POMPILID.^. 73 



This is a small genus, of which we have only two British 



species. Kohl records six altogether; four Palxarctic, one 



Neo-tropical, and one Australian. 



(2) 1. Metauotum smooth ; punctured . . . niRCANA. 

 (1) 2. Metauotum transversely rugose . . . vabiegata. 



A. hircana, Fah. {blfasciuta, Smith, Slnicl.). — Black, 

 shining, head and thorax closely punctured, sparingly pilose, 

 pronotutn very obtusely augulated posteriorly, wings in 

 the (J with a slight cloud along the anterior basal nervure 

 of the forewings and across the radial and second and 

 third submarginal cells, as well as the third discoidal; in 

 the $ with two distinct bands in the same regions, propo- 

 deuin shining, punctured, its sides slightly pilose; abdomen 

 shining, very finely punctured, apical ventral valve in the 

 (J compressed laterally, viewed sideways subtriangular or 

 hatchet-shaped, with its base deep and straight, its apex 

 hairy ; ? with 'the apical segments densely clothed with 

 bristly hairs ; legs with fine exserted hairs on the tibias. 



L. 6-8 mm. 



AV^oollacombe, N. Devon ; Coombe Wood ; Colney Hatch ; 

 New Forest ; Hampstead ; Barmouth ; (Smith). Salcombe ; 

 Keswick ; {Marshall). Sopworth, Wilts ; [B. C. L. rerkliis). 

 Maidstone ; {Frishi/). Wotton-under-Edge, GloucestershirL' ; 

 {V. R.PerUns). 



A. variegata, Linn. — In colour and general appearance 

 like the preceding, but more strongly and more remotely 

 punctured, prothoracic emargiuatiou very shallow and 

 arcuate, propodeum transversely rugose, and more distinctly 

 pilose at the sides; ^ with the apical ventral segment, 

 viewed sideways not abruptly truncate at the base, clothed 

 with long hairs. 



L. 6-10 mm. 



Coombe Wood; Wakefield, Yorkshire; {Smith). N. Forest; 

 Bristol; Glanvilles Wootton ; Portland; {Dale). Stecphill, 

 Ventnor ; (liothney). Wotton-nnder-Edgo, Gloucestershire ; 

 " in old stumps, runs under the bark ; its prey is a large 



