144 HYMENOPTERA. 



126. POMPILUS COMPTUS. 



Pompilus comptuSj St. Farg. Hym. iii. 425. 13. 

 Hab. India. 



127. Pompilus fulvipennis. B.M. 



Sphex fulvipennis, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii. 218. 84. 

 Pompilus fulvipennis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 198. 57. 

 Hemipepsis fulvipennis, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 462. 2. 



Hab. India. 



128. Pompilus fenestratus. B.M. 



Female. Length 3^-4 lines. — Head and thorax black ; the 

 face densely clothed with fine silvery pile ; the mandibles rufo- 

 piceous, the palpi testaceous. Thorax : the sides, beneath, and 

 the metathorax entirely covered with bright silvery pile ; wings 

 dark fuscous, their base hyaline ; the second submarginal cell 

 wider than the third, which is narrowed towards the marginal ; 

 the legs spinose. Abdomen : the three basal segments and the 

 base of the fourth ferruginous. 



Hab. India (Bengal). 



129. Pompilus honestus. B.M. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Black : head, thorax, and abdo- 

 raon densely clothed with bright golden pile ; the antennae and 

 legs ferruginous ; the coxse black and covered with golden pile ; 

 legs without spines, or merely a few very short fine ones on the 

 tarsal joints ; wings yellow, subhyaline, their nervures and the 

 tegulse ferruginous ; the metathorax rounded behind and trans- 

 versely striated ; the apex of the anterior wings with a dark 

 fuscous cloud extending to the base of the third submarginal 

 cell. Abdomen subpetiolate. 



Hab. East India. 



130. Pompilus Madraspatanus. B.M. 



Female. Length 12 lines. — Head and thorax black, the ab- 

 domen deep blue, with tints of green ; the head and thorax 

 densely clothed with a short velvety black pubescence ; wings 

 deep fuscous ; the second submarginal cell oblong, receiving the 

 first recurrent nervure near its apex ; the metathorax has on 

 each sidC;, at its base, a large obtuse tubercle, its disk transversely 

 rugose, and having a central longitudinal impressed line; the 

 legs thickly spinose, the spines short and acute. Abdomen : 



