1869.] 373 [Cresson. 



Hob. — Vera Cruz, (C. Sartorius) ; Orizaba, (Prof. F. Sumlchrast). 

 Six 5 specimens. 



Variety floridus. Differs only by the thorax, abdomen and wings 

 having a brilliant blue and purple reflection. Orizaba. (Coll. Am. 

 Ent. Soc.) One ? , one $ , specimens. 



23. Pompilus auripilis, n. sp. 



? . Black, covered more or less with a dense, brilliant golden 

 sericeous pile; head and thorax minutely punctured, sparsely clothed 

 with a golden pubescence; antennaj blackish, ferruginous at base; 

 posterior margin of prothorax arcuate; metathorax rugose, with a 

 shallow, central, longitudinal channel; tegulse pale testaceous ; wings 

 pale yellowish hyaline, dusky at extreme apex, iridescent; legs bright 

 pale honey yellow, coxse, trochanters and apex of tarsi, blackish; 

 abdomen smooth and shining, covered with a very fine golden seri- 

 ceous pile, and with pale pubescence at apex. Length five and one 

 half lines. 



The (J is much more slender in form, and with the golden pile 

 more dense and brilliant, sides of face, clypeus except central dusky 

 line, scape beneath, teguljE, coxae, femora before and tibise, pale yel- 

 low testaceous; coxse at base, trochanters, femora behind and the 

 tarsi, black. Length four and one half lines. 



Hob. — Orizaba. (Prof. F. Sumichrast. Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) One 

 9 , one i , specimens. 



24. Pompilus subvirescens. 



Pompilus subvirescens Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, i, p. 131. 

 Hab. — Vera Cruz (C. Sartorius); Orizaba (Prof Sumichrast). 

 Three ? specimens. 



25. Pompilus chloris, n. sp. 



? . Metallic green, with blue reflections on pleura and metathorax; 

 head and thorax densely punctured, thinly clothed with whitish 

 pubescence; face clothed with silvery sericeous pile; antennae brown, 

 yellowish beneath at base; posterior margin of prothorax arcuate; 

 metathorax rugulose, silvery at apex; tegulae piceous; wings hyaline, 

 dusky at tips, iridescent, and with a faint yellowish gloss ; legs fulvo- 

 ferruginous, coxae blue green, trochanters, tarsi and apex of posterior 

 tibife, blackish, the latter violaceous; abdomen smooth and shining, 

 varied with silvery sericeous pile. Length four lines. 



ifa6.— Orizaba. (Prof F. Sumichrast. Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) 

 One ? specimen. 



