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14. Bomhus pomoriim, Panz. (PL XIL, fig. 9). 



Panz., Faun. Germ., 86, 18 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym., 

 2nd ed., p. 206. 



3' greyish, with a darker band across the thorax ; the abdomen 

 reddish posteriorly ; $ and ^ black, with the abdomen black at the 

 base, gradually shading into red at the apex, sometimes with the 

 thorax pale in front and on the metathorax ; the 5 in continental 

 specimens often fades to a greyish colour. 



cT • Head clothed with black hairs ; cheeks long, shining, im- 

 punctate, longer than the width of their apex. Antennae with the 

 2nd joint of the flagellum longer than the 3rd, the 3rd a little more 

 than half the length of the 4th. Thorax clothed with grey hairs, 

 with a rather wide indefinite black baud between the wings ; wings 

 slightly dusky. Abdomen clothed with grey hairs on the basal 

 segment, with reddish hairs on the others, the hairs on the apex of 

 each segment paler ; segments beneath sparingly clothed with red- 

 dish hairs ; genital armature with the sagittae curved at the apex, 

 much thickened and obliquely truncate, with a strong inferior 

 tooth near the base ; squama short, triangular, projecting at its 

 internal angle ; laeinia narrow, and somewhat twisted and apiculate 

 (see PI. XII., fig. 9). Legs clothed with black hairs, intermixed 

 with finer reddish ones ; sides of the metatarsi subparallel to their 

 base. 



$ and ^ . Clothed with black hairs ; head long, as in the 3 ', the 

 thorax in front and a band on the metathorax often more or less 

 pale. Abdomen clothed with black hairs at the extreme base, 

 gradually shading to red at the apex, the transition from one to the 

 other being almost imperceptible ; in the 5 the base of the abdo- 

 men is sometimes reddish, sometimes grey ; but this form has not 

 yet been recorded from this country. Length, ^ and J 15 — 

 18 mm., 5 12 — 14 mm. 



Hob. Very rare ; the 3 and $ only have occurred in 

 this country, and we have only one locality recorded, 

 viz., near Deal, where Mr. F. Smith captured three 

 males in 1863 and his son a ? in 1864. I have a (? in 

 my collection without note of locality. 



15. Bomhiis lajMarius, Linn. (PI. XIL, figs. 8 — 8rt). 

 Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. x., i., p. 579 ; Smith, Cat. Brit. 

 Hym., 2nd ed., p. 211. 



Clothed with deep black hairs ; the 4th and following segments 

 bright red ; ^ with the face, a band across the thorax in front, the 

 sides of the thorax beneath the wings, and a few hairs round the 



