114 POMPILID^. 



227. Pseudagenia plebeja. 



Agenia plebeja, Saitss. Novara Meise, Jlym. p. 57, S • 

 Pseudairenia plebeja, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 



p. 438. 



(S . Head pniinose. thorax and abdomen smooth ; clypeus convex, 

 its anterior margin widely emarginate ; the front with a vertical 

 furrow, tiiberculate above the antennaj ; pronotum short, sub- 

 angular, its posterior margin arched, the suture profound ; median 

 segment rounded posteriorly, short ; abdomen longitudinally and 

 very finely aciculate. Head with cinereous, sometimes yellowish 

 pile ; thorax and abdomen with fuscous hairs, and an obscure 

 subpurple or chalybeous pruinosity ; the antennae beneath, a spot 

 on the middle of the mandibles, a spot on the front along the 

 interior orbits, a stripe behind the eyes, with the tegulse, fusco- 

 ruf ous ; legs with a fuscous and anteriorly rufescent pile ; Mdngs 

 fuscous with a violet effulgence. 



Hab. Ceylon, c? . Length 17 ; exp. 32 mm. 



228. Pseudagenia blanda. 



Pompilus bland us, Gue7-. Voy. Coq., Zool. ii, pt. 2, p. 260; Smith, 



Cot. iii, p. 143. 

 Anoplius cyaneus, Lepel. Hym. iii, p. 446. 

 Agenia blanda, Smith, Jotir. Linn. Soc. 1867, p. 354. 

 Pseudagenia blanda, Cam. Me7n. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 



p. 436. 



2 . Head, fore part of the thorax, and abdomen smooth and 

 shining, median segment transversely striated ; clypeus convex, its 

 anterior margin acutely arcuate, posterior bisinuate ; the median 

 segment with a rounded slope to its apex ; the tibijB of the legs 

 smooth, the tarsi with minute spines on the inner side ; abdomen 

 subpetiolate. Clear shining metallic blue, the antennte and legs 

 dull black, the basal two-thirds of the posterior femora blood-red ; 

 the wings hyaline, the tegulae and nervures piceous ; beneath, the 

 abdomen is black with only the basal segment blue, the head 

 rather densely, the sides of the thorax and abdomen more lightly 

 covered with silvery pile. 



Hah. India, Burma, Ceylon, extending to Malacca, Borneo, and 

 Celebes. $ . Length 12-14; exp. 24-27 mm. 



229. Pseudagenia clypeata, Bingh. Jotir. Linn. Soc. 1896, p. 427. 



5 . Pruinose ; the head a little broader than the thorax ; clypeus 

 large and prominent, convex and transversely suboval ; pronotum 

 short", the anterior angles square, the posterior margin very slightly 

 arched, almost transverse ; median segment about as long as the 

 rest of the thorax, rounded posteriorly, with a steep slope to its 

 apex, obsoletely transversely striate, and bearing a central longi- 

 tudinally impressed line ; legs long, the tibiae and tarsi with 

 minute spines, almost smooth ; abdomen short, petiolate, somewhat 

 globular. Black, with a silvery pile very dense on the clypeus, 

 sides of the face, and on the median segment; the clypeus with a 



