HYMENOPTERA. 13d 
81. PoMPILUS ERRANS. B.M. 
Female. Length 11-15 lines.—Chestnut-brown : ihe tips of 
the mandibles and a transverse line on the vertex enclosing the 
stemmata black; the head and thorax beneath, the coxe, tro- 
chanters, and basal half of the femora, fuscous or black; the 
metathorax black, rounded behind, transversely striated and 
having a central longitudinal impressed line ; wings yellow, the 
nervures pale ferruginous, the base of the wings fusco-ferru- 
ginous, the apical margins having a dark fuscous stripe; the 
_ first recurrent nervure received by the second submarginal cell 
very near its apex, but not uniting with the transverse nervure. 
Abdomen punctured, the apical margins of the segments having 
fuscous faseize, which are continuous and broadest on the venter. 
Male. Length 10 lines.—Very closely resembling the female, 
but the transverse stripe on the vertex is broader and emits a 
broad stain, which terminates at the insertion of the antenne ; 
the mesothorax is fuscous anteriorly and at the sides, the basal 
and two or three of the apical segments of the abdomen also 
fuscous. 
Hab. Algeria; Albania. 
82. PoMPILUS FRATERNUS. B.M. 
Female. Length 10 lines.—Head, antenne, pro- and meso- 
thorax, scutellum and post-seutellum, ferrugmous; the meta- 
thorax, thorax beneath, coxee, trochanters and base of the femora, 
black ; the apical joints of the tarsi fuscous ; metathorax rounded 
behind and transversely strongly strigose, having a central lon- 
gitudinal impressed line ; wings yellow, nervures pale ferruginous, 
the apical margins of the wings have a dark fuscous stripe; the 
second submarginal cell receivmg the first recurrent nervure a 
little beyond the middle. Abdomen impunctate, fuscous or 
black ; the second segment ferruginous, the first having usually 
a central ferrugimous spot. 
Hab. Tunis. 
This species closely resembles P. erraticus, but the neuration 
of the wings is different, and the abdomen is not punctured ; the 
second submarginal cell is obliquely square. 
83. PoMPILUS OCHROCERUS. 
Entypus ochrocerus, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 35. 19. 
Hab. Algeria. 
