POMPILUS. 161 



margins of the abdominal segments with fasciae of the same, 

 which on the 2ucl, 3rd, and 4th segments are prolonged forward 

 angularly, 



Eah. Bombay. 5 • Length 12 ; exp. 18 mm. 



The type and only known specimen is in the collection of the 

 British Museum at South Kensington. 



317. Pompilus lascivus, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 

 pp. 459 & 47o, pi. iii, fig. 26. 

 Poaipilus ignicolor, Biwjh, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 432, 2 > pl- xv, 

 fig. 2. 



2 . Head and thorax in front very finely granular and opaque ; 

 median segment and abdomen pruinose ; head broad, broader than 

 the thorax ; clypeus transverse, subporrect, its anterior mai-gin 

 widely arched ; pronotum bulging at the shoulders, laterally 

 narrowed towards the head ; scutellum large, triangularly com- 

 pressed in the middle ; median segment broad, rounded 

 posteriorly, with a somewhat steep slope to the apex ; legs stout, 

 the tibiae and tarsi sparsely spinose ; abdomen pseudosessile, about 

 as long as the head and thorax together. Head, pro- and meso- 

 notum, scutellum and postscutellum dull brick-red ; median 

 segment and abdomen opaque black ; the flagellum of the antennae, 

 anterior and intermediate legs obscurely fuscous red ; wings light 

 fusco-hyaline, clear hyaline at base and extreme apical margin of 

 the fore w ing. 



Hab. Barrackpore, Bengal ; Ceylon. 5 . Length 8 ; exp. 

 14 mm. 



*318. Pompilus vitiosus. Smith, J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. 2, 1878, p. 167, S ■ 



" c? . Ferruginous ; the thorax with black markings, and the 

 abdomen fusco-ferruginous towards the apex. The antennae 

 fuscous above ; the eyes and tips of the mandibles black ; the 

 front before the antennae pale reddish yellow. The mesothorax 

 with a black longitudinal stripe on each side ; the thorax at the 

 sides and beneath paler than the disk, and with a golden lustre, 

 the pectus black ; wings fusco-hyaline. The extreme base of 

 the abdomen black, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd segments with 

 their apical margins fusco-ferruginous, the following segments 

 entirely so. 



" Length 6| lines." 



Hab. Tenasserim. 



This species was procured in December 1876, by Mr. Ossian 

 Limborg, somewhere east of Moulmein, probably at the foot of 

 Moolayit, a peak 5000 feet in height, in the Dawnat range. The 

 type is, I believe, in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Beng.al 

 at Calcutta, but I have not seen it ; and although I have collected 

 over the same ground as Limborg I have never procured this 

 Pomjyilus, 



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