60 POMPILID. 
posterior femorz, red; the sides of the posterior tibia with a 
few slight dispersed hairs. 
The abdomen with a broad red band at the base of the second 
segment; the sixth ventral segment has a small emargination on 
each side of its centre, which is slightly produced ¢. 
In my own and Mr. Stephens’ Cabinet. 
+47 I am unacquainted with the ¢ of this insect; I took 
a single specimen, in 1833, at Highgate: Mr. Stephens’, I 
believe, was captured at Ripley, in Surrey. 
Sp. 11. sericatus. N. Sp. 
ater argenteo sericeus ; abdominis segmento secundo fascid latd 
rufa &. 
length 44 lines. 
Atrous: the head having the face covered with a dense silvery 
pubescence which extends a short way towards the vertex on 
the margin of the eyes; the cheeks covered behind with the 
same: the labrum concealed. 
The thorax, with the metathorax obtuse, and having a central 
longitudinal impression ; the collar, metathorax, the sides of the 
thorax, mesothorax beneath, and all the coxe of the Jegs, densely 
covered with the silvery down; the legs with their anterior tarsi 
simple, and the intermediate and posterior tibiz having a double 
row of very slight spines. 
The abdomen with the margin of the first segment piceous, 
and the base of the second of a deep red; the venter with the 
margin of the fourth segment slightly emarginate and those of 
the fifth and sixth deeply so, with a small fossulet on each side 
of the emargination of the sixth; the apical segment pointed at 
its extremity @. 
In my own Cabinet. 
+47 1 am unacquainted with the ¢. The dense silvery 
