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metathorax and of the prothorax maculated with patches of 
golden pile; the wings dark fuscous; abdomen ferruginous, 
covered with fine hoary pile. 
164. PomMpILUS VARIUS. 
Pompilus varius, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 189. 7. 
Hab. South America. 
165. PompiILuS RUSTICUS. 
Pompilus rusticus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 199. 59. 
Hab. South America, 
166. PoMPILUS PULVILLATUS. 
Female. Length 63 lines.—Black, with a fine thin sericeous 
pile, which is most dense on the metathorax, cox, and sides of 
the thorax, and has a pale golden brilliancy ; it is very dense on 
the face and silvery-bright ; the clypeus marginate, and having 
a transverse row of punctures; the mandibles dark rufo-piceous 
towards their apex, the palpi fuscous ; the antennz slender ; the 
intermediate and posterior tibie serrate exteriorly; the tarsi 
have the pulvillus very large and much produced ; wings hyaline, 
the superior pair having a narrow dark fascia crossing at the base 
of the first and second discoidal cells, and a much broader one 
towards their apex enclosing the second and third submarginal 
cells ; the metathorax rounded. Abdomen subpetiolate. 
Hab. South America. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
167. PoMPILUS MILITARIS. 
Pompilus militaris, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 199. 62. 
Hab. South America. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 
168. PoMpILUS FEMORATUS. 
Pompilus femoratus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 190. 13. 
Hab. South America. 
169. PomPILUS CAPITATUS. 
Pompilus eapitatus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 188. 5. 
Pompilus senilis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 189. 6. var. ? 
Hab. South America. 
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