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the base of the second segment thickly punctured, beneath it is 
rugose. 
Hab. India. 
131. PompiLus PEDUNCULATUS. B.M, 
Female. Length 5} lines.—Head and thorax black, the face 
densely clothed with silvery pile, the labrum, mandibles and 
palpi ferrugious. Thorax: the posterior margin of the pro- 
thorax rounded; the metathorax finely transverse-striate and 
having a central longitudinal faintly impressed line ; wings 
fuscous, a subhyaline spot in the second discoidal cell; the legs 
ferruginous, the coxe black, the tibia and tarsi very slightly 
spinose. Abdomen ferruginous, the petiole black. 
Hab. India. 
132. PoMPILUS TINCTUS. B.M. 
Female. Length 4 lines.—Black : the head and thorax with an 
obscure green tinge ; the face covered with silvery pile. Thorax 
thinly covered with short hoary pile, most dense on the sides of the 
metathorax, the latter having a central longitudinal impressed 
line ; wings hyaline, the nervures testaceous ; the anterior and 
intermediate femora in front and the posterior pair entirely fer- 
ruginous; the legs destitute of spines, the calcaria testaceous. 
Abdomen smooth and shining, covered with a fine, thin, hoary 
pile; the apical margins of the segments narrowly testaceous. 
Hab. India. 
133. POMPILUS UNIFASCIATUS. B.M. 
Female. Length 10 lines.—Black: head a little wider than 
the thorax, reddish-yellow, the antennz, mandibles and palpi of 
the same colour. Thorax: above yellow; the mesothorax has its 
anterior margin more or less black; the metathorax without 
punctures or striz, covered with short pale silky pubescence ; 
the anterior and intermediate femora, except their extreme base, 
the apex of the posterior pair, the tibie and tarsi, reddish-yellow ; 
the apical joints of the tarsi black ; wings reddish-yellow, their 
apical margins fuscous; the second submarginal cell a little 
wider than the third, which is slightly restricted towards the 
marginal; the first recurrent nervure received by the second 
submarginal cell near its apex. Abdomen: the basal margin of 
the second segment with a narrow yellow fascia; the apical 
segment reddish-yellow ; the yellow fasciz on the abdomen 
sometimes obscure. 
The male closely resembles the female, but has the head larger, 
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