142 HYMENOPTERA. 
117. PoMPILUS VITRIPENNIS. B.M, 
Female. Length 9 lines.—Black : the flagellum fulvous ; the 
mandibles, palpi and clypeus dark rufo-piceous, the anterior 
margin of the latter rounded; the head and thorax thinly 
sprinkled with erect black pubescence; the posterior margin of 
the prothorax arcuate ; the metathorax rounded and finely trans- 
versely rugose ; wings deep fuscous, with a brilliant violet iri- 
descence ; the legs without spines; the second submarginal 
cell receiving the first recurrent nervure a little beyond the mid- 
dle. Abdomen with an obscure tinge of blue. 
Hab. Port Natal. 
118. PompiLus VINDICATUS. B.M. 
Female. Length 12 lmes.—Black : the flagellum, except the 
basal joint, yellow; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded, 
narrowly rufo-piceous ; the head and thorax covered with short 
black pubescence, most dense on the metathorax, which is 
rounded behind; wings deep brown, with a bright violet iri- 
descence ; the second submarginal cell quadrate, the transverse 
nervure which separates it from the third submarginal, waved ; 
the latter subquadrate and slightly narrowed towards the mar- 
ginal cell; the anterior tibize and tarsi have exteriorly a row of 
stout sharp spines; the intermediate tibize and tarsi have shorter 
spines, which are more scattered. Abdomen having a green 
tinge, longitudinally aciculate; beneath, of the same colour, and 
similarly sculptured. 
Hab. Port Natal; Congo. 
Specimens from Congo, and some from Port Natal, have the 
antenne black, except one, two or three of the apical jomts; no 
other difference has been detected. 
119. PoMPILUS IGNITUS. B.M. 
Female. Length 10 lines.—Black: the head, mandibles and 
antenne ferruginous ; the posterior margin of the prothorax ar- 
cuate, the mesothorax having on each side a longitudinal im- 
pressed line; the metathorax short and rounded, with a slightly 
impressed line in the centre ; wings yellow, their extreme base 
and apex fuscous ; the anterior femora, the apex of the inter- 
mediate and posterior pairs, the tibize and tarsi, reddish-yellow ; 
the anterior tarsi strongly ciliated externally, the tibiz sparingly 
and the tarsi thickly spose; the three apical segments of the 
abdomen red. 
Hab. Interior of South Africa. (Dr. Andrew Smith.) 
