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of more silvery pubescence; the sixth ventral segment emarginate 
and the seventh has a longitudinal central carina. 
In my own and other Cabinets. 
+4+ The colour of the legs differs much in this species, 
scarcely two specimens being alike, and sometimes the pos- 
terior pair are also quite black, as exhibited in a specimen 
in the Rev. F. W. Hope’s rich cabinet. This species has 
been taken by the Hon. Mr. Harris and Mr. Curtis, at 
Ramsdown, near Heron Court, Hampshire, and by the 
Rev. F. W. Hope, at Southend, and in North Wales. 
(c) Abdomen more or less red at the base. 
Sp. 10. notatus. Rossi. 
niger, antennis thorace pauld longioribus, abdominis segmento 
secundo supra fuscid rubrad sepe obsoletd, pedibus partim 
nigris partim rubris 3. 
é length 3% lines. 
Vander Lind. pt. 1. 47. 12. 
Sphex notata. Rossi, F. E. Mant. 1. 127. 281. 
Pompilus gutta. Spin. 2. 490. 
Black: head punctured and having a longitudinal impressed 
line extending from the base of the antennz to the anterior 
stemma; the antenne slender, longer than the thorax ; the apex 
of the mandibles rufescent; labrum concealed. 
The thorax punctured, slightly pubescent; the metathorax 
finely granulated and covered with a silvery pubescence, most 
dense at the sides; the tegulz piceous; the wings iridescent, 
slightly tinged towards their extremity, their nervures black ; 
the legs with their coxz covered with a dense silvery pubescence, 
and the anterior femorz inside towards their apex, the whole of 
their tibia and tarsi, the intermediate femore and tibiz, except- 
ing the base of the former and the knees, and the entire 
