HYMENOPTERA. 135 



81. POMPILUS ERRANS. B.M. 



Female. Length 11-15 lines. — Chestnut-brown: the tips of 

 the mandibles and a transverse line on the vertex enclosing the 

 stemmata black ; the head and thorax beneath, the coxae, tro- 

 chanters, and basal half of the femora, fuscous or black ; the 

 metathorax black, rounded behind, transversely striated and 

 having a central longitudinal impressed line ; wings yellow, the 

 nervm'es pale ferruginous, the base of the wings fusco-ferru- 

 ginous, the apical margins having a dark fuscous stripe ; the 

 first recurrent nervure received by the second submarginal cell 

 very near its apex, but not uniting with the transverse nervure. 

 Abdomen punctured, the apical margins of the segments having 

 fuscous fascice, which are continuous and broadest on the venter. 



Male. Length 10 lines. — Very closely resembling the female, 

 but the transverse stripe on the vertex is broader and emits a 

 broad stain, which terminates at the insertion of the antennae ; 

 the mesothorax is fuscous anteriorly and at the sides, the basal 

 and two or three of the apical segments of the abdomen also 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Algeria; Albania. 



82. POMPILUS FRATERNUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. — Head, antennae, pro- and meso- 

 thorax, scutellum and post-scutellum, ferruginous; the meta- 

 thorax, thorax beneath, coxae, trochanters and base of the femora, 

 black; the apical joints of the tarsi fuscous; metathorax rounded 

 behind and transversely strongly strigose, having a central lon- 

 gitudinal impressed line ; wings yellow, nervures pale ferruginous, 

 the apical margins of the wings have a dark fuscous stripe ; the 

 second submarginal cell receiving the first recurrent nervure a 

 little beyond the middle. Abdomen impunctate, fuscous or 

 black ; the second segment ferruginous, the first having usually 

 a central ferruginous spot. 



Hab. Tunis. 



This species closely resembles P. erraticus, but the neuration 

 of the wings is diff^erent, and the abdomen is not punctured ; the 

 second submarginal cell is obliquely square. 



83. POMPILUS OCHROCERUS. 



Entypus ochrocerus, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 35. 19. 

 Hab. Algeria. 



