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5. PEPSIS CIRCULARIS n. sp. 



(5\ Blue, with purplish reflection; wings dark brown, the medial por 

 tion of superiors including apical half of median and submedian cells, all 

 discoidals except part of third, first and second submarginals, and margi 

 nal basally, reddish; tips subhyaline; inferiors 

 almost entirely brown, with the middle portion 

 of anterior margin, reddish, tips not subhya- 

 line; antennae black ; clypeus incurved anteri 

 orly, but not angularly so; front deeply im 

 pressed; sides of metanotum indistinctly stri 

 ated, metapleura strongly striated; upper and 



FlG ' "jTSil/ S r m ' CeU ' posterior surfaces of middle segment distinctly 

 separated, the median transverse fold (Median- 



querleiste) distinct, almost reaching the sides, lateral teeth rudimentary, 

 upper surface with the rugae most distinct on the median and lateral 

 longitudinal folds, the depressed portions nearly smooth ; abdomen fusi 

 form, rather robust; impression of second ventral segment indistinct, no 

 hair on fourth or fifth ventrals, subgenital plate crossed by a carina at 

 about the middle which then runs toward the base on each side, apex of 

 plate at each side strongly produced, sixth ventral segment covered by a 

 large chitinous plate the postero-lateral angles of which are drawn out 

 into a fold which completely encircles the sixth dorsal segment; longer 

 spur of hind tibia equal to somewhat more than one-third of the length of 

 first hind tarsal joint. Length 26 mm. 



Texas. One specimen. 



6. PEPSIS FORMOSA Say. 



Pepsis formosus Say, West. Quart. Reporter, II, 76, 

 1823; Amer. Entomology, plate 42, 9, 1828; arid 

 various authors. 



Pepsis formosa R. Lucas, 1. c., 736, ? c?, 1895. 



Texas ; Mexico (Lucas) ; Lower California. 



7. PEPSIS NEPHELE R. Luc. 



Pepsis nephele R. Lucas, 1. c., 739, 9, 1895. 



Texas: Dallas (Boll). Differs from formosa by the broadly 

 and darkly margined wings. Lucas says: " Is perhaps only a 

 variation, by the remarkable color of wings, of P. formosa 

 Say." 



8. PEPSIS CHRYSOTHEMIS R. Luc. 



Pepsis chrysothemis R. Lucas, 1. c., 739? ^S St ^5? ^6, 

 9 2 > J 33> c?, 1895. 



