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HYMENOPTERA. 



63. POMPILUS AMBIGUUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 8^ lines. — Black : antennae, labnim, palpi, 

 and mandibles in the middle ferruginous ; the cheeks and margin 

 of the vertex thinly covered with long black pubescence ; the 

 thorax has also a scattered long black pubescence, the meta- 

 thorax transversely rugose ; the wings reddish-yellow, their ex- 

 treme base black ; the first recurrent nervure received near the 

 apex of the second submarginal cell ; a fuscous transverse stripe 

 at the apex of the anterior pair, leaving the tip pale ; the tibiae, 

 tarsi and knees ferruginous, the two former thickly spinose ex- 

 teriorly ; the abdomen has an obscure sericeous pilosity, its ex- 

 treme apex rufo-testaceous. 



Hab. Polish Ukraine. 



64. POMPILUS SESQUIALTERUS. 



Pompilus sesquialterus, Fisch. de Wald. Mag. Zool. 1843, t. 122. 

 f. 3. 



Hab. Russia (Lower Volga). 



65. Pompilus alienus. 



Pompilus ahenus, Fisch. de Wald. Mag. Zool. {Guer.) 1843. 

 Hab. Russia. * 



66. Pompilus egregius. 



Cahcurgus egregius, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 402. 5 (P. variabilis, 

 var. ?). 



Hab. Corsica. 



67. Pompilus dichrous. 



Pompilus dichrous, BrulU, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. iii. .92. 58. 

 Hab. Canary Islands ; Sicily. (Coll. F. Smith.; 



68. Pompilus violaceipennis. 



Pompilus violaceipennis, Brulle, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. iii. .92. 59. 

 Hab. Canary Islands. 



69. Pompilus brunneus. 



Pompilus brunneus, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. iv. no. 2. t. 38. f. 2. 

 Hab. Syria. 



