118 HYMENOPTERA. 
their emargination, and a lunule at the base of the clypeus, pale 
yellow. Thorax: a spot on each side of the collar, and the tibie 
above, yellow ; the tarsi fulvo-testaceous, more or less fuscous 
above ; the wings faintly coloured and iridescent. Abdomen: 
the third segment has on each side a transverse yellow stripe, 
frequently uniting ; the fourth an elongate stripe, pomted within ; 
the sixth segment has a large ovate macula, occupying the 
greater portion of it; beneath, the third and fourth segments 
have an interrupted fascia in the middle. 
Male.—Very closely resembling the other sex, but having a 
yellow spot on each side of the metathorax ; and the tibize more 
yellow, having merely a fulvous stain behind; the yellow bands 
on the thorax are both continuous. 
Hab. St. Martin’s Falls, Hudson’s Bay. (Coll. G. Barnston, 
Esq.) 
Fam. 2. POMPILID A. 
Genus 1. POMPILUS. 
Sphex, pt., Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 941 (1766). 
Evania, pt., et Sphex, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. u. 192, 198 (1793). 
Pompilus, pt., Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 246 (1798). 
Ceropales, pt., et Pompilus, pt., Kabr. Syst. Piez. p. 185. 187 
(1804). 
Priocnemis, Agenia, Pompilus, et Episyron, Schiddte, Mon. Pomp. 
Kroyer, Tidsskr. i. 324. 321. 331 (1837). 
Calicurgus, Anoplius, et Pompilus, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 397. 440. 
416 (1845). 
1. PoMPILUS FUSCUS. B.M. 
Sphex fusca, Linn. Faun. Suec. no. 1652; Syst. Nat.i.944. 169, 
& Cab. Mus. Linn. Soc. 
De Geer, Ins. ii. 822. t. 28. f. 6. 
Sphex viatiea, Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 294. 780. 
Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 349. 20; Ent. Syst. ii. 210. 47 2.» 
Rossi, Faun. Etrus. 1. 62. 814. 
Miiller, Prodr. Zool. Dan. 160. 1864. 
Pompilus viaticus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 246.49; Syst. 
Prez. p. 19]. 12. 
Panz. Faun. Germ. 65.16; Krit. Revis. 11. 118. 
Spin. Ins. Lig. 1. 68. 2. 
St. Farg. & Serv. Ency. Méth. x. 179. 1. 
