B12 Beb. Lucas: 



nigrae, apice dccolori, ad costam mcdiani inacula Bttbquadrata pallide fer- 

 rnginea, in raperioribna majori, in inferioribna minori; puncto sub hacsab- 

 triqoetro; aervnrae coataqae in partibas ferragiheiB, ferragincae, in nigris 



nti punctum marginale et Bqnama nigrae. — Male 15 lignee 



Saint-Domingue. Musee de M. Serville. 



R /". pgie hi, ,,l><l,i V Sm 



- lucidvia Sinitli, Catalogne of liym. Ins. in tlic coli, of the 

 Bril Mne III, 1865, pag 193, No. IG (fQ. 

 Female Lengtb. Black, adorned with a bright obangeable indes- 

 cent blne pile; the lege bare ■ biilliant parple reflection, and the Vertex 



parte Ot the thorai and abdomcn present a variety of deep black shades 



in different lighta; tbeflagellain black, the aoape blne; the mandiblca nigro- 



: the articulatioiis u£ the joints ot the palpi pale testaeeous ; the 



clvpeae tridelj amarginate; the prothonu •wollen on eacb aide, the scu- 

 tellnm Btriated, bat imootb in the centre, irbieb is elevated; the metatho* 

 rax transversely coarscly rogoee ^triate, having a longitudinal inpreaeed 

 line in the middlej iringa dark Fanconi, witb i .slifrht raetallie lustre; the 

 »marginal eell haa an abbreviaied line emanating fr<'in tbe Btigma, 

 the baac oi tbe aeeond dUcoidaJ cell, aii'l a larger irregulär sliape on the 

 inferioi iringa, fnWo*byaliue. Abdomen "f a bright priamatic blne, the 

 apex thinly covered with long black hairs 



Male Beara a close resemblance to the temale; the antennae por- 

 i ■ et . entirely black: the anterior »ring baa a line emanating from the 

 Btigma, the anterior margin of the tirst »ubmarginal cell, the apex of the 

 ex terno* medial cell, and tbe entire tirst discoidal cell, obscure rnfo-byaline. 



Hab. Hrazil (Santarem). [Coli. W. ßates] 



'.>. 1',-jis i$ t inetipen n is F. 8m. 

 Pepsü tinctipennU .Smith, Annais and Magaz. Nat. History, Ser. IV, 

 toni. XII, 1873, pag. 50 $. 

 Feinale. Length 15' , lines. Black, with blue and green shades in 

 different lighta; wings dark brown. glossy, bot not priamatic, with the apex 

 of the anterior wings yellow from the base of the third submarginal cell. 

 Head: the scape of the antennae of a blue tint ; the seven following joints 

 opaque black: the tive apical joints orange yellow. Thorax: the disk has 

 a bright green tint in certain lights; the metathorax obscurely tinted with 

 shades of blue or green, and irregularly, strongly, transversely striated ; 

 the legs dark blue; the tibiae and tarsi thickly set with short spines 

 Abdomen shining, and reflecting shades of purple, blue and ^reen. 

 Hab. Para. 



10. Pepsis ornata Pel. 

 Fcpsis ornata St. Farg., Hym. II l, 1845, pag. 486, No. 29. 

 Caput nigrum, nigro pubescens villosuniijne. Antennae nigrae. Thorax 

 niger, nigro pubescens pilosusque; metathoracis dorso transverse striato. 

 Abdomen nigrum, nigro pubescens. Anus nigro pilosus. Pedos nigri, pi- 



