15<> roMl'Il.JD.K. 



Aviniifs is also iliffcroiit, the iliird subniargiiml cell bciiip; more tri- 

 angular, and receiving the recurrent uervure nearer to its base. 



'S2. Pompilus alienus. 



l'\maJe. Length i\\ lines. — ]5]ack, oi)aque, and having more or less 

 of purple bloom in certain lights ; wings fuscous, the posterior pair 

 palest towards their base ; the third submarginal cell petiolated. 

 The clypous and lower portion of the face covered with bright 

 silvery pile. The anterior angles of the prothorax, the sides 

 beneath, and the cox;e and femora beneath pilose, very bright 

 in certain lights ; the metathorax truncate. Abdomen with some- 

 what obscure cinereous fascia? at the base of the first, second, and 

 third segments. 



Hah. Japan. 



33. Pompilus propinquus. 



Female. Length qA lines.— Black ; the wings dark brown, the ab- 

 domen with ferruginous markings. Head thinly sprinkled with 

 black hairs ; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded. The 

 posterior margin of the prothorax subangulated ; the meta- 

 thorax smooth, convex, and truncated, and with a slightly im- 

 pressed longitudinal Hue; the third submarginal cell triangular; 

 the posterior femora ferruginous, with the base and apex black. 

 A broad interrupted ferruginous band on the basal segment of the 

 abdomen, narrowed inwardly ; the second segment ferruginous, its 

 apical margin black, the black band widens in the middle ; the third 

 segment has two large transverse lunate spots at its base ; beneath 

 black. 



Hah. Xorth Japan. 



This species is the representative of the Pompilus fuscus of Europe. 



34. Pompilus elegans. 



Female. Length 0^ lines.— Head and thorax black, abdomen fer- 

 ruginous ; wings subhyaline, the apical margin of the anterior pair 

 bordered with fuscous beyond the marginal cell. The anterior 

 margin of the clypeus emarginate, with a broad fascia of bright 

 silvery pile, which is continued up the inner orbits of the eyes 

 a little higher than the insertion of the antennaj; the surface 

 beneath the pile is ferruginous, and this colour is continued round the 

 orbits of the eyes ; there is a similar ferruginous fascia on the hinder 

 margin of the prothorax. The metathorax with bright silvery 

 pile, as well as the sides, beneath, and the coxse and femora beneath ; 

 a deep longitudmal central channel on the metathorax, and a short 



