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second straight, oblique ; the third from shortly below the middle sharply, 
obliquely bent towards the base of the cellule ; the first recurrent nervure 
is received close to the apex, the second shortly beyond the middle of the 
cellule, and is broadly rounded outwardly ; the transverse median nervure 
is received distinctly beyond the transverse basal ; the accessory nervure 
in the hind wings received very shortly before the cubitus ; the hind ocelli 
are separated from each other by about half the distance they are from 
the eyes ; head and thorax covered with black hair ; claws with a stout 
basal tooth, shorter than the other ; on the hinder legs this tooth is shorter 
and more slender. Male. 
Length, 12-15 mm. 
Irene. November. Petersburg. November. 
Pompilus Fab. 
Pompilus bretoni Guer. 
Mag. de Zool, XIII, 114, 4, PI. 115, f. 2; Kohl, Denkschr. d. 
Mathem-Naturwiss. Klasse Akad. d. Wissen, 1906, 100; Cameron, Sjostedt’s 
Kilimand. — Meru Exped. Hymen., 252. 
Pompilus vindicatus Smith. — Cat. Hym. Ins. iii, 142. 118 ; Cameron 
Records Alb. Mus., i, 217 ; Bingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1902, 349. 
I have an example of this widely spread African species from the 
Transvaal, and Mr. Janse has taken examples at Rietfontein in September, 
and at Pretoria, which have only the apical six or seven joints of the 
antennae rufous below, while in the type the flagellum is entirely rufous. 
The outer orbits may be lined with rufous. 
Pompilus ancyloneurus, sp. n. 
Black ; the antennae reddish- vermilion ; the head, except the centre 
of the vertex and the front broadly, the mark roundly narrowed below, 
the apical half of the pronotum, tegulax, apex of mesonotum, scutellum, 
apical two segments of the abdomen, the fore femora except at the base, 
the apical half of the middle, the apex of the posterior, and the tarsi, 
ferruginous ; the apices of the tarsal joints narrowly black ; wings yellowish- 
hyaline ; the apex from the second transverse cubital nervure, the radial 
cellule from the middle of the second abscissa of the radius, from shortly 
beyond the second recurrent nervure, and more broadly along the posterior 
margin, and about the apical fourth of the posterior wings fuscous, slightly 
tinged with violaceous ; the second abscissa of the radius hardly one-fourth 
longer than the third ; the first transverse cubital nervure almost straight, 
obliquely sloped ; the second roundly curved backwards, the posterior 
part straight, oblique ; the anterior half of the third obliquely sloped 
towards the base ; the first recurrent nervure received in the apical fourth ; 
the second in the middle of the cellule ; the transverse median nervure 
interstitial ; the accessory nervure in hind wings received shortly beyond 
the cubitus ; hinder ocelli separated from each other by about the same 
distance as they are from the eyes. Apex of clypeus transverse, with 
the sides broadly rounded ; apex of pronotum angled in the middle ; 
