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Show 432 LT.-COL. C. T. BINGHAM ON THE [Mar. 17, I have examined the types of P. pedestris and P. canifrons, Smith, both in the British Museum, and find that they belong to the genus Pompilus and not to Priocnemis=Salius, Cam. (apud Kohl). 194. POMPILUS ARROGANS, Smith. Pompilus arrogans, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 187, 3 ?. Pundaloya (Green coll.). Originally received from Japan, this species seems to have a wide range; I have found it fairly common in Sikkim and Burma. There are two specimens in Mr. Green's collection. 195. POMPILUS ATROPOS, Smith. Pompilus atropos, Smith, Desc. New Spec. Hym. B. M. 146, 22 2 ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 480. Pundaloya (Green coll.). 196. POMPILUS LUCIDULUS (Saussure). Homonotus lucidulus, Sauss. Hym. d. Novara-Beise, 50, 1 $. Pompilus lucidulus, Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 459, 26. 197. POMPILUS IGNOBILIS, Saussure. Pompilus ignobilis, Sauss. Hym. d. Novara-Beise, 60, 3 $; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 459, 22. 198. POMPILUS IGNICOLOR, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 5.) 2 . L. 7 millim. Exp. 12 millim. Head and thorax in front red, metathorax, legs and abdomen black, wings hyaline with a faint fuscous cloud towards the apex. Head broad, subglobular, and opaque red,with fine close punctures; the clypeus twice as broad as high, its anterior margin narrowly smooth, shining, and recurved; front slightly convex, covered, as is the clypeus and the cheeks behind the eyes, with a fine sericeous silvery pile, only seen in certain lights; antenna? fuscous; the scape in front red ; thorax, the pro- and mesothorax above, and the scutellum and postscutellum red; the metathorax, sides of the thorax, and pectus black; the prothorax rounded in front, posteriorly arched ; the scutellum and postscutellum compressed laterally and prominent; the metathorax with a rounded slope to the apex; the whole of the thorax very finely and closely punctured; wings hyaline, the nervures fuscous, the anterior wings lightly infuscated from beyond the 2nd cubital cell, the extreme apex narrowly hyaline, the apex of the posterior wing also faintly clouded; legs black, the anterior femora, tibiae, and tarsi testaceous red, the claws |
