58 POMPILIDA. 
+4+ I am indebted to the kindness of A. H. Davis, Esq. 
for this species; it was taken in the north of England. 
Sp. 9. ruFipEs. Lin. 
ater, abdominis segmentis ulrinque maculd albd, alis apice nigris, 
pedibus posticis rubris  Q. 
length 3—6 lines. 
Fab. E. S. Supp. 250. 27 ; Piez. 195. 37; Latr. H. 13. 281. 6; Panz. 
65. 17; Ency. Meth. 10. 180.3; V.d.L. pt. 1.59; Curtis, Brit. 
Ent. 5. 238. 
Sphex rufipes. Lin. F. 8. 1659; S. N. 945. 29; Villers, 3. 235. 37; 
Fab. 8. E. 351. 29; Ent. Syst. 2. 214. 66. 
fuscata. Fab. E. S. 2.212. 57. 
Pompilus fuscatus. Fab. Ent. Sys. Supp. 248. 14; Piez. 192. 22. 
Black: the head hirsute, delicately punctured, with a longi- 
tudinal impressed line extending from the base of the antennz 
to the anterior stemma; mandibles piceous; labrum triangular, 
slightly exserted. 
The thorax hirsute, punctured; the metathorax obtuse, deli- 
cately punctured, shining; the wings with their nervures black, 
a broad black band on their external margin and the surface 
having an opaline reflection; the legs black, with the posterior 
femore and tibiz red, and the intermediate pair being more or 
less red inside; the anterior tarsi strongly ciliated, and the inter- 
mediate and posterior tibize with a double row of spines. 
The abdomen black and shining, with a transverse ovate white 
spot at the base of the second (sometimes obsolete) and third 
segments, the latter being the largest (one sometimes also on 
each side of the fourth segment), and a central one at the base 
of the sixth ¢. 
The ¢ differs (also sometimes wanting the spots on the second 
segment) in having the spots on the third segment converted into 
an interrupted band (sometimes scarcely so, or else with all the 
white markings excepting that on the terminal segment wanting), 
otherwise like the 2, but having the customary ¢ characteristic 
