the wings subhyaline,
the nervures fusco-ferruginous. Abdomen: the apical margins of the
segments with a narrow yellow border, the second and third uniting with
a lateral spot; the sixth segment immaculate; the apex pale testaceous.

_Hab._ Celebes.

Fam. POMPILIDAE, _Leach_.

1. Pompilus analis, _Fabr. Syst. Piez._ p. 209. 42.

_Hab._ India, Java, Ceylon, Celebes.

2. POMPILUS SALTITANS. _P._ niger, pedibus subferrugineis, prothoracis
margine postica flava; alis flavo-hyalinis, apice fuscis, abdomine pilis
cinereis fasciato.

_Female._ Length 6 lines. Black and thinly covered with ashy pile. The
scape, labrum, mandibles and palpi ferruginous; the clypeus widely
emarginate anteriorly. The posterior margin of the prothorax angular and
with a yellow border; the scutellum prominent, covered on each side with
a dense silvery-white pile, the postscutellum with two spots of the
same; the wings flavo-hyaline, their apex with a broad dark-fuscous
border, the nervures ferruginous, the tegulae yellow; the posterior wings
palest; legs pale ferruginous, the coxae black with their tips pale; the
apical joints of the tarsi blackish, the spines of the legs black.
Abdomen: the first, second, and third segments with a fascia of
silvery-white pile at their basal margins; the apex of the abdomen
ferruginous.

_Hab._ Celebes.

3. POMPILUS CONTORTUS. _P._ niger, cinereo-pilosus, prothorace flavo
postice marginato; alis subhyalinis, marginibus apicalibus fuscis,
pedibus subferrugineis.

_Female._ Length 5-1/2 lines. Black; the head, thorax, and four basal
segments of the abdomen covered with ashy pile; the first and second
segments with their apical margins naked. The scape yellow in front; the
flagellum beneath, the labrum, mandibles and palpi ferruginous; the
joints of the antennae arcuate, particularly the apical ones; the apex of
each joint is oblique, giving the antennae a twisted appearance. Thorax:
the posterior margin of the prothorax angular and with a broad yellow
border; the scutellum compressed and prominent; wings subhyaline with a
broad fuscous border at their apex, the tegulae yellow; legs pale
ferruginous, with their coxae and trochanters black; the apical joints of
the tarsi fuscous. Abdomen with a yellow macula at the tip.

_Hab._ Celebes.

4. POMPILUS PILIFRONS. _P._ niger, facie argenteis pilis dense tecta;
thorace abdomineque flavo maculatis, alis subhyalinis, apice fuscis.

_Female._ Length 4-1/2 lines