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in certain lights. The clypeus with changeable silvery pile, its 

 anterior margin rounded. The hinder margin of the prothorax 

 rounded • the metathorax truncate ; wings fuscous, and with a 

 slight violet iridescence, their apex with a darker border beyond 

 the enclosed cells ; the third submarginal cell petiolated ; the pos- 

 terior tibiae bright ferruginous. 



Hab. Trebizond. 



27. Pompilus mitis. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head, thorax, and coxae black ; legs and 

 abdomen ferruginous. The mandibles, clypeus, and a line at the 

 inner orbits of the eyes white ; the scape white beneath, the fla- 

 gellum ferruginous beneath. The posterior margin of the pro- 

 thorax and the tubercles white ; the sides of the thorax, the pectus, 

 coxae, and femora beneath with silvery pile, bright only in certain 

 lights ; wings hyaline, with a broad fuscous cloud crossing the an- 

 terior pair beyond the stigma, leaving the tip of the wings white. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining, the extreme base black. 



Hab. Bombay district. 



28. Pompilus ephippiatus. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, with the pro- and mesothorax and 

 scutellum ferruginous ; wings fusco-hyaline, the hinder pair palest, 

 the anterior pair bordered with dark fuscous beyond the marginal 

 cell. The clypeus with silvery pile; a narrow pale line at the 

 inner orbits of the eyes, also an abbreviated one behind them, the 

 margin of the vertex ferruginous. The metathorax, the sides 

 beneath, and also the legs with a changeable silvery pile. The 

 apical margin of the abdominal segments with narrow fasciae of 

 silvery pile, which on the second, third, and fourth segments is 

 produced into an angular shape in the middle. 



Hab. Bombay Presidency. 



29. Pompilus multipictus. 



Male. Length 6^ lines. — Yariegated with black, yellow, and ferru- 

 ginous. Head black on the vertex, and with a broad stripe down 

 to the antennae ; the face otherwise yellow, as well as the man- 

 dibles and a broad line behind the eyes; the antennae ferruginous, 

 with the scape yellow in front. The prothorax, mesothorax, and 

 the pectus black ; the metathorax and legs ferruginous ; the hinder 

 and lateral margins of the prothorax broadly yellow ; a bifurcate 

 mark on the mesothorax, the tegulae, and a narrow line over them, 

 the scutellum, anterior and intermediate coxae beneath, as well as 

 the tarsi and anterior tibiae in front and the posterior pair above, 



