164 HYMENOPTERA. 



226. POMPILUS LUNATUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 8i lines. — Bkck, adorned with a change- 

 able silvery pile, very dense on the body and legs beneath, also 

 on the elypeus, pro- and meta-thorax, as well as on the apical 

 margins of the segments of the abdomen laterally ; the head of 

 the same width as the thorax, the vertex transverse-quadrate. 

 Thorax oblong, slightly rounded at the collar, and abruptly trun- 

 cate posteriorly ; the truncation, as well as the entire thorax 

 above, smooth ; the metathorax slightly roughened at the margin 

 of the truncation ; wings fuscous, the anterior pair having a 

 slightly irregular half-moon-shaped yellow spot at their apex, 

 nearly occupying their entire width ; at the base of the wings 

 are a few narrow hyaline streaks. Abdomen sessile, elongate- 

 ovate, pointed at the apex ; the legs shorter and stouter than is 

 usual in this genus, and thickly set with stout spines exteriorly. 



Hab. New Holland (Sydney). 



227. POMPILUS MORIO. B.M. 



Sphex morio, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 208.39 ; Syst. Piez. p. 187- 1, 

 Sf Mus. Dom. Banks. 



Hab. New Holland. 



228. POMPILUS MONACHUS. B.M. 



Pompilus monachus. White, ZooL Erebus and Terror, Faun. 

 New Zeal. 



Female Length 6^-9 lines. — Jet-black : shining, head and 

 thorax thinly scattered over with black pubescence ; wings 

 smoky-hyaline, splendidly iridescent, the third submarginal cell 

 elongate, widest at its apex, twice the width of the second cell. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



229. Pompilus nubilipennis. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black : the face below the inser- 

 tion of the antennae covered with fine short cinereous pubes- 

 cence ; the sides of the thorax and the entire insect beneath, the 

 legs and sides of the metathorax, covered with fine cinereous 

 pile ; the metathorax rounded behind, and having a longitudinal 

 impressed • line in the middle ; wings subhyaline, irregularly 

 clouded with fuscous, leaving a variety of subhyaline spaces ; 

 the intermediate and posterior tibiae strongly serrated exte- 

 riorly, the calcaria pale testaceous. Abdomen subsessile, the 



