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fulvo-hyaline^ with their apical margins bordered with 

 fuscous; the nervures ferruginous. Abdomen, smooth 

 and slightly shining, a cream-coloured ovate spot on each 

 side of the third segment at its basal margin. 



Hab. Australia. 



In the British Museum. 



2. Po'injnlus lugubris. 



Female. Length og- lines. Black, with yellow anten- 

 nfB. Head and thorax semi-opaque, the abdomen shining. 

 The antennee inserted at the sides of a bilobate promi- 

 nence on the face ; the front and cheeks with thinly scat- 

 tered cinereous hairs. Thorax: the sides, and beneath, 

 with scattered cinereous hairs ; wings dark fuscous, their 

 apex as well as the externo-medial cell palest, a darker 

 cloud also crosses the anterior wings at the second sub- 

 marginal cell. The abdomen with a short petiole. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



In the British Museum. 



3. Pompilus distinctus. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Black: the prothorax, and the 

 second and following segments of the abdomen, reddish- 

 yellow. Head: the antennee, clypeus, labrum, mandibles, 

 a spot between the antennae, and a line at the inuer and 

 outer orbits of the eyes, orange-yellow. The prothorax 

 above, the apex of the femora, the tibias and tarsi, orange- 

 yellow; the wings fulvo-hyaline. Abdomen orange-yel- 

 low, with the basal segment black. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



In the British Museum. 



4. Pompihis tricolor. 



Male. Length 6 lines. Black: variegated with yellow 

 and ferruginous. Head : antennae ferruginous, fuscous 

 above ; the face, scape in front, and behind the eyes, yel- 

 low. Thorax black : the prothorax, a V -shaped mark on 

 the disc of the mesothorax, the tegulse and an epaulet 

 over them, the scutellum, a line on the post-scutellum 

 with a minute dot at each end of the line, and the apex 



