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wings subliyallne, with a dark cloud at tlieir apical margins 
beyond the third siibmarginal cell. Head : a narrow line 
behind the eyes, a broader one at their inner margin on the 
face, not extending to their vertex; a bilobed spot between 
the antenna;, a triangular one on each side of the clypeus, 
and the mandibles, white, the latter ferruginous at their 
apex ; the palpi pale ferruginous ; the scape white in front, 
and the flagellum ftJvous beneath. The anterior coxfe with 
a white spot at their apex ; the tibire, tarsi and femora 
ferruginous in front, the latter black towards the base ; the 
tibifB with a white line outside ; the intermediate and pos- 
terior femora ferruginous within ; the posterior tibi^ pale 
at their base ; all the calcaria pale ; the intermediate and 
posterior femora ferruginous towards their apex ; the pos- 
terior margin of the prothorax white, and a minute white 
spot on the mesothorax before the scutellum ; the meta- 
thorax with a thin clothing of griseous pubescence. An 
interrupted white line at the basal margin of the second, 
third and fourth segments. 
Hab. — Hakodadi. 
3. Pompilus arrogans. 
Female. Length 6^ lines. Black, the abdomen macu- 
lated with white. Head: an abbreviated narrow white 
line at the inner and outer orbits of the eyes ; the anterior 
margin of the clypeus rounded. Thorax : the posterior 
margin of the prothorax rounded, and with a slightly in- 
terrupted white fascia ; the wings subhyaline, and with a 
dark fuscous cloud at their apical margins beyond the 
third submarginal cell ; the metathorax smooth and shin- 
ing ; a minute white spot at the base of the posterior tibije. 
Abdomen : a white elongate spot at the basal margin of 
the second and third segments laterally, the spots pointed 
within : all the tibiae and tarsi spinose. 
Hab. — Hiogo. 
4. Pompilus consanguineus. 
Female. Length 6i lines. Black, smooth, and shin- 
ing ; the mandibles ferniginous towards their apex, with 
the tips black ; the posterior margin of the prothorax 
angulated ; wings fuscous, with a dark cloud at their apex; 
legs spinose ; the sides of the abdomen thinly covered with 
whitish pile. 
This species exactly resembles large examples of the 
European P. niger which I have received from Dumfries, 
and, like them, it has the third submarginal cell much less 
