810 Hob. Lucas: 



2. Pepsix Opt fatal is F. Sm. 



opHmatis Smith, Annais aml Magaz Nat Bistorj, ser. IV, 



tom XII. IST.;, pag. 50. .Q. 



Female Lengtfa 19 lines. Head and thorax clothed with golden 



pobeseenee; abdomen black, with b beautiful changeable opaline Instre; 



the antennae orange-red; tbe acape black, and with a golden pile. Thorax 



bright golden; winga «l.irk rafo-fuacooa, with a pale Bpot in the second 



discoidal eil: leg« blacl : the tihiae and tar.-i \>ry atrougty spinöse; tlie 



coxae with golden pile Abdomen black, iriUi b serieeona pile that chan- 



gea in tint in different lighta t<> green, gold blue or opaline lustre 

 ll.i, Pari 



080 F Sm. 



Pepgit tpeciosa Smith. Catalogne of Ihm. Ina. in the coli, of the 

 Bril Uns lll. 1866 png. 186, So 22 </. 



Male Length l" - 16 lines. - Black: the band, thorax and coxae, den- 

 >ely covered with rieh golden pile; the hinder margin of the rertez, and 

 an angnlar ahape on the mesothorai anteriorlj unadomed; the palpi and 

 Ups "f the mandiblea rufo piceooa; the antennae of a fulvous-yellow, tlie 

 scape and basal Joint of the Aegellnm murr or less fuscous; winga dark 

 rarying in intenaity in different examplea; the extreme apex paler, 

 Bcarcelj hyaline; a minnte hyaline spot at the baae of the second discoi- 

 dal cell: the scutellnm elevated, the metathorax tranarenelj rugose sul- 

 caAe, or deeplj grooved, the posterior anglea prominent and obtuse; tbe 

 tarsi. the intermediate tibiae at tlieir apex, and the posterior tibiae enti- 

 rely, rufo-fulvous, tbe calcaria t'ulvous; the claws black, Abdomen: the 

 basal segment entirely, tlie second at its apical margin. the third at botb 

 basal and apical margins. and the t'our apical segments entirely covered 

 with golden pik': the apical segments most densely covered at tbeir 

 basal and apical margins. 



Hab. Brasil (Santarem) [Coli. 11 W. Batea]. 



Thia in all probabilitj is tbe male of 1'. sumptuosa. 



4. Peptis j' ulch ella Pel. 

 Pepsis ptdcheUa St. Farg., Hym. III, 1845, 491, No. 37. 



Capnt nigrum. coeruleo-viridi-pubescens, nigro pilosum. Antennae 

 nigrae. Thorax niger, caeruleo-viridi pubescens, metathoracis dorso trans- 

 verse striato. Abdomen subnudum, coeruleo - viride. Anus nigro villosus. 

 Pedes nigri; coxis femoribusi|ue cocruleo-viridibus; pilis spinisqoe nigris. 

 Alae subrufo-hyalinae, apice lato nigro; nervuris fusce ferrugineis; puncto 

 marginal!, costa squama^ue nigris. 



Nota. Praeter limbum et cellulam cubitalem quartam, cellulas radia- 

 lem et cubitalem tertiam totas alae anticae apex niger oecupat. — Male. 

 Long. 11 lignes. 



Cayenne. Musee de M Serville. 



