168 POMPILIDiE. 



segment short, with a rouuded truncation posteriorly ; legs with the 

 tibicE and tarsi spinose, the spines short, stout, and 

 scattered ; claws unidentate at base below ; abdo- 

 men pseudosessile. Black ; the head, except an 

 irregular black mark on the front reaching the 

 base of the antennas, a broad stripe on the pos- 

 terior margin of the pronotum, a square spot 

 at the apex of the mesonotum, the scutellum 

 ill the middle, the legs, except the coxae, tro- 

 chanters, base of the femora, and the apical 



Fig. sa.—Pompi- joints of the tai-si, and two linear spots at the 

 lioi bioculatus, ^^^^ q£ ^j^g 2nd segment of the abdomen, ferru- 

 °' ^' ginous red; wings ferruginous, with their apical 



borders broadly fuscous. The spots on the abdomen are sometimes 



obsolete. 



Hah. Sikhim, Burma, extending to China and Japan. ? . 



Length 12-17 ; exp. 30-35 mm. 6 somewhat smaller. 



333. Pompilus -iinifasciatiis. (PL I, fig. 7.) 



Smith, Cat. iii, p. 145, $ ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 

 1891, p. 460. 

 Pompilus exortivus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 188, § . 



5 . Head, pro- and mesothorax smooth, very slightly pubescent ; 

 median segment covered with a thin soft pubescence, posteriorly 

 rounded, with a steep slope to the apex ; legs with the tibiae and 

 tarsi stoutly spinose ; abdomen pruinose, with a thin covering of 

 short recumbent hairs. Terruginous red, with a silky lustre in 

 certain lights ; the wings ferruginous yellow, broadly fuscous at 

 apex ; three or four of the apical joints of the intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi and the abdomen black, the latter has a transverse 

 fascia at the base of the 2nd and the whole of the apical segment 

 ferruginous. A variety has the pro- and mesonotum marked with 

 yellow over the ferruginous, others have the median segment 

 shaded with fuscous, and occasionally the basal segment of the 

 abdomen will have stains of ferruginous red. 



Hub. India, Burma, Malacca, China, and Japan. $ . Letigth 

 23-26 ; exp. 45-48 mm. J somewhat smaller. 



334. Pompilus alicise, Bingh. Jour. Linn. Soc. 1896, p. 431, pi. xix, 



figs, o, ba. 

 $ . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, very slightly pruinose ; 

 clypeus broader than high, convex, slightly projecting, somewhat 

 emarginate anteriorly in the middle ; prothorax squarish in front, 

 the posterior margin of the pronotum arched ; median segment 

 rounded, with a very steep slope to the apex; legs stout, the 

 tibite and tarsi spinose, the spines long and irregular ; abdomen 

 subsessile, as long as the head and thorax united, its apical 

 segment studded with stilf hairs. Black, the basal two-thirds of 

 the clypeus, the front and vertex, the scape of the antennae, a 

 broad line on the posterior margin of the pronotum, a square spot 



