150 POMPILIDiE. 



b'. Abdomen entirely black. 



a'-. Head and thorax in front ferruginous 



yellow P. bracatus, p. 164. 



b^. Head and thorax black. 



o^. Antennaj and tarsi piceous brown .... P. dtedalus, p. 165. 

 b^. Antennae and tarsi black. 



a*. Median segment more or less stee'ply 

 sloped at apex, or truncate. 

 c^. Fore wing with 2nd and 3rd 



cubital cells equal P. canifrons, p. 165. 



6\ Fore wing with 2iid cubital cell [p. 166. 



wider than the 3rd P. simillimus, 



«'. Fore wing with 2nd cubital cell 



narrower than the 3rd P. ignobilis, p. 166. 



b*. Median segment with a gentle 

 rounded slope to the apex, not 

 truncate. 

 a'. Median segment smooth, not longi- 

 tudinally furrowed P. perplexus, p. ]67. 



b^. Median segment with a longitu- [p. 167. 



dinal medial furrow P. parthenope, 



E. Wings ferruginous yellow. 



''. The 2nd abdominal segment with an elongate [p. 167. 



ferruginous spot on each side at base P. bioculatus, 



b. The 2ud abdominal segment with a transverse [p. 168. 



fascia at base above P. unifnscintus, 



c. The 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments each 



with a transverse fascia at base above .... P. alicice, p. 168. 



A. Second ventral segment ivithout a transverse furroiv. 



292. Pompilus analis. 



Sphex analis, Fabr. JEnt. Si/st. ii, p. 209. 



Pompilus analis, Fabr. Si/st. Piez. p. 188 ; Smith, Cat. iii, p. 143 ; 

 Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 457. 



5 S . Head, thorax in front, and abdomen smooth and shining ; 

 median segment pruinose, opaque-looking, rounded posteriorly, 

 truncate at apex ; scutellum large and compressed at the sides ; 

 legs long, the tibise and tarsi Avith long stout spines. Black, the 

 wings hyaline, the nervures and tegulse dark brown ; the female 

 has the 4, and the male the 5 apical segments of the abdomen 

 ferruginous red. 



Hab. Throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon, and occurring 

 in the Malayan regions as far as Celebes. In Burma this is 

 a common species, coming often into houses in search of the 

 little jumping spiders (Attidfe) with which it provisions its nest. 

 2 . Length 14-21 ; ex^). 27-38 mm. 6 . Length 12-15; exj). 26- 

 33 mm. 



293. Pompilus zeus, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 



pp. 460 & 472, pi. iii, fig. 21 *. 

 $ . Head and thorax finely but very sparsely punctured ; clypeus 



* The type is in Mr. Eothney's collection and is marked "P. cellularis, Cara.," 

 in, I believe, Mr. Cameron's handwriting : nevertheless, Mr. Cameron described 

 it under the specific name sens, probably because cdlularis was preoccupied. 



