486 Bob. Lucas: 



Körperlänge: <f 28 — 30 nun. Fingellänge: 29 — 30 mm. 

 Spannweite: 60—63 nun. 



Vorkommen: Brasilien: Para (Sieber, Mus. Berol.); I'iauhy 

 (Mus. Hung.). 



4. Pepsis chrpeobapta F. Sm. 



J^psis chrysobapta F. Smith, Catalogue of Hymenopteroae 

 Insects in the collection of llie British Museum 1855, III, pag. 

 191, nuro. 9, Q. 



Pepsis chrysobapta F. Sm., Mocsäry, Termesz. Fiizetek 1885, 

 vol. IX, pag. 239, num. 1. 



Die Originalbeschreibung dieser Art, von der ich leider kein 

 Stück vor mir habe, lautet: 



„Female. Length 14 liucs. — The head, thorax, coxae and ab- 

 domen adomed 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 rieh golden lustre; the apex of the 

 third Joint of the antennae and the nine apical ones bright orange-yellow; 

 the maxillary lobe and palpi and also the labial palpi rufo-pieeous, the 

 articulations of the joints palest; legs black. with an obscure violet re- 

 flection; wings fnlvo-hyaline, becoming paler towards their apical margins, 

 the nervures ferruginous, the costal nervure fuscous. Abdomen: the 

 pubescence at the apex ferruginous. 



Hab.: Brazil (Para). (Coli. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)" 



Diese Beschreibung wird bedeutend vervollständigt durch 

 Mocsäry: 



„Media, elongata, nigra; capite thoracis latitudine, post oculos 

 fortiter angustato, pube brevissima atro-holosericea vestito par- 

 ciusque nigro-piloso ; clypeo in medio arcuatim emarginato, la- 

 teribus rotundatis; labro semicircidari, fusco-rufo, nitido, valde 

 dense subtilissime punchdato ; orbitis oadorum internis parce 

 aureo-tomentosis; antennis crassiusculis, articulis cylindricis, 

 nigris, 5 — 13 citrinis; thorace maoeima parte tomento aareo con- 

 cinne ornato, solum mesonoti lateribus atro-holoserieeis et metanoto 

 utrinque canaiieulatofusco-tomentoso minusque fortiter transverse- 

 striato, lateribus inermibus, seu denticidatim non produetis, meso- 

 pleuris tuberculo parvo obtuso armatis; abdomine thoracis lati- 

 tudine, pube brevi fusco-nigra vestito, segmentis 1 — 0' margine 

 apicali fascia angusta e pube brevi aurea serieeoque lucida con- 

 cinne ornatis, segmento septimo dense nigro-setoso, ventrali quarto 

 parce longius fusco-piloso (nonfasciculato), valvula anali elongata- 

 subovali, apice rotundata, nitida, basi utrinque fossulata; pedibus 



