angles produced ; 

 wings black with a bright violet iridescence. Abdomen punctured, 

 with the middle of the second, third, and fourth segments smooth and 

 shining in the middle ; the first segment with a smooth shining carina 

 at its base slightly produced forwards, the abdomen with a slight 

 metallic lustre. The wings with one marginal and three submarginal 

 cells, and one recurrent nervure. 



Male. Smaller than the female, and differs in having the clypeus red 

 and the red colour running down behind the eyes, the antennae 

 longer, and the abdomen with a bright metallic iridescence. 



Hah. Celebes. 



9. ScoLiA MiNUTA. S. nigra, abdominc iridcscente, scgmcntorum mar- 

 ginibus apicalibus flavo fasciatis, alis subhyalinis iridescentibus. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Head and thorax black and shining, with scat- 

 tered pale pubescence ; the mandibles and clypeus yellow, the latter 

 with an anchor-shaped black spot. Thorax : the posterior margin of 

 the prothorax and the anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi yellow ; 

 a minute yellow spot on the postscutellum yellow; the wings sub- 

 hyaline, the nervures fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen : the apical mar- 

 gins of the segments with a narrow yellow border, the second and 

 third uniting with a lateral spot ; the sixth segment immaculate ; the 

 apex pale testaceous. 



Hob. Celebes. 



Tarn. POMPILID^, Leach. 



\. Pompilus analis. Fair. Syst. Piez. p. 209. 42. 

 Hab. India, Java, Ceylon, Celebes. 



2. Pompilus saltitans. P. niger, pedibus subferrugineis, protho- 

 racis margine postica flava; alis flavo-hyalinis, apice fuscis, abdomine 

 pilis cinereis fasciato. 



Female. Length 6 lines. Black and thinly covered with ashy pile. 

 The scape, labrum, mandibles and palpi ferruginous; the clypeus 

 widely emarginate anteriorly. The posterior margin of the prothorax 

 angular and with a yellow border ; the scutellum prominent, covered 

 on each side with a dense silvery-white pile, the postscutellum with 

 two spots of the same; the wings flavo-hyaline, their apex with a 

 broad dark-fuscous border, the nervures ferruginous, the tegulae yellow ; 

 the posterior wings palest ; legs pale ferruginous, the coxae black with 



