VI. POMPILUS. ae 
+4-+ Found at Coombe, in the New Forest, and elsewhere ; 
the 4 appears to be rare. This species cannot be a variety 
of P. exaltatus, as a comparison of the two, or their descrip- 
tions, will distinctly show. 
Spe. 4. variecatus. Lin. 
ater, immaculaius, alis albis, fasciis duabus nigris, metathorace 
obscuro et crassé punctato seu transversa scalpto. 
length 4 lines. 
Illiger, F. E. 2. 99. 820. var. 2; V.d. L. pt. 1. 41. 
Sphex variegata. Lin. F. 8. 1655; 8. N. 1. 944.18; Villers, 3. 231. 
30. 
Pompilus hireanus. Fab. E.S. Sup. 251. 30; Piez. 195. 40; Panz. 
87. 21; Ency. Méth. 10. 180. 7. 
Entirely black: head punctured; mandibles with their apex 
rufescent; labrum concealed. 
Thorax punctured; dorsolum and scutellum shining; metatho- 
rax gibbous, very deeply punctured and opaque ; superior wings 
with a transverse dark fascia occupying the transverso-medial 
and the geniculation of the interno-medial nervures; another, 
much broader, traversing the wing at the marginal and sub- 
marginal cells which it occupies, and with the exterior edge, 
which is also dark, encloses a milky spot; the legs, with the 
anterior tarsi, having a few very short cilia, and the intermediate 
and posterior tibiz with a double row of very short spines on 
their exterior. 
The abdomen punctured; the two last segments with some 
scattered rigid hairs, placed most thickly towards the apex of the 
terminal one. 
I am unacquainted with the ¢. 
@ in my own Cabinet. 
+++ Taken at Coombe, in August, 1833. This insect 
greatly resembles the preceding, from which however it is 
