172 pompiliDjE. 



scutelluni narrowed distinctly towards the apex ; median segment 

 longer than the mesotliorax, depressed in the middle at apex, the 

 laterally produced angles broad, short. Abdominal segments with 

 a broad belt of silvery pruinose pubescence. Legs moderately 

 long ; the hiuder tibiae with few spines — longish and black. The 

 transverse basal narvure is not interstitial. 



" Length 7 mm. 



" Huh. Barrackpore." 



The type and only specimen in Mr. Eothney's collection is now 

 ■wdthout a head and otherwise damaged ; I have therefore quoted 

 Mr. Cameron's original description in full. 



342. Pompilus mirandus. 



Ferreola miranda, Sauss. Novara Heisc, Hy7n. p. 49, fig. 30, $ . 

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

 p. 459. 



$ . Head broader than the thorax, smooth ; clypeus transverse, 

 anteriorly concavo-truncate ; pronotum transverse, broadly square, 

 angularly emarginate posteriorly ; scutellum somewhat compressed 

 in the middle ; median segment long, the apex slightly narrowed, 

 roundly truncate, above transversely striate and furrowed, pos- 

 teriorly above emarginate, the lateral angles produced ; abdomen 

 compressed, long, longer than the head and thorax united; legs 

 slender, the intermediate and posterior tibiae armed with a few 

 spines. Blackish plumbeous, with a silvery pile : wings hyaline, 

 nervures fuscous, the apex beyond the radial cell in fore wing 

 infuscate; radial cell short beneath, the radial nervure almost 

 concave in the middle, base and apex acutely angled ; 2nd cubital 

 cell broad, oblique on the inner side ; 3rd cubital cell much smaller, 

 much arched outwardly at base and apex ; 2nd cubital cell receives 

 the 1st, and the 3rd cubital cell the 2nd recurrent nervure in the 

 middle respectively; both cubital and discoidal nervures stop 

 short of the margin of the wing. 



Hah. TrincomaH, Ceylon. $ . Length 5 ; iving 4 mm. 



343. Pompilus myrmecoides, n. sp. 



2 . Very ant-like in shape and appearance ; head and thorax in 

 front strongly aciculate ; median segment finely riigulose ; abdomen 

 smooth and shining, very finely and only partially aciculate ; head 

 strongly convex in front, the occiput concave, the antennae planted 

 very low down on the front ; the pronotum very long, the sides 

 parallel and anteriorly suddenly narrowed towards the head, 

 posterior margin transverse ; mesouotum and scutellum \ ery 

 short ; median segment rounded posteriorly, with a short longitu- 

 dinal furrow at base ; legs short, the coxae and femora remarkably 

 stout, tibiae and tarsi with very minute spines; abdomen long, 

 cyhndrical, slightly ciu'ved downwards. Dull opaque black ; the 

 apical segment of the abdomen, the joints of the tarsi at apex, and 

 the tibial calcaria testaceous : wings dark fuscous ; fore wing, a 

 spot in the medial cell, a transverbe fascia from the apex of the 



