POMPILID.E. 6r 



black, clotlied with scattered black bairs, face silvery below 

 tlie anteunre ; pronotum very shallowly emarginate pos- 

 teriorly, propodeum more or less silvery, clothed with 

 scattered hairs, wiugs dusky, with a dark apical band ; 

 abdomen elongate, first three segments red, the apex of the 

 third and the whole of the following segments black, the 

 apical margins of the first and second segments are also as 

 a rule dusky, sixth and seventh segments flattened dorsally, 

 sixth ventral segment, deeply omarginated in the centre 

 with a small elongate fovea on each side, seventh wide, flat, 

 and subtruncate, carinated at the base ; legs with the tibiae 

 spinose. 



? larger and stouter than the (;J, without silvery hairs on 

 the face and propodeum, but the black hairs thicker and 

 more abundant, wings darker than in the $ ; abdomen 

 red, with a dark band, produced in the middle, on the 

 first, second, and third segments, the rest entirely black, 

 the sixth clothed with bristly black hairs ; front tarsi 

 pectinated. 



L. 10-15 mm. 



Common, occurs from April to August, provisions its 

 nest with spiders. This year (1893) I saw it as early as 

 31st March. 



P. COnsobrinuS, Dahlb. — Much smaller than viaficus, 

 and differing from all the following species which resemble 

 it in colour, by the finely pilose propodeum ; emargination 

 of the pronotum more sharply angulated than in viatkus ; 

 abdomen without the black apical band on the first and 

 second segments, apical dorsal valve in the ? with only a 

 few fine hairs, apical ventral valve in the cJ convex, cari- 

 nated at the base, and somewhat pointed at the apex. 



L. 6-8 mm. 



Rare, but probably overlooked. Ilayling Island ; sand- 

 hills on the west of the island. Norwich ; {Bridfjman). 

 Colchester; (Harwood). Land's End ; (^l/anj'?(a»(/). Hastings. 



P. minutulus, Dalhh. (cellularis, Thorns.). — ]31ack, the 

 first anil second segments of the abdomen and the base of 



