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14a. Pepsis chrysothemis chrysothemia Lucas 



Pepsis chrysothemis Lucas, 1895, Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 39, p. 739, cf. Types: 

 ci'cf, M6xico and Texas ("Mus. Berol," and"Mus. caes. Vindob.") 



Pepsis cinnaharina Lucas, 1895, Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 39. p. 804, 9 . Types: 

 9 9, M6xico and Coulterville, Calif. ("Mus. Berol.", "Mus. caes. Vindob.", 

 and "Mus. Brem."). 



This subspecies occurs from the Big Bend part of Texas to the 

 vicinity of San Francisco, and southward to northern Mexico. 



14b. Pepsis chrysothemis lucasii Fox 



Pepsis Lucasii Fox, 1898, Proc. Ent, Soc. Washington, vol. 4, p. 145, 9 • Type: 

 9 , Texas (Philadelphia) . 



This subspecies occurs in the eastern half of Texas and in north- 

 eastern Mexico. 



Genus Hemipepsis Dahlbom 



Hemipepsis Dahlbom, 1844, Hymenoptera Europaea, . . ., vol. 1, p. 123. Type: 



Hemipepsis capensis Dahlbom; designated by Ashmead, 1900. 

 Pallosoma Lepeletier, 1845, Histoire naturelle des insects hyra6nopteres, vol. 3, 



p. 492. Type: Pallosoma barbara Lepeletier; designated by Ashmead, 1900. 

 Teiraodontonyx Ashmead, 1900, Canadian Ent., vol. 32, p. 187. Type: (Tcira- 



odontonyx rufipes Ashmead) = heros Guerin; original designation. 

 Tetracryptocheilus Zavattari, 1907, Bol. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 



vol. 22, No. 555, p. 4. Type: Cryptocheilus {Tetracryptocheilus) ascensi 



Zavattari; original designation. 

 Tetracryptochilus Schulz, 1911, Zoologische Anualen, vol. 4, p. 112. Emendation. 

 Tnc/iont/xHaupt, 1929, Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines, vol. 17, p. 195. Type: Hemi- 

 pepsis unguicularis Kohl; original designation. 

 Pachynimia Haupt, 1929, Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines, vol. 17, pp. 197, 202, Type: 



Priocnemis tinctor Saussure; original designation, 

 Xenopepsis Arnold, 1932, Ann, Transvaal Mus., vol. 14, pp. 291, 323,367. Type: 



Hemipepsis (Xenopepsis) commixta Arnold; original designation. 

 Moropepsis Banks, 1934, Proc, Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 69, pp. 6, 8, Type: 



Hemipepsis (Moropepsis) croesus Banks; monobasic. 

 Hovagenia Banks, 1941, Proc, Acad, Nat, Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 92, p. 343. 



Type: Hovagenia saussurei Banks; original designation. 



Large or very large species of average stoutness, the Nearctic species 

 with the forewing 11 to 27 mm. long; clypeus moderately large; 

 pronotum moderately long, its hind margin arcuate; second inter- 

 cubital vein somewhat curved; second recurrent vein reaching second 

 cubital cell near its apical 0.1 ; cubital vein reaching the wing margin; 

 base of first discoidal cell containing a conspicuous subcircular irregu- 

 larity in the membrane; nervidus beyond basal vein by 0.2 to 0,4 its 

 length; nervellus ending beyond juncture of cubitella with discoidella; 

 anal lobe about 0,9 as long as submediella (pi. 1, fig. 3); hind tibia 

 with a dorsal serration or rippled carina; brush on inner side of hind 

 tibia rather broad, without a subapical constriction ; last tarsal segment 



