HYMENOPTERA. 195 



21. Pepsis SMARAGDINA. 



Pepsis smaragdina, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 120. 3 $ . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



22. Pepsis speciosa. B.M. 



Male. Length 10-15 lines. — Black : the head, thorax and 

 coxae, densel)' clothed with rich golden pile ; the hinder margin 

 of the vertex, and an angular shape on the niesothorax anteriorly 

 unadorned ; the palpi and tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous ; 

 the antennae of a fulvous-yellow, the scape and basal joint of the 

 flagellum more or less fuscous ; wings dark fuscous, varying in 

 intensity in diflPerent examples ; the extreme apex paler, scarcely 

 hyaline ; a minute hyaline spot at the base of the second dis- 

 coidal cell ; the scutellum elevated, the metathorax transversely 

 rugose-suleate, or deeply grooved, the posterior angles prominent 

 and obtuse ; the tarsi, the intermediate tibiae at their apex, and 

 the posterior tibiae entirely, rufo-fulvous ; the calcaria fulvous, the 

 claws black. Abdomen : the basal segment entirely, the second 

 at its apical margin, the third at both basal and apical margins, 

 and the four apical segments entirely covered with golden pile ; 

 the apical segments most densely covered at their basal and 

 apical margins. 



Hab. Brazil (Santarem). (Coll. H. W. Bates.) 



This in all probability is the male of P. sumptuosa. 



23. Pepsis viridis. 



Pepsis viridis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 485. 27. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



24. Pepsis xanthocera. B.M. 

 Pepsis xanthocera, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 120. 2 ? . 



Hab. Bahia ; Brazil. 



25. Pepsis varipennis. 



Pepsis varipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 488. 32 S • 

 Hab. Brazil. 



26. Pepsis vau-alba. 



Female. Length 1 inch. — Black; covered with a dark blue 

 pilosity, the abdomen very bright and shining : the antennae 

 black ; the metathorax transversely coarsely rugose, having a 

 central longitudinal impressed line ; the anterior wings have 



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