POMPILUS CINCTELLUS. 61 



temuro oculi, tibiarum posticarum basi, et abdominis seg- 

 mento septimo supra, albidis ; pedibus nigris. Mas. 



Pompilus cinctellus, Spin. Ins. Ligur. ii. 39. 34 $ . 



Van d. Lind. Obs. i. 319. 13 <J ? . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 55. 6. 



Schiodte, Krby. TidssJcr. i. 333. 1. t. 4. f. a. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 38. 19. 



Wesm. Hym. Fess. Belg. 

 Pompilus clypeatus, Dahlb. Mon. Pomp. 14. 22 ; Exerc. Hym. 69. 



24?. 

 Pompilus punctipes, Dahlb. Exerc. Hym. 65. 15 $ . 

 Anoplius cinctellus, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 453. 19 $ . 

 Anoplius tibialis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 454. 21 $ . 



Female. Length 3-4 lines. — Black ; covered with a slate- 

 coloured pile ; the head has an impressed longitudinal line run- 

 ning from the base of the clypeus up to the anterior stemma ; 

 a small white spot on the inner orbit of the eyes about the 

 middle ; the clypeus white, with a black spot in the middle of 

 its base ; the mandibles white, with their apex ferruginous. 

 Thorax : the collar with a white spot on each side, sometimes 

 obsolete ; the metathorax densely covered with short silvery 

 pubescence ; the wings hyaline and iridescent, with a broad 

 fuscous band towards their apex, leaving the tips white; the 

 legs red, the coxae black and covered with silvery pubescence, 

 their extreme apex red ; the knees and terminal joints of the 

 tarsi piceous ; the anterior pair slightly ciliated, the interme- 

 diate and posterior tibia? with a double row of short black 

 spines. Abdomen shining, a few black hairs at the extreme 

 apex. 



Male. Length 2-2i lines. — Black, with sometimes a white spot 

 on the inner margin of the eye ; the face, metathorax, and 

 coxae with a silvery pubescence ; the wings have an indistinct 

 fascia ; the anterior tibiae within and the tarsi fulvous ; a white 

 spot at the base of the posterior tibiae outside, sometimes ob- 

 solete ; the legs with a few slight spines. Abdomen : the apical 

 segment white above ; the sixth ventral segment deeply emar- 

 ginate ; the seventh with a central longitudinal carina. 



This species, unlike most of the genus, prefers banks of light 

 earth for its burrows, which it provisions with small spiders, fre- 

 quently selecting a white-bodied one common upon Heath. Both 

 sexes were taken under the above circumstances in the middle of 

 June 1845, at Hawley, Hants; it is taken in the London district, 

 and is widely distributed, but must be considered a local species; 

 it has been taken in Devonshire. 



