rOMPILID.a. 65 



WokiQg ; Chobham. Bournemouth ; Colcliester ; (Ilar- 

 wood). 



P. pectinipes, V. de L. — Like the other red-bodieJ 

 species iu colour, but clothed more densely with fine glossy 

 pubescence, silvery in some lights, brown in others, and 

 with the posterior emargiuatlon of the pronotum arcuately 

 emarginate in both sexes. 



c? with the apical ventral valve carinated at the base, 

 its sides somewhat sinuate, and with a shorter carina 

 uniting with the basal one on each side. 



? with the head narrower than in gibbus ; the antennas 

 shorter and stouter; abdomen with the base of the first, 

 second, and third segments clothed with a sort of glaucous 

 bloom visible only in certain lights ; the ? varies very 

 much in size. 



L. $ 8-9 mm., $6-9 mm. 



Woking ; Chobham ; Deal ; Southwold. Hampstead ; 

 (Shuckard). Southend; (Smith). Wotton-under-Edge ; 

 (F. R. Perlcins). Barmouth; Parley Heath; (Dale). 

 Hastings; (Frishy). Eugby ; (Morice). Norfolk; {Brid(j- 

 man). Colchester; [Harwood). Southport ; (B. Cooke). 

 Perth; Sandwich; Milford ; Salcombe ; [Marshnll). 



SALIUS, Fab. 



(SuBG. PRIOCNEMIS, Schiodte.) 



Very like Pompilus in general characters and appear- 

 ance, but distinguishable in either sex by the finely 

 punctured or coriaceous vertex of the head, and iu the ? 

 by the serrate posterior tibias, and tho transverse impres- 

 sion on the second ventral segment of tho abdomen; Iho 

 radial cell is more elongate, and tho submargiual cells, 

 whicli arc always three in number, are larger, and extend 

 further towards the apex of tho wing; the dist^ngui^hing 

 characters of the species, as in Poiiqiilu.-t, are more pro- 

 nounced in the J' than in the ? . 



