Heterogynn and Fossorial Hymenoptcra. 245 



3. punction, Fab. Spec. Ins. p. 448. Fig. Panz. Faun. 

 Germ. 86, 12 ^petiolatus, Shuck. 



Black ; <? with the sides of the face, mandibles, and 

 a spot on the anal segment, white. 



Head and thorax finel}'- and closely punctured ; pro- 

 thorax arcuately emarginate; wings without transverse 

 dark bands ; metathorax finely and transversely rugose ; 

 abdomen exceedingly finely and closely punctured, and 

 covered with a fine sericeous pubescence ; apex with a 

 few irregular hairs ; legs with a few very short spines 

 on the tibiae ; <? with the apical segment beneath, narrow 

 and somewhat carinated in the middle. Length 7 — 9 

 mill. 



Hah. — London district, Canterbur}^, Birch Wood, 

 Bexley, Hammersmith, &c. 



Ceropales, Latr. (PI. VII. fig. 17). 



Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 283. 



Differs from the rest of the Pompilidce in having the 

 antennae at some distance above the clypeus, and in 

 having four submarginal cells in the upper wings ; both 

 our species have white markings on the thorax and 

 abdomen. 



(2) 1. Body not red at the base . . . . . . . . maculatus. 



(1) 2. Body red at the base . . . . . . . . . . variegatus. 



1. maculatus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 345. Fig. Panz. Germ. 

 72, 9 (frontalis). 



$ black ; surface of head and thorax very finely ru- 

 gose, with large shallow scattered punctures ; abdomen 

 shining, finely punctured ; face beneath the antennae 

 and along the sides of the eyes, a spot on the 1st and 

 2nd joints of the antennae, a semicircular line at the 

 base of the prothorax, the scutellum, the apex of the 

 metathorax on each side, a spot on each side of the 1st, 

 a band at the apex of the 2nd, and a spot on the 5th and 

 6th, as well as two on the 7th segment of the abdomen, 

 pale yellowish w^hite ; legs testaceous-red ; femora more 

 or less black ; tibiae dark at the apex ; coxas each with a 

 pale spot ; ventral anal segment with its sides widely 

 reflexed. 



? only differs in being longer, with the face black 



