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.9. Pepsis CHRYSOBAPTA. 



Female. Length 14 lines. — The head, thorax, coxse and ab- 

 domen adorned with bright golden pile, that on the abdomen 

 being thinner and less eiFulgent than on the head and thorax, 

 on the apical margins of the segments it is of a rich golden 

 lustre ; the apex of the third joint of the antennae and the nine 

 apical ones bright orange -yellow ; the maxillary lobe and palpi 

 and also the labial palpi rufo-piceous, the articulations of the 

 joints palest ; legs black, with an obscure violet reflection ; wings 

 fulvo-hyaline, becoming paler towards their apical margins, the 

 nervures ferruginous, the costal nervure fuscous. Abdomen : 

 the pubescence at the apex ferruginous. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



10. Pepsis aurozonata. B.M. 



Male. Length 12-15 lines. — Black : the face below the ante- 

 rior stemma, the thorax, coxae, basal segment of the abdomen, and 

 a band on the apical margins of the following segments of short 

 bright golden pubescence ; the scape of the antenna? beneath, 

 and the trochanters and femora beneath, usually \Adth a golden 

 iridescent pile, observable in certain hghts ; the flagellum ferru- 

 ginous ; the mesothorax black in front and at the sides, leaving 

 an oblong golden patch on the disk, the middle of the scutellum 

 black ; the posterior lateral angles of the metathorax and also 

 the middle produced ; the metathorax is also transversely rugose- 

 striate ; wings subhyahne, the nervures ferruginous, the costal 

 nervure fuscous ; the extreme apex of the wings pale ; the 

 posterior tarsi elongate, broadly compressed, then- pubescence 

 black ; the abdomen beneath has a bright golden pile on the 

 apical margins of all the segments, covering two-thirds of the 

 second segment, the fifth segment covered with fulvous pubes- 

 cence. 



Hab. Brazil. 



11. Pepsis aurifex. B.M. 



Male. Length 9-14 hues.— Black : head, thorax, basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen and the coxae clothed with dense golden 

 pile; in some examples the mesothorax anteriorly, the sides, 

 and also the scutellum in the middle, are destitute of pile ; the 

 palpi, mandibles in the middle and the labrum rufo-ferruginous ; 

 the antennae obscurely rufous, the apex more or less fuscous ; 

 the scape sometimes fuscous ; metathorax transversely rugose- 

 striate ; the lateral angles and also the middle are produced ; 

 wings fusco-ferruginous, their extreme base and their apical 



