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metathorax and of the prothorax maculated with patches of 

 golden pile; the wings dark fuscous; abdomen ferruginous, 

 covered with fine hoary pile. 



164. POMPILUS VARIUS. 



Pompilus varius, Fahr. Syst. Piez. p. 189. 7. 

 Hab. South America. 



165. Pompilus rusticus. 



Pompilus rusticus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 199. 59. 

 Hab. South America, 



166. Pompilus pulvillatus. 



Female. Length 6| hues.— Black, with a fine thin sericeous 

 pile, which is most dense on the metathorax, coxse, and sides of 

 the thorax, and has a pale golden brilliancy; it is very dense on 

 the face and silvery-bright ; the clypeus marginate, and having 

 a transverse row of punctures; the mandibles dark rufo-piceous 

 towards their apex, the palpi fuscous ; the antennae slender ; the 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae serrate exteriorly ; the tarsi 

 have the pulvillus very large and much produced ; wings hyaline, 

 the superior pair having a narrow dark fascia crossing at the base 

 of the first and second discoidal cells, and a much broader one 

 towards their apex enclosmg the second and third submarginal 

 cells ; the metathorax rounded. Abdomen subpetiolate. 



Hab. South America. (Coll. W.W. Saunders, Esq.) 



167. Pompilus militaris. 



Pompilus militaris, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 199. 62. 

 Hab. South America. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



168. Pompilus femoratus. 



Pompilus femoratus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 190. 13. 

 Hab. South America. 



169. Pompilus capitatus. 



Pompilus capitatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 188. 5. 

 Pompilus seniUs, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 189. 6. var. ? 



Hab. South America. 



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