56 POMPILUS PECT1NIPES. 



Pompilus gibbus, Schiodte, Mon. Pomp. Kroy. Tidsskr. i. 336. 6. 

 Brutte, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. iii. 92. 57. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 435. 30. 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger. iii. 248. 



Female. Length 3-5 lines. Black and shining ; head delicately 

 punctured and slightly pubescent, tips of the mandibles ferru- 

 ginous. Thorax short, the sides and metathorax covered with 

 a fine griseous pile ; a very slight longitudinal impressed line 

 at the base of the metathorax, which is very obtuse and deli- 

 cately punctured; the wings slightly coloured, their apical 

 margins with a broad fuscous band ; the third submarginal cell 

 much narrowed towards the marginal ; the anterior tarsi slightly 

 ciliated, and the intermediate and posterior tibire with a double 

 row of spines. Abdomen : the first, second, and base of the 

 third segment ferruginous, with their apical margins sometimes 

 slightly piceous. 



Male. Length 2J-3 -J lines. Closely resembles the female, but 

 is of a much more slender form ; the face covered with silvery 

 pubescence ; the anterior tarsi not ciliated, the legs less spinose ; 

 the metathorax and abdomen more covered with silky pile, and 

 more elongate. 



This is an exceedingly abundant species, and is universally 

 distributed : it preys upon spiders. 



3. Pompilus pectinipes. 



P. niger ; abdomine ferrugineo, apice nigro ; alis anticis apicibus 

 fuscis ; antennis crassis. 



Sphex pectinipes, Linn. Faun. Suec. no. 1654, 8f Cab. Mus. Linn. 



Soc. $ . 

 Aporus bicolor, St. Farg. Sf Serv. Encycl. Meth. x. 185. 1 (var.). 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 721. 1. 

 Aporus dubius, Van d. Lind. Obs.i. 351. 4 ? 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 37. 21. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 49. 2. 

 Evagethes bicolor, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 270. 1 (var.). 

 Pompilus pectinipes, Van d. Lind. Obs.i. 341. 39 ? . 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 68. 33. 



St. Farg.' Hym. iii. 433. 26. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 49. 17 ? $ . 

 Pompilus crassicornis, Shuck. Foss. Hym. 63. 14 ?. 



Dahlb. Lisp. 10. 39. 

 Pompilus difformis, Schiodte, Dispos. 27. 8. t. 4. f. 4. 



Female. Length 3-4 lines. Black ; the head and thorax slightly 

 shining ; the clypeus with a little silvery pubescence ; the an- 



