66 POMPILIDA. 
apex of the mandibles piceous; labrum slightly exserted, sub- 
emarginate. 
The thorax delicately punctured, pubescent ; the metathorax 
very coarsely wrinkled transversely, with a central longitudinal 
impression ; the nervures of the wings black, the wings them- 
selves slightly fuscous, with a broad dark band at their edge 
which extends inwardly as far as the marginal and submarginal 
cells; the legs with the anterior tarsi slightly ciliated, and the 
intermediate tibize and first joint of the tarsi spinose; the pos- 
terior tibize strongly serrated, and the first joint of their tarsi also 
spinose. 
The abdomen has a whitish reflection, and the first, second, 
and base of the third segments, red,—the margin of the second 
being more deeply coloured; the remainder black, with their 
margins piceous, and the last segment having its apex covered 
with fulvous hair 9. 
The ¢ differs only in the usual characteristics and the 
metathorax being less coarsely wrinkled, the central longitudinal 
impression deeper, and the sixth ventral segment very slightly 
emarginate. 
In the Cabinets of Mr. Curtis, Mr. Hope, 
Mr. Stephens, and my own, 
+4+ This species has been found by myself in the vicinity 
of London, I think in Copenhagen Fields; by Mr. Ste- 
phens at Ripley; by the Rev. F. W. Hope at Southend, 
in Essex; and by Mr. Curtis in Norfolk. 
Sp. 17. Exaxtatus. Fab. 
niger, abdominis basi rufo, alis apice fuscis, puncto albo. 
length 23—63 lines. 
Fab. E. S. Supp. 251.31; Piez. 195. 41; Panz. 86. 10; Revis. 2. 
119; Lat. H. 13. 281.3; Ency. Méth. 10. 182. 15; V. d. Lind. 
pt. 1. 64. 30. 
Sphex exaltata. Fab. S. E. 351. 31; E. 8. 2. 214. 69; Villers, 3. 
239. 47. 
albomaculata. Schrank. Ins. Austr. 383. 75; Villers, 3, 249. 80. 
Pompilus variegatus. Var. 1. Illiger, F. E. 2. 99, 820. 
