HYMENOPTERA. 19] 
9. PEPSIS CHRYSOBAPTA. 
Female. Length 14 lmes.—The head, thorax, coxe and ab- 
domen adorned with bright golden pile, that on the abdomen 
being thinner and less effulgent 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 antenne 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 ferrugimous. 
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, coxze, basal segment of the abdomen, and 
a band on the apical margins of the followmg segments of short 
bright golden pubescence ; the scape of the antennz beneath, 
and the trochanters and femora beneath, usually with a golden 
iridescent pile, observable in certain lights ; 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 subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous, the costal 
nervure fuscous ; the extreme apex of the wings pale; the 
posterior tarsi elongate, broadly compressed, their 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. 
ll. PeEpsis AURIFEX. B.M. 
Male. Length 9-14 lines.—Black : head, thorax, basal seg- 
ment of the abdomen and the cox 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 antenne 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 
