62 POMPILUS RUFII'ES. 



9. Poinpilus rufipes. 

 P. ater ; abdominis segmcntis utrinque macula alba, alis apici- 

 bus fuscis, pedibus posticis rufis. 



Sphex rufipes, Linn. Faun. Suec. no. 1659 ; Syst. Nat. i. 945. 29, 

 if Cab. Mus. Linn. Soc. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 214. 66. 

 Sphex fuscata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 212. 57. 

 Ponipilus fuscatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 248. 14 (var.) ; Syst. 



Piez. 192. 22. 

 Fompilus rufipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suj)p. 250. 27; Syst. Piez. 195. 

 37. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 65. 17; Krit. Revis. ii. 119. 



Latr. Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins. xiii. 281. 6. 



Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 69. 6. 



St. Farg. if Serv. Ency. Meth. x. 180. 3. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. i. 329. 24. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. v. t. 238 ? . 



Brulle, Expe'd. Sc. More'e, iii. 364. 804, Atlas, t. 50. f . 4 $ . 



Dahlb. Mon. Pomp. 11. 16; Exercit. Hym. 67. 18; Hym. 



Europ. i. 50. 27. 

 Shuck. Foss. Hym. 58. 9. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 421. 7. 

 Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 29. 3. 

 Pompilus albonotatus, Fan d. Lind. Obs. i. 328. 23. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 53. 

 Pompilus bipunctatus, Dahlb. Mon. Pomp. 12. 19 (var.) ; Exercit. 



Hym. 67. 19. 

 Pompilus septemmaculatus, Dahlb. Mon. Pomp. 11. 17; Exercit. 



Hym. 67. 19. 

 Episyron rufipes, Schibdte, Mon. Pomp. Krby. Tidsskr. i. 343. 1. 



Female. Length 4-6 lines. — Black ; the head with thin black 

 pubescence ; a slightly impressed line passes from the anterior 

 stemma to the base of the antenna? ; the mandibles obscure 

 ferruginous at their apex. Thorax pubescent, with the poste- 

 rior margin of the prothorax arcuate ; wings slightly coloured, 

 with a dark border at their apex, the nervures black ; the meta- 

 thorax obtuse and shining, with a very slightly impressed lon- 

 gitudinal line; the posterior tibiae and femora red, the base 

 of the latter black ; the intermediate femora and tibiae more or 

 less red at their apex beneath ; the anterior tarsi strongly cili- 

 ated, and the intermediate and posterior tibiae with a double 

 row of spines. Abdomen : an ovate transverse white spot at 

 the base of the second and third segments, that on the latter the 

 largest ; a central white spot at the base of the sixth. 

 Varies in having the posterior legs entirely black, and the spots 



on the second segment of the abdomen obsolete. A variety. 



