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which I have not seen, according to Shuckard, has a spot on 

 each side of the fourth segment of the abdomen, in addition to 

 those on the two preceding segments. 



Male. Length 2f-4 J lines. This sex differs in having a silvery 

 pubescence on the face ; the second segment of the abdomen 

 frequently wants the white spots, whilst those on the third form 

 a subinterrupted band; sometimes, but rarely, all the spots, 

 except the terminal one on the seventh segment, are obsolete ; 

 beneath, the sixth segment is emarginate, and the seventh has 

 a central longitudinal carina. 



This species certainly prefers situations on the coast, and I have 

 never found it in any other locality : it has been taken at Rams- 

 down, Hants ; at Sandown Bay, Luccomb Chine, and the Land- 

 slip at Bonchurch, in the Isle of Wight; at Southend and at 

 Deal. It appears about the middle of July, and is found until 

 the end of September ; the species is local, but very plentiful at 

 Deal, where the black-legged variety is not uncommon. It oc- 

 curs also at Lowestoft, Suffolk. 



Div. II. The anterior tarsi simple ; the intermediate and pos- 

 terior tibice serrated exteriorly. Priocnemis. Sp. 10-17. 



10. Pompilus (Priocnemis) sepicola. 



P. niger, glaber ; ubdomine basi ferrugineo, alis fuscis. 



Sphex fusca, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 349. 19 ; Ent. Syst. ii. 210. 46 (nee 

 Linn.) ? . 



Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. 62. 813. 



Pompilus fuscus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 246. 3; Syst. Piez. 189. 

 11. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 65. 15 ; Krit. Revis. ii. 118. 



Van d. Lind. Obs. i. 336. 33 <J ? . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. 64. 15. 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 437. 1. 

 Priocnemis fuscus, Schiodte, Mon. Pomp. Kroy. Tidsskr. i. 328. 4. 



Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 102. 46. 



Wesm. Hym. Foss. Belg. 61. 10. 

 Calicurgus fuscus, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 412. 22. 

 Porapilus serripes, Dahlb. Exercit. Hym. 61. 3 ? 

 Pompilus sepicola, Smith, Cat. Brit. Hym. 14. 16. 



Female. Length 5-7 lines. Black ; the head shining, delicately 

 punctured and slightly pubescent. Thorax delicately punc- 

 tured and slightly pubescent ; the hinder margin of the pro- 



