HYMENOPTERA, 195 
21. PEPSIS SMARAGDINA. 
Pepsis smaragdina, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 120. 39. 
Hab. Brazil. 
22. PEPSIS SPECIOSA. B.M. 
Male. Length 10-15 lines.—Black: the head, thorax and 
coxee, densely clothed with rich golden pile; the hinder margin 
of the vertex, and an angular shape on the mesothorax anteriorly 
unadorned; the palpi and tips of the mandibles rufo-piceous ; 
the antenne of a fulvous-yellow, the scape and basal joint of the 
flagellum more or less fuscous; wings dark fuscous, varying in 
intensity in different 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-sulcate, or deeply grooved, the posterior angles prominent 
and obtuse; the tarsi, the intermediate tibie at their apex, and 
the posterior tibiz entirely, rufo-fulvous; the calearia 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. PrEpSIS XANTHOCERA. B.M. 
Pepsis xanthocera, Dahlb. Hym. Europ. i. 120.29. 
Hab. Bahia; Brazil. 
25. PEPSIS VARIPENNIS. 
Pepsis varipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 488. 32 3. 
Hab. Brazil. 
26. PrEPSIS VAU-ALBA. 
Female. Length 1 inch.—Black; covered with a dark blue 
pilosity, the abdomen very bright and shining: the antenne 
black ; the metathorax transversely coarsely rugose, having a 
central longitudinal impressed line; the anterior wings have 
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