72 POMPILUS VARIEGATUS. 



Agenia bifasciata, Schiodte, Mon. Pomp. Kroy. Tidsskr. i. 323. 2. 

 Anoplius bifasciata, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 459. 30. 



Female. Length ^-4 lines. — Black and shining ; the clypeus 

 with a few rufescent setae ; the tips of the mandibles ferruginous. 

 Thorax : the posterior margin of the prothorax subangulated ; 

 the metathorax gibbous, convex, smooth and shining, with a 

 slightly impressed line at its base in the centre, frequently ob- 

 solete ; the anterior wings hyaline and iridescent, with a nar- 

 row transverse dark fascia covering the transverso-medial ner- 

 vure and the geniculation of the interno-medial ; another much 

 wider at the marginal and submarginal cells, which it nearly 

 occupies; the apical margin of the wings with a very narrow 

 dark border, with a more or less distinct milk-white spot beyond 

 the third submarginal cell; the legs simple, or having only a 

 few scattered short hairs. Abdomen very smooth and shining ; 

 the apex slightly rufescent ; the apical segment covered with 

 long black hairs. 



The Mule has the antennae as long as the thorax, the fasciae on 

 the wings paler, and the apical ventral segment pinched into an 

 elevated sharp carina. 



This is a rare species ; but it has occurred at Coombe Wood, 

 Surrey, and in the New Forest. The male I took at Colney 

 Hatch in 1828, and a female at Hampstead in August 1858. 



19. Pompilus (Agenia) variegatus. 



P. ater, immaculatus ; alis albis, fasciis duabus fuscis ; meta- 



thorace obscuro et erasse punctato seu transverso-rugoso. 



Sphex variegata, Linn. Faun. Suec. no. 1655; Syst. Nat. i. 944. 

 18 ; and Cab. Mus. Linn. Soc. 



Midler, Prodr. Z. D. 160. 



Fillers, Entom. iii. 231. 30. 

 Pompilus hircanus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 251. 31 ; Syst. Piez. 

 195. 40. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 87. 21 ; Krit. Revis. ii. 119. 



Spin. Ins. Ligur. ii. 172. 12. 



Jurine, Hym. 122. 



Dahlb. Mon. Pomp. 7. 9. 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 439. 8. 

 Pompilus variegatus, Illiy. Faun. Etrus. ii. 99. 820. 



St. Farg. $ Sere. Ency. Meth. x. 180. 8. 



Vand. Lind. Obs.i. 311.6. 



Dahlb. Exercit. Hym. 64. 11. 



Shuck- Foss. Hym. 53. 4. 



