142 HYMENOPTERA. 



117. POMPILUS VITRIPENNIS. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 lines. Black : the flagellum fulvous ; the 

 mandibles, palpi and clypeus dark rufo-piceous, the anterior 

 margin of the latter rounded; the head and thorax thinly 

 sprinkled with erect black pubescence ; the posterior margin of 

 the prothorax arcuate ; the metathorax rounded and finely trans- 

 versely rugose ; wings deep fuscous, with a brilliant violet iri- 

 descence ; the legs without spines ; the second submarginal 

 cell receiving the first recurrent nervure a little beyond the mid- 

 dle. Abdomen with an obscure tinge of blue. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



118. POMPILUS VINDICATUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 12 lines. Black : the flagellum, except the 

 basal joint, yellow ; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded, 

 narrowly rufo-piceous ; the head and thorax covered with short 

 black pubescence, most dense on the metathorax, which is 

 rounded behind; wings deep brown, with a bright violet iri- 

 descence ; the second submarginal cell quadrate, the transverse 

 nervure which separates it from the third submarginal, waved ; 

 the latter subquadrate and slightly narrowed towards the mar- 

 ginal cell ; the anterior tibiae and tarsi have exteriorly a row of 

 stout sharp spines ; the intermediate tibiae and tarsi have shorter 

 spines, which are more scattered. Abdomen having a green 

 tinge, longitudinally aciculate ; beneath, of the same colour, and 

 similarly sculptured. 



Hab. Port Natal ; Congo. 



Specimens from Congo, and some from Port Natal, have the 

 antennae black, except one, two or three of the apical joints; no 

 other difference has been detected. 



119. POMPILUS IGNITUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black : the head, mandibles and 

 antennae ferruginous ; the posterior margin of the prothorax ar- 

 cuate, the mesothorax having on each side a longitudinal im- 

 pressed line ; the metathorax short and rounded, with a slightly 

 impressed line in the centre ; wings yellow, their extreme base 

 and apex fuscous ; the anterior femora, the apex of the inter- 

 mediate and posterior pairs, the tibiae and tarsi, reddish-yellow ; 

 the anterior tarsi strongly ciliated externally, the tibiae sparingly 

 and the tarsi thickly spinose ; the three apical segments of the 

 abdomen red. 



Hab. Interior of South Africa. (Dr. Andrew Smith.) 



