150 POMP1LIDJS. 



wings is also different, the third submarginal cell being more tri- 

 angular, and receiving the recurrent nervure nearer to its base. 



32. Pompilus alienus. 



Female. Length 6| lines. — Black, opaque, and having more or less 

 of purple bloom in certain lights ; wings fuscous, the posterior pair 

 palest towards their base ; the third submarginal cell petiolated. 

 The clypeus and lower portion of the face covered with bright 

 silvery pile. The anterior angles of the prothorax, the sides 

 beneath, and the coxse and femora beneath pilose, very bright 

 in certain lights ; the metathorax truncate. Abdomen with some- 

 what obscure cinereous fasciae at the base of the first, second, and 

 third segments. 



Hah. Japan. 



33. Pompilus propinquus. 



Female. Length 5| lines. — Black ; the wings dark brown, the ab- 

 domen with ferruginous markings. Head thinly sprinkled with 

 black hairs ; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded. The 

 posterior margin of the prothorax subangulated ; the meta- 

 thorax smooth, convex, and truncated, and with a slightly im- 

 pressed longitudinal line; the third submarginal cell triangular; 

 the posterior femora ferruginous, with the base and apex black. 

 A broad interrupted ferruginous band on the basal segment of the 

 abdomen, narrowed inwardly ; the second segment ferruginous, its 

 apical margin black, the black band widens in the middle ; the third 

 segment has two large transverse lunate spots at its base ; beneath 

 black. 



Hob. North Japan. 



This species is the representative of the Pompilus fuscus of Europe. 



34. Pompilus elegans. 



Female. Length 9| 

 ruginous ; wings subhyaline, the apical margin of the anterior pair 

 bordered with fuscous beyond the marginal cell. The anterior 

 margin of the clypeus emarginate, with a broad fascia of bright 

 silvery pile, which is continued up the inner orbits of the eyes 

 a little higher than the insertion of the antennae; the surface 

 beneath the pile is ferruginous, and this colour is continued round the 

 orbits of the eyes ; there is a similar ferruginous fascia on the hinder 

 margin of the prothorax. The metathorax with bright silvery 

 pile, as well as the sides, beneath, and the coxae and femora beneath ; 

 a deep longitudinal central channel on the metathorax, and a short 



