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not gradually rounded, but has an oblique slope on the upper half, as 

 has also the third ; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly behind ; 

 the second almost in the middle ; the transverse median nervure is 

 received distinctly in front of the transverse basal ; the accessory ner- 

 vure in the hind v\rings is almost interstitial. On the abdomen the 

 first, the second and the basal fourth of the third are rufous. 



POMPILUS SOLLICITNAS, Sp. nov. 



Niger, facie, clypeo, orbitis oculorum, prothorace, mesonoto cum 

 scutello, pleurisque rufis ; pedibus rufis, tarsis fuscis ; abdominis apic© 

 flavo ; alls hyalinis, a pice furaatis. 



Long : 6-7 m.m. $. 



Habitat ; Simla. 



Antennffi short, thick, distinctly tapering towards the apex; rufous 

 darker above and underneath towards the apex ; the scape paler, mora 

 yellowish in tint. Head dark-rufous • the greater part of the vertex 

 black ; the front and vertex thickly covered with white pubescence. 

 Eyes large, slightly converging above. Ocelli more prominent than 

 usual ; the hinder pair are separated from each other by a distinctly 

 greater distance than they are from the eyes. Thorax ferruginous • the 

 median segment, the parts bordering the sides of the scutellum and 

 the mesonotum, black 5 it is smooth, shining and thickly covered with 

 a white pubescence. Scutellum prominent, narrowed towards the 

 apex, which is rounded. Themetanotum is thickly covered wi'h white 

 pubescence. Wings clear hyaline, the apex with a distinct cloud, 

 which commences shortly beyond the third transverse cubital nervure, 

 but does not reach to the extreme apex, which is hyaline ; the third 

 cellule is distinctly shorter than the second by about one- fourth ; the 

 third transverse cubital nervure has the upper half obliquely curved, 

 which makes the top of the cellule narrower tban the bottom ; the 

 first recurrent nervnre is received at the base of the apical third ; the 

 second in the middle ; the transverse basal nervure is interstitial. 

 Legs coloured like the thorax ; the hinder tibiae and tarsi infascated. 

 The tibise and tarsi are distinctly, but sparsely, spined, Abdomen 

 black ; the basal ventral segment rufous • the apical segment is whitish- 

 yellow. 



Comes nearest to P. lascivus, Cam. That species has only the upper 

 side of the thorax red ; the basal half of the wings is hyaline ; the 

 metanotum is not black, and it is transversely striated ; it is also a 

 larger species. 



