70 POMPILIDA. 
Black: head punctured, subpubescent ; antenne black, with 
a cream-coloured spot on the scape beneath, and the face with a 
longitudinal line of the same colour occupying the inner orbit of 
the eyes and traversing the clypeus (sometimes not) on each 
side, the latter covered with a silvery pubescence. 
Thorax punctured, with a band at the posterior margin of the 
collar, sometimes obsolete or interrupted, a small lunate spot 
occupying the post-dorsolum and another on each side at the 
extreme apex of the metathorax, all cream coloured; the meta- 
thorax granulated, with a slightly elevated longitudinal line in 
its centre ; the wings subhyaline, iridescent, with their nervures 
piceous and their stigma ferruginous, their extreme margin being 
slightly coloured ; the legs red, with the coxze and trochanters 
black, as well as the knees, apex of the tibize and articulations 
of the tarsi of the posterior pair, their coxe having also a longi- 
tudinal cream-coloured line, but the legs vary much, being some- 
times black and of all the intermediate tints. 
Abdomen with an ovate transverse spot on each side of the 
first segment, a band at the margin of second, and others 
abbreviated on each side at the margin of the fourth, fifth, and 
sixth segments, all cream coloured. The markings vary much, 
being sometimes nearly obsolete. : 
The g differs in having the cream-coloured markings more 
distinct and larger, and wanting the abbreviated band on the 
margin of the fourth segment. 
In most Cabinets. 
{4+ This insect varies considerably, scarcely two indi- 
viduals being exactly alike. It has been taken by F. Walker, 
Esq.,in September, at Barmouth and Penzance; by the Rev. 
F. W. Hope, in North Wales; by Mr. Davis, at Birchwood 
in Kent; and by Mr. Stephens, at Ripley in Surrey. 
