VI. POMPILUS. 67 
Black: head delicately punctured ; mandibles rufescent, with 
their base black ; labrum concealed. 
Thorax opaque, delicately punctured; the metathorax with a 
very slight longitudinal impression ; the tegule piceous; the 
wings iridescent, with their nervures black, and a dark cloud 
covering the marginal, submarginal, and discoidal cells, enclosing 
with the black external edge of the wing a white spot towards 
its extremity; the legs with the anterior tarsi simple, and the 
intermediate and posterior tibiz slightly serrated on the ex- 
terior. 
The abdomen, with the first and second segments, and the third 
on the sides at the base, red,—the apical segments being slightly 
ferruginous @. 
Var. (. with the inside of the anterior legs, and the posterior 
femore, and base of the tibiz, red ¢. 
The ¢ differs in wanting generally the white spot at the ex- 
tremity of the wings, and also in having the posterior tibie 
simple, and the sixth ventral segment slightly emarginate. 
In most Cabinets. 
+1; This species is very variable in the marking of the 
wings, for the white spot is not always present and is some- 
times only slightly indicated, and it is also very variable in 
size, which two circumstances have frequently led to its 
being separated into different species. It is one of the most 
common. 
Sp. 18. FAscraTELLus. Spin. 
niger, abdomine antice rufo, alis hyalinis fascid ante apicem 
fused &. 
length 43 lines. 
Spinola, 2. 37. Pl. 5. f. 22; V.d. Lind. pt. 1. 65. 31. 
Black: head punctured; apex of the mandibles rufescent ; 
labrum concealed. 
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