HYMENOPTERA. 



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214. POMPILUS TROPICUS. B.M. 



Sphex tropica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 945. 27. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 250. 23. 

 Pompilus tropicus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 250. 23 ; Syst. 

 Piez. p. 194. 33. 



St. Farg. ^ Serv. Ency. MeVi. x. 181. 11. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. p. 62. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 434. 28. 



Hab. N. America; St. John's Bluff; East Florida. 



215. Pompilus Australis. 



Pompilus Australis, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. pt. 2. p. 260. 

 Hab. New Holland; Port Jackson. 



216. Pompilus aurifrons. B.M. 



Female. Length 12 lines. — Black: the face covered with 

 fine short golden pubescence ; the antennae, clypeus, palpi and 

 mandibles reddish-yellow, the tips of the femora, tibiae, tarsi and 

 wings of the same colom- ; the first recurrent nervure entering 

 the second submarginal cell at one-third from its apex ; the apical 

 margins of the wings have a narrow fuscous border ; the thorax 

 clothed above with short black velvety pubescence ; metathorax 

 short, truncate, and transversely rugose- striate, the striation 

 strongest at the sides ; the posterior tibiae strongly serrated ex- 

 teriorly, the anterior pairs spinose. Abdomen : the first seg- 

 ment and basal half of the second black, with very short black 

 pubescence, the apical half of the second and the whole of the 

 following segments clothed with short golden pubescence ; be- 

 neath smooth and shining, the margins of the segments rufo- 

 piceous. 



Hab. Australia. 



217. Pompilus antennalis. B.M. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Black : the antennae orange-yellow 

 above, fuscous beneath, the scape black ; a narrow cream-coloured 

 line at the inner orbits of the eyes, not extending to their vertex ; 

 the head has a thinly scattered griseous pubescence intermixed 

 with fuscous on the vertex. Thorax : beneath, the sides, as well 

 as the legs have a short hoary pile ; the tibiae have the spurs at 

 their apex white ; wings fuscous, irregularly clouded, their apical 

 margins having a dark border ; the metathorax short, truncate 



