230 Mr. E. Saunders' Synopais of BriHsli 



1. fcmoratu, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 353. Fig. Panz. 



Faim. Germ. liii. 2. 

 Black, shining, clothed with scattered, white, shining 

 hairs ; posterior and intermediate femora and tibise 

 in the ? red. Head rugosely pmictured ; prothorax 

 slightly emarginate in front, its angles slightly produced, 

 irregularly and remotely punctured anteriorly ; meso- 

 thorax remotely punctured; wings slightly brownish 

 in the ? , hyaline in the t? , 2 with the radial cell 

 incomplete ; scutellum finely and remotely punctured, 

 with a row of large punctures round its posterior 

 margin ; metathorax sharply truncate posteriorly, with 

 three raised longitudinal lines down tho middle, sides 

 longitudinally strigose ; abdomen punctured, 1st segment 

 in the <? with a distinct, raised, transverse line at the 

 base ; tibiae and tarsi hairy and spinose. 



Length 8—12 mill. 



Common in many localities. Birch Wood ; Blackwater, 

 Hants ; Windsor ; Southend ; Deal ; Lowestoft ; South- 

 wold ; &c. Often on Umbelliferous flowers, especially 

 Dancus Carota. 



2. minuta, V. d. Lind. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Brux. iv. 



p. 182. Fig. Curtis Brit. Ent. xiv. p. 664. 



Somewhat like the preceding, but much smaller ; 

 entirely black in both sexes, and not so shining; the 

 wings with the stigma much larger, and the radial cell 

 in both sexes complete ; the <? without a raised transverse 

 line at the base of the first abdominal segment. 



Length 6 — 7 mill. 



Hal). — Hampstead, Southgate, Colney Hatch, Chob- 

 ham, Bristol, Glanvilles-Wootton, Braunton Burrows, 

 N. Devon, &c. 



POMPILID^. 



(■i) 1. Front wings with two subniarginal cells. 



('■]) 2. Prothorax elongate ; wings received in the middle 



of the sides of the thorax ; mandibles 3-dentate AjJorns. 

 (2) 3. Prothorax transvei'se; wings received before the 



middle of the thorax ; mandibles 2-dentate . . Evagcthes. 

 (1) 4. Three or four submarginal cells. 

 (10) 5. Three suhmarginal cells. 

 (7) 6. Vertex not punctured .. .. .. .. Fompiliis. 



