POM.PILUS. 



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with silvery- white pile ; the anterior margin of the clypeus and the 

 orbits of the eyes, except their summit, with a narrow yellowish- 

 white line. The hind margin of the prothorax, a line on the 

 mesothorax, at the base of the scutellum, and a spot on the 

 tegulae whitish; the apex of the metathorax and the coxa) outside 

 with silvery pile ; the posterior tibiae with their apex ferruginous 

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

 terior pair at the base of the first submarginal cell, the fascia as 

 wide as the first discoidal cell; the apex of the wings fuscous 

 beyond the third submarginal cell. Abdomen with the first segment 

 covered with silvery pile ; a slightly interrupted narrow pale yel- 

 low fascia at the basal margin of the third segment, and another at 

 the base of the fifth. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



42. Pompilus latus. 



Female. Length 9-11 lines. — Ferruginous, with black markings and 

 fulvous wings. Head with a small ovate black spot between the eyes 

 and the ocelli ; three or four of the apical joints of the antennae 

 black, and also tips of the mandibles ; the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus emarginate. Thorax with the sides and beneath, the anterior 

 coxae behind, and the intermediate and posterior pairs entirely, 

 black ; the metathorax concave at the apex ; wings fulvous, the 

 nervures ferruginous. The apical margins of the first and second 

 segments black ; sometimes the third narrowly so. 



Hab. Uruguay. 



43. Pompilus tuber culatus. 



Female. Length 7| lines. — Ferruginous ; wings flavo-hyaline, the 

 anterior pair with two narrow fuscous fasciae. The antennae fuscous 

 towards the apex; the clypeus somewhat produced, truncate an- 

 teriorly, with the lateral angles rounded. The hinder margin 

 of the prothorax rounded ; the metathorax with two tuber- 

 cles at each lateral margin, beyond the second the metathorax 

 is obliquely truncate ; a pale fuscous fascia crosses the anterior 

 wings, traversing the nervure at the base of the first submarginal 

 cell ; a second narrow fascia crosses from the middle of the mar- 

 ginal cell ; the third submarginal longer than the second, and nar- 

 rowed to about half its length towards the marginal ; legs ferrugi- 

 nous, with ferruginous spines. Abdomen with the apical margins of 

 the first, second, and sometimes of the third segment black. 



Hab. Mendoza. 



44. Pompilus rubricatus. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Ferruginous; the wings flavo-hyaline. 



