POMPILUS. 151 



transverse, subporrect, its anterior margin arched, slightly truncate 

 in the middle ; head large, broader than the thorax, somewhat 

 convex in front, concave posteriorly ; median segment short, with 

 a rounded gradual slope, becoming abruptly steep at the apex ; legs 

 with the tibia) armed with long, stout, irregularly placed spines ; 

 abdomen longer than the head and thorax uuited, pseudosessile. 

 Head and thorax black, the apices of the antei'ior and the apical 

 two-thn-ds of the intermediate and posterior femora, the tibiae 

 of all the legs, and the basal three segments of the abdomen 

 blood-red ; the tarsi and the apical three segments fuscous, with a 

 reddish tint ; wings hyaline, the apical half sordid yellow, the 3rd 

 cubital cell in the fore wing subtriangular and remarkably narrow, 

 measuring on the cubital nervure not quite one-third the width 

 of the 2nd cubital cell. 



Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal. $. Length 9; exp. 17 mm. 



*294. Pompilus wroughtoni, Cam. Mem. Mamh. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 

 1891, pp. 4(j0 & 464, pi. iii, tig. 10. 



" Very similar to P. rothneyi, having the same grey pruinose 

 vesture, with the abdominal segments grey and black, and the 

 apex of the median segment concave, the head very little developed 

 behind the eyes, and the abdomen subsessile ; but is smaller, 

 narrower, and more slender ; the wings are subhyaline throughout, 

 not yellowish or infuscated at apex ; the second cubital cellule is 

 much longer at the bottom compared with the third ; the third 

 beijig of the length of the space bounded by the first transverse 

 cubital and the firot recurrent, the latter being received at a greater 

 distance froin the transverse cubital ; the second recurrent is 

 received in the apical fourth of the cellule, not before the middle ; 

 and lastly the long spur of the metatarsus (? tibia) reaches almost 

 close to the apex of the metatarsus. 



'• Hah. Poona ( Wrouijhton)." 



295. Pompilus fenestratus, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 144, 5 ; Jour. Linii. 



Soc. 1867, p. 352 ; Cam. Mem. Matich. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 

 p. 458. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth ; clypeus very convex, 

 its anterior margin boldly arcuate and turned downwards ; 

 scutellum raised and prominent ; median segment w itli a smooth 

 rounded slope to its apex, which is recurved ; legs with, the tibi* 

 and tarsi spinose, the spines long and scattered, claws nnidentate 

 at base below. Head, thorax, and apical segments of the abdomen 

 black, the former two densely covered with silvery pile, the basal 

 three segments of the abdomen and the base of the 4th ferruginous 

 red ; wings hyaline for halt' their length, fuscous beyond. 



Hah. India (Bengal); Burma. $. Length S ; e.vp. 17 nnn, 



296. Pompilus acceptus. 



Pompilus elegaiis, Smith, New Sp. Hipn. li. M. (1879) p. 150, 5 

 (nee Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i, 1867, p. 109 j. 



