162 STNTOMID^. 



320. Pompilopsis tarsalis. 



Glaucopis tarsalis, Wlk. i. 196 (1854), S; Butl. III. Het. i. p. 28, pi. 13. 



f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 134. 

 Glauco-pis semihyalina, Wlk. i. 197 (18.54), $ ; Butl. 111. Het. i. pi. 13. 



f. 9 ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 63 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 134. 

 Pseudosphex vespiformis, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. i. f. 425 (1855). 



6 . Blue-black ; frons grey at edges ; antennae with the shaft 



"whitish above ; tarsi greyish ; 

 abdomen with the pedun- 

 culated segment ventrally 

 whitish ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins and margins narrowlj^ 

 black. Fore wing with a 

 broad hyaline brown band 

 from inner margin before 

 ^g.U.—Fompilopsis tarsalis, S- \- middle to costa and along it 



to apex, with a brilliant 

 metallic-blae diseocellular patch on it, and the costa streaked with 

 blue ; a blue and fuscous patch at tornus. Hind wing hyaline 

 brown except at base ; a brilliant metallic-blue, irregular, terminal 

 band varying in width. 



5 . Fore wing with the hyaline brown band not extending 

 to apex ; no patch at tornus ; hind wing with the area between 

 lower angle of cell and apex clouded with brown, no terminal blue 

 band. 



Hab. Mexico, Tabasco {H. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Vera Paz 

 {Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Amazons, Para {Bates), types. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus POMPILIODES, nov. 



Type, P. aliena, Wlk. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, slender, and reaching vertex of 

 bead ; antennae with tbe sbaft dilated at middle ; tibiae with the spurs short ; 

 abdomen with the 2nd segment somewhat constricted, male with a ventral 

 valve covering basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow; veins 3, 4, 5 

 from angle, or 3 before angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wiug with the lower part of cell rather short ; veins 2, 3, 4 stalked 

 from angle, 3 given off from 2 close to the margin ; 5 obsolescent ; 6, 7 stalked 

 or from cell. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate, with short branches dilated at extremity. 

 321. Pompiliodes albomarginata. 



Amyclcs alhoniarginata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am,, Het. i. p. 45, pi. 7. f. 2fi 

 (1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 127. 



cJ . Black-brown ; abdomen with white lateral spots on ventral 

 valve. Fore wing with the black-brown shading to reddish brown 



