HYMENOPTERA. 145 



the base of the second segment thickly punctured, beneath it is 

 rugose. 



Hab. India. 



131. POMPILUS PEDUNCULATUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Head and thorax black, the face 

 densely clothed with silvery pile, the labrum, mandibles and 

 palpi ferruginous. Thorax : the posterior margin of the pro- 

 thorax rounded; the metathorax finely transverse-striate and 

 having a central longitudinal faintly impressed line ; wings 

 fuscous, a subhyaline spot in the second discoidal cell ; the legs 

 ferruginous, the coxae black, the tibiae and tarsi very slightly 

 spinose. Abdomen ferruginous, the petiole black. 



Hab. India. 



132. POMPILUS TINCTUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black : the head and thorax with an 

 obscure green tinge ; the face covered with silvery pile. Thorax 

 thinly covered with short hoary pile, most dense on the sides of the 

 metathorax, the latter having a central longitudinal impressed 

 line ; wings hyaline, the nervures testaceous ; the anterior and 

 intermediate femora in front and the posterior pair entirely fer- 

 ruginous ; the legs destitute of spines, the calcaria testaceous. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining, covered with a fine, thin, hoary 

 pile ; the apical margins of the segments narrowly testaceous. 



Hab. India. 



133. POMPILUS UNIFASCIATUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. Black : head a little wider than 

 the thorax, reddish-yellow, the antennae, mandibles and palpi of 

 the same colour. Thorax : above yellow ; the mesothorax has its 

 anterior margin more or less black; the metathorax without 

 punctures or striae, covered with short pale silky pubescence ; 

 the anterior and intermediate femora, except their extreme base, 

 the apex of the posterior pair, the tibiae and tarsi, reddish -yellow ; 

 the apical joints of the tarsi black ; wings reddish-yellow, their 

 apical margins fuscous; the second submarginal cell a little 

 wider than the third, which is slightly restricted towards the 

 marginal; the first recurrent nervure received by the second 

 submarginal cell near its apex. Abdomen : the basal margin of 

 the second segment with a narrow yellow fascia ; the apical 

 segment reddish-yellow ; the yellow fasciae on the abdomen 

 sometimes obscure. 



The male closely resembles the female, but has the head larger, 



