HYMENOPTERA. 165 
apical margins of the segments having narrow fascia of white 
pubescence. 
Hab. New Holland. 
230. PoMPILUS ORNATIPENNIS. B.M. 
Female. Length 8 lines.—Black: the antenna, palpi, and 
mandibles in the middle ferruginous, the scape fuscous above ; 
the legs ferruginous, coxa fuscous ; wings yellow, their apical 
margins having a fuscous stripe uniting with a transverse band 
which emanates from the marginal cell, a fuscous oblong stain 
occupies the apex of the interno-medial and base of the first 
discoidal cell; metathorax short and rounded, transversely striated 
posteriorly ; the first segment and basal half of the second seg- 
ment of the abdomen ferruginous. 
Hab. New Holland. 
231. PomprLus PELTERII. B.M. 
Pompilus Pelterii, Guér. Voy. Cog. Zool. pt. 2. p. 257; Atlas, 
TaSenO1 9s tees 
Hab. Amboyna. 
232. POMPILUS PICTIFRONS. B.M. 
Male. Length 5-6 lines.—Black : an abbreviated line at the 
inner orbits of the eyes, not extending to their vertex, the maxil- 
lary palpi, mandibles in the middle, a line on each side of the 
labrum, a spot above, and the clypeus, yellow, the latter having 
a black bell-shaped spot in the centre ; a minute yellow spot on 
the scape, the flagellum bright fulvous beneath, the tibia, tarsi, 
and tips of the femora bright fulvous ; wings subhyaline, tinged 
with yellow, having a pale transverse fuscous fascia on the supe- 
rior pair, crossing from, but not so wide as, the marginal cell ; the 
apical margins of the wings have a narrow fuscous cloud, the 
nervures ferruginous, towards the apex of the wings they be- 
come fuscuus; the metathorax rounded behind and slightly 
roughened. 
Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 
233. PoMPILUS PICTIPENNIS. B.M. 
Female. Length & lines.—Black, covered with a fine seri- 
ceous silvery pile ; the antennz ferruginous, the scape and two 
or three of the apical joints above more or less fuscous ; the 
tibize and tarsi ferruginous, the claws rufo-piceous ; wings sub- 
