430 LT.-COI,. C. T. BINGHAM ON EXOTIC FOSSORIAL 



segment short and truncated at the apex, the truncation 

 obscurely transversely striated ; legs stout, spiuose, claws bifid ; 

 abdomen sessile, obscurely pruinose. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 black, the antennae and the tibise and tarsi of all the legs dull 

 piceous red ; wings fuscous, with little or no effulgence, the apex 

 of the radial cell acutely angled, the 2nd and 3rd cubital cells 

 subequal ; abdomen with the posterior margins of the segments 

 narrowly testaceous. 



2 . Length 15-19 millim. ; exp. 28-36 millim. 



Mab. Sikkim ; Tenasserim. 



The only two species this could be confounded with are P. cani- 

 frons, Smith, and P. perplexus, Smith, but the former has the 

 " metathorax smooth, rounded behind,^' and the latter is a smaller, 

 slighter insect, with much darker wings. From both species 

 P. Daedalus dij^ers in the colour of the antennae, tibiae, and tarsi. 



POMPILUS INFESTUS, Sp, nOV. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth ; the clypeus convex, 

 transversely rectangular, its sides rounded ; the front of the face 

 flat, with an abbreviated impressed line from the anterior ocellus 

 to between the bases of the antennae ; median segment short, 

 rounded posteriorly with a steep slope to its apex ; legs stout, the 

 tibiae and tarsi with a few scattered spines, claws unidentate. 

 Ferruginous red ; the wings flavo-hyaline, broadly fuscescent at 

 the apex, nervures brown, tegulae ferruginous ; the clypeus, the 

 inner margin of the eyes, a line on the posterior border of the 

 pronotum,a spot on the posterior tibiae at base, the basal two joints 

 of the intermediate and posterior tarsi, and the 3rd and 4bh 

 segments of the abdomen, rich chrome-yellow. 



$ . Length 15 millim. ; exp. 25 millim. 



Hah. India. 



The type and only specimen is in the collection of the British 

 Museum. This is a very distinct species — a true Pompilus with 

 the colouring of a Ceropales. 



POMPILUS UNIFASCIATUS. (PI. XIX. figs. 4, 4a.) 



Fompilus uni/asciatus, Smith, Cat. Hym. iii. p. 145. 133, $ c? ; 

 id. Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), p. 352. 8. 



JPompilus exortivus. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 188.7,$ . 



Prom a comparison of the descriptions and of a specimen in 

 the Museum collection from Shanghai labelled Powap^Yws exortivus 



