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139. PoMPILUS PEDESTRIS. B.M. 
Female. Length 7 lines.—Black : the head covered with cine- 
reous pile, that on the face and clypeus very dense and silvery- 
white. Thorax thinly covered with cinereous pile; the anterior 
and posterior margins of the prothorax have bands of dense cine- 
reous pile; that on the metathorax, sides of the thorax, and on 
the coxe: is very dense and silvery; the metathorax truneate 
posteriorly, the lateral angles slightly produced, forming obtuse 
tubercles ; the wings fusco-hyaline, their apical margins having 
a darker fuscous cloud, the third submarginal cell subtriangular ; 
the legs covered with scattered Jong sharp spines ; the posterior 
tibiae and femora ferruginous, the latter black at their base. 
Abdomen: the base, of all the segments, has a broad cinereous 
band. 
Hab. Sumatra. 
140. PoMPILUS PERPLEXUS. B.M. 
Female. Length 6 lines.— Black: the head and thorax 
opake ; the posterior margin of the prothorax angulated, the 
metathorax smooth and impunctate ; the wings deep fuscous, 
with a violet iridescence ; the second and third submarginal cells 
of about equal length, the former receiving the first recurrent 
nervure near its apex; the legs sparingly spinose. Abdomen 
smooth and shining, and having an obscure chalybeous tinge. 
Hab. Sumatra. 
141. PomMPILUS CHRULEUS. B.M. 
Female. Length 5-7 lines.—Bright shining blue: the an- 
tenn, mandibles and palpi black; the face covered with fine 
silvery pile, the head having a thin scattered hoary pubescence; 
the thorax has a similar pubescence to that on the head; the 
pro- and meso-thorax finely rugose, the metathorax coarsely so, 
and having a central deeply impressed line, extending from the 
base to the apex ; wings subhyaline, the nervures black ; a fus- 
cous cloud traversing the externo-medial nervure, a faint cloud 
also occupies the second submarginal cell; legs obscurely blue, 
without spmes, the posterior femora bright red. Abdomen sub- 
petiolate, smooth and shining. 
Hab. Northern India; Sumatra. 
This species resembles P. blandus, Guérin, but differs in the 
sculpture of the thorax, colour of the legs, and also materially 
in size. 
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