HYMENOPTERA. N9 



146. POMPILUS jESTIVUS. B.M. 



Female. Length 8 lines. Head and thorax densely clothed 

 with short changeable pile reflecting shades of purple and blue ; 

 the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded, smooth and shining ; 

 the mandibles polished at their apex and armed with four acute 

 teeth ; wings dark fuscous, with a bright violet iridescence ; the 

 legs have an obscure iridescence, the tibiae have a few scattered 

 spines, the anterior tarsi ciliated ; the metathorax rounded, and 

 having a central longitudinal impressed line. Abdomen blue, 

 with purple iridescence, the apex thinly covered with black 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). (Coll. H. W. Bates.) 



147. POMPILUS BITUBERCULATUS. B.M. 

 Pompilus bituberculatus, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. pt. 2. p. 258. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



148. POMPILUS CHLOROSOMA. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Metallic green, varied with coppery 

 and blue shades : the femora and tibiae red, the extreme apex of 

 the latter and the tarsi fuscous ; the calcaria fuscous at the tips, 

 the tarsi more or less red at their base ; the face covered with a 

 dense silvery pile; the entire insect has a thin changeable 

 silvery pile, most dense on the prothorax, coxae, and sides 

 of the metathorax, the latter having also a thin hoary pubes- 

 cence, and a slightly impressed longitudinal line in the middle ; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent, the nervures fuscous, stigma black ; the 

 tegulae have their outer margins rufo-testaceous. Abdomen 

 petiolate, the extreme apex rufo-piceous. 

 Hab. Brazil (Para). (Coll. H. W. Bates.) 



149. POMPILUS CRCESUS. B.M. 

 Female. Length 15 lines. Black, covered with rich golden 



pile ; the antennae ferruginous, the scape and base of the first 

 joint of the flagellum, fuscous ; wings yellow, the nervures fer- 

 ruginous, the apex of the superior wings pale ; the coxse covered 

 with golden pile, the femora, tibiae and tarsi, black ; the meta- 

 thorax black, rounded, and transversely rugose-striate, having a 

 central longitudinal impressed line. Abdomen subpetiolate. 



Hab. Brazil. 



