COLLECTED AT BACHIAN, KAISAA, ETC. 119 



Female. Length 7 lines. Jet-black and shining ; the head strongly 

 punctured; the face and cheek with a thin glittering silvery-white 

 pubescence, the scape with a floccus of the same colour at the apex 

 beneath ; the mandibles dark ferruginous, with their apex black. The 

 pro- and mesothorax strongly punctured; the metathorax smooth and 

 shining, with three longitudinal carinte, all of which extend from the 

 base to the verge of the truncation ; the latter opake ; the wings fusco- 

 hyaline, with the nervures and stigma black. Abdomen ; sparingly 

 and delicately punctured, rather more strongly so towards the apex ; 

 the apical segment rugose, with the apical margin pale testaceous. 



Hub. Bachian. 



Fam. POMPILIDtE, Leach. 

 Gren, PoMPiLUS, Fair. 



1 . Porapilus analis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 111.$. 

 Hab. Bachian ; India ; Java ; Ceylon ; Celebes. 



2. Pompilus Peleterii, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 257 ; Atlas Ins. no. 9, 

 f. 2. ? . 



Hah. Amboyna. 



3. Pompilus depredator. P. niger, vertice, tibiis tarsisque ferru- 

 gineis, alis flavo-hyalinis ; abdominis segmento secundo et tertio fasciis 

 basalibus ferrugineis. 



Female. Length 8i lines. Black, the head above the insertion of the 

 antennae, the scape and two basal joints of the antennae, the middle 

 of the mandibles, and the palpi ferruginous; the vertex black. 

 Thorax covered with very short black pubescence ; the wings yellow, 

 orange towards their base, the apical margins of the superior pair 

 with a narrow fuscous border; the tibiae, tarsi, and tips of the 

 femora, ferruginous. Abdomen : the basal margins of the second 

 and third segments, and a longitudinal stripe on the apical segment, 

 ferruginous. 



Male. Length 65 lines. Very closely resembles the female, but has 

 the outer orbit of the eyes, the face and mandibles entirely yellow ; 

 the antenna; thicker with the joints sub-arcuate ; the scutellum and 

 postscutellum yellow ; the collar yellow ; the abdomen with an ad- 

 ditional fascia and a yellow spot on the basal segment. 



liab. Bachian. 



4. Pompilus fulgidipennis. P. caendeo-niger ; abdomine irides- 

 cente ; alis caeruleo violaceoque splendide micantibus. 



Female. Length 8} lines. Blue-black, very bright in certain lights ; 

 the abdomen with changeable violet tints ; the head with an impressed 

 line running fi-om the base of the clypeus to the anterior ocellus. The 

 prothorax subquadrate, about the same length as the metathorax ; the 

 latter truncate, or slightly hollowed out behind to the form of the base 



