die Pompüiden- Gattung Pepsis. 813 



lis spinisque nigris. Alae nigrae, opacae, violaceo coeruleoque micantes, 

 anticaruni margiiie apicali, opaco; neivuris, [luncto niarginali, costa squarna- 

 qiie nigris. — Femelle l pouce. 



Male. Similis. Abdominis segnientum sextum uti praecedeiitia. 



Surinam et Bresil. Miisee de Seiville 



11. Pepsis albocincta F. Sm. 

 Pepsis albocincta Smith, Catalogoe of Hyin. Insects in the coli, 

 of the Brit. Mus. III, 1855, pag. 192, no. 12 (fQ.. 



Male: Length 15 lincs. — Black: the head, thorax on the sides and 

 beneati), the legs and abdomen clothed with a deep blue pilosity, varying 

 in brightness in different lights? : the thorax is black above, the metatho- 

 rax transversely riigose, having a longitudinal inipressed. line down the 

 centre, and covered witli a scattered long black pubescence; antennae black, 

 with two or tbree of the apical joints orange; wings very dark fusco-fer- 

 ruginous; the second discoidal cell having a ininute hyaline spot at its 

 base ; the apical and posterior margins of the wings white. 



Hab. Brasil (Santareni) [Coli. H. W. BatesJ. Columbia. 



Tiie female in the coUection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Female. Length 1 inch 9 lines. — This sex has the wings margined 

 as in the other sex, the antennae black, the metathorax transversely ru- 

 gose; the entire insect decorated with a splendid changeable blue and green 

 pilosity; the legs thicker than it is usual in this genus, and densely cilia- 

 ted with stout spines, the posterior tibiae stx'ongly serrated on their 

 outer edge. 



Ist höchst wahrscheinlich mit P. yrossa F. identiscli, siehe pag. 563. 



12. Pepsis fulvicornis Mocs. 

 Pepsis fulvicornis Mocsäry, Termesz. Füzetek IX, 1885, pag. 252, 

 No. 21 Q. 



Media, minus robusta, nigra, pube brevissinia viridi-coerulea sericeoque 

 lucida concinne ornata parciusque nigro-pilosa; occipite, pronoto, scutelli 

 laterious postcutello et metathorace parte truncata in medio atroholoseri- 

 ceis; metanoto in medio minus profunde canaliculato, sat sparsim irregula- 

 riter fortius transverse-slriato, postice oblique truncato densiusque trans- 

 verse-striato, mesopleuris tuberculo sat magno, obtuso armatis; capite tho- 

 racis latitudine, post oculos evidenter angustato minusque fortiter tumido; 

 antennis crassiusculis, fulvis, arliculis duobus basalibu» nigris; clypeo con- 

 vexo, medio leniter emarginato, laLro rufo-piceo rufuque tomentoso, den- 

 sissirnc punctulato, puuctis sparsis maioribus; abdomine oblongo-ovali, seg- 

 mento secundo thorace parum latiore, ultimo maxima parte nigro-setoso; 

 pedibus coeruleis, tibiis posticis intus atro-holosericeo-strigatis, aus atro- 

 viridaeneis, splendidis, anticis limbo apicali anguste aeneo micantibus. — 

 9 ; long 25 mm ; alis expansis .54 mm. 



Pati'ia: Panama (Coli. Andrei). 



Möglicherweise ist P, helvolicornis R. Luc. mit dieser Art identisch. 



