548 Mr. Edward Saunders on 



$ . Bone, on Euphorbia paralias, 23. viii. 97. 

 A. E. E. 



POMPILUS COCCINEIPES, n. sp. 



Niger, subopacus, mandibulis ante apicem, feniorum dimidio 

 apicali, tibiisque runs prothorace postice arcuatum emarginato, 

 metatarsis anticis spinis tribus nigris longis armatis. Alis fuscis, 

 cellula cubitali tertia late trapezina unguiculis bifidis. 



$ . Kather a short and robust species. Black, dull, clothed with 

 a very fine inconspicuous purplish pile ; head clothed with short 

 black hairs, distance between the eyes and mandibles very short ; 

 clypeus extremely finely rugulose, slightly rounded in front, irre- 

 gularly punctured above its apical margin ; mandibles red towards 

 the apex, 3rd joint of flagellum about two-thirds as long as the 2nd, 

 margins of eyes posteriorly, and a very small spot on the anterior 

 margin near the sinus, pale. Pronotum well-developed, clothed with 

 short black hairs in front, its posterior margin arcuate ; on its 

 anterior declivous portion there are signs of pale scale-like hairs, as 

 in rufipes, etc. Mesonotum rather wide, wings dark brown, third 

 submarginal cell at the top about half as wide as at the bottom, 

 posterior nervure of hind wing joining the median beyond the branch 

 of the latter, metanotum behind the post-scutellum clothed with a 

 dense brownish down, propodeum slightly hairy and with a few 

 scale-like hairs at the base and apex. Abdomen with a few long 

 and a few scattered scale-like hairs on its basal segment, apical 

 segment with only a few fine hairs. Legs red with the coxae, front 

 pair of which are clothed with long hairs, the base of the femora and 

 the tarsi black, calcaria piceous or reddish, in one specimen the 

 metatarsi are also more or less red. Claws bifid. 



Long. 10-11 m.m. 



$ 1. Biskra, near railway, kilometre 199, 3. v. 95. A. E. E. 

 $ 1. La Calle, sand-hills west of the town. 15. vii. 96. 

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POMPILUS PICTICFvUS, n. sp. 



$ . Prsecedenti similis, sed minor, mandibulis ante apicem, pedum 

 posticorum femoribus basibusque tibiarum, rufis, alis anticis cellula 

 tertia cubitali triangulari, unguiculis simplicibus. 



Very like the preceding in general appearance, but smaller, the 

 clypeus slightly emarginate in front. Margins of the eyes con- 

 colorous, wings less infuscated, their apices darker, 3rd submarginal 

 cell triangular, posterior nervure of hind wings uniting with the 



