162 HYMENOPTERA. 



behind. Abdomen sessile, the apical margins of the segments 

 having a narrow fascia of fine white pubescence. 



Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 



218. POMPILUS CARBONARIUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Black, smooth, and impunctate ; 

 the abdomen glossy black ; the face covered with short silvery 

 pubescence ; the legs and sides of the thorax thinly covered with 

 hoary pile ; the metathorax rounded ; wings fusco-hyaline, the 

 nervures black, the apical segment slightly roughened and 

 sprinkled with long hairs, the extreme apex rufo-piceous. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



219. POMPILUS CINEREUS. B.M. 



Sphex cinerea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 213. 61. 

 Pompilus cinereus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 250. 22 ; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 194. 31. 



Hab. New Holland. 



220. Pompilus collaris. B.M. 



Sphex collaris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 208. 40; Mus. Dom. Banks. 

 Pompilus collaris, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 188. 2. 



Hab. New Holland. 



221. Pompilus erythrostethus. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines. — The head, legs and abdomen 

 black, the latter very smooth and shining ; the thorax blood-red, 

 finely shagreened, the metathorax rounded and more coarsely 

 rugose; the anterior tibiae ferruginous at the base, the tarsi 

 having exteriorly a row of long cilia; the intermediate and pos- 

 terior tibiae and tarsi thickly spinose ; wings hyaline, having a 

 transverse fuscous fascia on the anterior wings, crossing at the 

 base of the first and second discoidal cells, enclosing the trans- 

 verso-medial nervure ; fuscous beyond the first submarginal cell ; 

 the apex of the posterior wings fuscous ; the basal margins of 

 the abdominal segments covered with fine silvery pile. 



Hab. New Holland. 



