POMPILUS FORMOSUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Polished bluish-green; wings rufous, with a 

 dusky terminal submargin. 



SYNONYM. 



PoMPiLUS FORMOsus. NoMs. Westem Quarterly 

 Reporter^ ii. p. 76. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body bright greenish, a little tinged with 

 bluish, and in some lights changing to dull 

 purplish, sericeous : antennse black : feet black 

 with a green reflection: wings bright golden 

 rufous; at the extreme base, black; terminal 

 submargin of the superiores, and terminal and 

 inner submargins of the inferiores, dusky; the 

 corresponding margins pale. 



PLATE 42. 



