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y 4. Pepsis antennalis. (Tab. xii. fig. 3.) 



Long. 22 millim. 5 . 



Hab. Panama (Boucard). 



Sericeous-blue; the first, second, third, and fourth joints of the antennae black, 

 the remaining joints orange-yellow. Head covered with long black hair; the 

 frontal furrow wide and deep ; the apex of the clypeus very slightly arcuate. The 

 median segment strongly transversely striolate ; the extreme apex sharply oblique and 

 strongly carinate at the top ; the apical keel not depressed in the middle ; the sides 

 and the mesopleurae hardly tuberculated. The abdomen at the apex above and beneath 

 bearing long black hairs. The legs pruinose, very stoutly spinose. The fore wings 

 deep black at the extreme base, infuscated at the apex, but not deeply, for the rest 

 dull-yellow; the hind wings entirely smoky-violaceous. The third cubital cellule 

 elongate ; the third transverse cubital nervure sharply elbowed, so that at the top the 

 third cubital cellule is hardly half the length of the bottom ; the second recurrent 

 nervure sinuate and received considerably in front of the middle of the cellule. 



v 5. Pepsis cinctipennis. 



Pepsis cinctipennis, Mocsary, Termes. Fiizetek, ix. p. 265 (1885) \ 

 Hab. Guatemala, Escuintla 1 . 



6. Pepsis chiron. 



Pepsis chiron, Mocsary, Termes. Fiizetek, ix. p. 266 (1885) x . 

 Hab. Honduras 1 . 



7. Pepsis andrei. 



Pepsis andrei, Mocsary, Termes. Fiizetek, ix. p. 267 (1885) \ 

 Hab. Guatemala 1 . 



b. Antennae entirely black. (Species 8-11.) 



,/ 8. Pepsis montezuma. (Tab. xii. fig. 6.) 



Pepsis montezuma, Smith, Cat. Hymen. Ins. iii. p. 199 1 ; Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 146 2 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 ; Guatemala, El Tumbador, Zapote, Purula (Champion); Nicaragua, 

 Chontales {Belt) ; Costa Eica, Cache (Mogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 7000 to 

 8000 feet (Champion). — Colombia 1 . 



The apex of the clypeus is, for a Pepsis, rather deeply incised and bears some punc- 

 tures ; the labrum is finely rugose ; the black cloud on the wings reaches to the basal 

 nervure ; the mesopleurae are bluntly tuberculate ; the apex of the abdomen above is 

 densely covered with stiff longish hairs, beneath more sparsely with longer, softer hair. 



biol. CENTE.-AMEE., Hymenopt., Vol. II., October 1893. 2 fp 



