136 HYMENOPTERA. 
84. PoMPILUS RUBESCENS. 
Female. Length 12 lines.—Obscure rufo-fuscous, destitute 
of pubescence ; the tips of the mandibles and anterior margin 
of the clypeus black. The posterior margin of the clypeus nar- 
rowly black ; the mesothorax smooth, and having on each side 
a longitudinal impressed line, not quite extending to the anterior 
margin; the metathorax transversely rugose-striate ; wings ob- 
scure rufo-fuscous, the second submarginal cell subquadrate, 
receiving the first recurrent nervure at the apex; the third sub- 
marginal cell about the same length as the second ; the legs 
thickly spinose, the posterior tibiz strongly serrated. Abdo- 
men shining, delicately punctured, the basal segment impunc- 
tate. 
Hab. Tripoli. 
85. PoMPILUS AUDAX. B.M.* 
Female. Length 12-15 lines. — Fusco-rufous, the antenne, 
clypeus and mandibles pale ferrugimous; a transverse fuscous 
line on the vertex ; the thorax beneath, the metathorax above, 
the coxze, trochanters, and femora black, the latter ferruginous 
at their tips; the tibize and tarsi thickly spmose, the posterior 
tibize strongly serrated ; wings yellow, slightly fuscous at their 
base, their apical margins having a dark fuscous border; the 
second submarginal cell oblong, receiving the first recurrent ner- 
vure nearly at its apex; the metathorax transversely rugose. 
Abdomen covered with a fine sericeous pile and delicately punc- 
tured, the apical margins dark fuscous, the apical segment 
clothed with fulvous pubescence. 
The male is coloured the same as the female, and has the 
legs similarly spined. 
Hab. North Africa; Albania. 
86. PoMPILUS CLYPEATUS. 
Pompilus clypeatus, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. iv. no. 26. t. 39. f. 14. 
Hab. Egypt. 
87. PoMPILUS FUMIGATUS. 
Pompilus fumigatus, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. iv. no. 19. t. 39. f. 7. 
Hab. Egypt. 
88. PoMPILUS NIGRITULUS. 
Pompilus nigritulus, Klug, Symb. Phys. dec. iv. no. 20, t. 39. f. 8. 
Hab. Egypt. 
