432 LT.-OOI/. 0. T. BINGHAM ON THl [Mar. 17, 



I have examined the types of P. pedestris and P. canifrons. 

 Smith, both in the British Museum, and find that they belong to 

 the genus Pompilus and not to Prioe>iemis=Salius, Cam. (apud 

 Kohl). 



194. POMPIITJS AEEOGANS, Smith. 



Pompilus arrogans. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 187, 

 3 ?. 



Pundaloya {Green coll.). 



Originally received from Japan, this species seems to have a 

 wdde range ; I have found it fairly common in Sikkim and Burma. 

 There are two specimens in Mr. Green's collection. 



195. Pompilus ateopos, Smith. 



Pompilus atropos. Smith, Desc. New Spec. Hym. B. M. IKi, 

 22 $ ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iv. 

 (1891), 480. 



Pundaloya {Oreen coll.). 



196. Pompilus LtfoiDULTrs (Saussure). 



Homonotus lucidulus, Sauss. Hym. d. Novara-Eeise, 50, 1 5 . 

 Pompilus lucidulus. Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. 

 Soo. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 459, 26. 



197. Pompilus ignobilis, Saussure. 



Pompilus ignoUlis, Sauss. Hym. d. Novara-Eeise, 60, 3 $ ; Cam. 

 Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 459, 

 22. 



198. Pompilus ignicoloe, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 5.) 



$ . L. 7 millim. Exp. 12 millim. 



Head and thorax in front red, metathqrax, legs and abdomen 

 black, wings hyaline with a faint fuscous cloud towards the 

 apex. 



Head broad, subglobular, and opaque red, with fine close punctures ; 

 the clypeus twice as broad as high, its anterior margin narrowly 

 smootii, shining, and recurved ; front slightly convex, covered, as is 

 the clypeus and the cheeks behind the eyes, with a fine sericeous 

 silvery pile, only seen in certain lights; antennjD fuscous; the 

 scape in front red ; thorax, the pro- and mesothorax above, and 

 the scutellum and postscutellum red ; the metathorax, sides of the 

 thorax, and pectus black; the prothorax rounded in front, posteriorly 

 arched ; the scutellum and postscutellum compressed laterally and 

 prominent ; the metathorax with a rounded slope to thQ apex ; the 

 whole of the thorax very finely and closely punctured ; wings 

 hyaline, the nervures fuscous, the anterior wings ligbtly infuscated 

 from beyond the 2nd cubital cell, the extreme apex narrowly 

 hyaline, the apex of the posterior wing also faintly clouded ; legs 

 black, the anterior femora, tibiae, and tarsi testaceous red, the claws 



