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pile ; pubescence sparse and black ; apical slope of metanotum finely, 
distinctly, and closely striated ; abdomen as long as the head and thorax 
united, a little wider than the latter ; pygidium finely, closely punctured ; 
tibial and tarsal spines stout, the tarsi with the spines much more numerous 
and stouter than they are on the tibiae ; they are longer on the apices 
of the joints ; on the fore tarsi they are longer than on the others. 
Pompilus commodus, sp. n. 
Black ; a narrow, yellowish- white line on the apex of the pronotum ; 
the spurs brown ; wings hyaline, a fuscous-violaceous cloud on the apex> 
commencing at the apex of the radial cellule ; the nervures and stigma 
black ; the second cubital cellule large ; the second abscissa of the radius 
almost four times longer than the third ; the first recurrent nervure received 
in the apical fourth of the cellule ; the transverse basal nervure inter- 
stitial ; the accessory nervure in the hind wings received before the cubitus ; 
pronotum, head, and coxae covered with moderately long, the metanotum 
more densely with longer white hair ; hinder ocelli separated from the 
eyes by almost the same distance as they are from each other. Male. 
Length, 10 mm. 
Warmberg, Zoutpansberg District. November. 
Very similar to P. longihirtus, but readily known by the white line 
on the pronotum, and by the difference in the alar neuration ; eyes almost 
incised on the inner side ; apex of clypeus broadly rounded ; the long 
spur of the hind tibiae two-thirds of the length of the metatarsus. 
Pompilus longihirtus, sp. n. 
Black ; the mandibles, except the teeth, and the underside of the 
basal three joints of the flagellum, dull-rufous ; the tibiae and tarsi 
brownish ; the spines brownish ; wings hyaline, a curved cloud beyond 
the radius ; the stigma and nervures black ; the second abscissa of the 
radius fully one-third longer than the third ; the transverse median nervure 
interstitial ; the first recurrent nervure received at the base of the apical 
third of the cellule, the second very shortly beyond the middle ; the 
second recurrent nervure broadly, roundly curved in the middle ; the 
first and third transverse cubital nervures broadly, roundly curved, the 
second straight, oblique ; the accessory nervure in the hind wings received 
before the cubitus ; head, thorax, and apices of the abdominal segments 
covered with a silvery pile, the head, pronotum, and metanotum with 
longish white hair, the hair on the metanotum longer than on the head or 
pronotum ; the eyes distinctly converge above ; the ocelli in a curve, 
the hinder separated from each other by a greater distance than they are 
from the eyes. Apex of clypeus broadly rounded ; the long spur of the 
hind tibiae almost three-fourths of the length of the metatarsus ; the 
claws sub-bifid. Female. 
Length, 11 mm. 
Warmberg, Zoutpansberg District. March and November. 
Basal joint of fore tarsi with four long spines ; pygidium covered 
with depressed silvery pile. 
Pompilus acuticmgulatus, sp. n. 
Black ; the basal two abdominal segments and two large semicircular 
