Tlymenoptern from the Trdusvial. 349 



PompUus tihlaUsj King. 



PivnpHux tihiali^, K\\-V^, Svinb. Plivsic. 183 ^ pi. xxxk. fi,'. G; Dhlb. 

 ]Iyin. Kiir. i. (l^io) p. W) ; liiuloszk. Bull. Soc. N it. Moscoii, 1891, 

 p. 574, pi. xxiii. fig. 78. 



One male, Pretoria [Distant). 



Pompilus dichrous, Bmlld. 



Pompilua dichrous, BriiUt?, Hist. Nat. Ilea Cauiir. ii. (1840) p. 92, pi. iii. 

 fig. 21. 



One female, Joliannesbur^, 27th November, 1898. 



Pompilus Ignitus, Smith. 



Pompilus ignitus, Suiitb, Cat. Il3'in. B. M. iii. (ISoo) p. 142, 9- 



One female, Barberton [Hirrison), 



This species and Salius hasalis, Smith, bear a most 

 remarkable resemblance, but the armature of the legs separate.^ 

 them at once. 



Pompilus vindicatus, Smith. 



Pompilus vindicatus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iii. (185-5) p. 142, J . 



One female, three males, Zoutpansberg {K(essner) ; Fort 

 Johnston, Nyasaland [Eeudall) • Zomba (Rendall). 



Pompilus pectinipes, v. d. Linden. 



Pompilus pectinipes, v. d. Linden, Nouv. Mem. Ac. Sc.Brux. iv. (1827) 

 p. 341 ; Dhlb. Hym. Eur. i. (1845) p. 450, $ c^ ; Smith, Cat. Ilvm. 

 13. M.iii. (\f>op>) p. 123, $ ^J ; Tourn. Ent. Geuev. i. pts. 11, 12 (1890) 

 p. 208 ; Saunders, Hym. Acul. Brit. 1893, pp. 56 & 65, pi. ix. fig. 8. 



One male, Pretoria {Distant). 



This solitary specimen seems to me typical pectinipes, 

 with the pronotum arcuate posteriorly and the apical ventral 

 segment carinate. 



Pompilus Distanti, Bingh. 



Ilomonvtus cm-ulans, Sauss. (nee Lepel. Pompilus ccsrulans) Dist. Nat 

 in the Transvaal (1892), p. 213, ? . 



Four females, Pretoria [Distant). 



Pompilus ? latipes, sp. n. 



? . Black, the tibiae and tarsi of the anterior and the 

 femora, tibia^-, and tarsi of the posterior legs deep fulvous 

 yellow. Tlie head, thorax, basal iialf of the median segment 

 and the abdomen very minutely reticulate-punctate, but with 

 a shining gloss and devoid of pubescence ; apical half uf 



