die Pompüiden- Gattung Pepsis. «13 



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

 anticarum margine apicali, opaco; nervuris, puncto marginali, costa squama- 

 que nigris. — Femelle 1 pouce. 



Male. Similis. Abdominis segmentura sextum uti praecedentia. 



Surinam et Bresil. Musee de Serville. 



11. Pepsis albocincta F. Sm. 



Pepsis albocincta Smith, Catalogue of Hym. Insects in the coli, 

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



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

 beneatli, the legs and abdomen clothed viith a deep blue pilosity, varying 

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

 rax transversely rugose, having a longitudinal iinpressed line down the 

 centie, and covered with 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 (Santarem) [Coli. H. W. BatesJ. Columbia. 



The female in the collection 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 nietathorax 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 strongly serrated on their 

 outer edge. 



Ist höchst wahrscheinlich mit P. grossa F. identisch, siehe pag. 563. 



12. Pepsis fulvicornis Mocs. 



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

 No. 21 Q. 



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

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

 lateriDus 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, articulis duobus basalibus nigris ; clypeo con- 

 vexo, medio leniter emarginato, labro rufo-piceo rufoque tomeutoso, den- 

 sissime punctulato, punctis sparsis maioribus; abdomine oblongo-ovali, seg- 

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

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

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

 $ ; long 25 mm ; alis expansis 54 mm. 



Patria: Panama (Coli. Andrei). 



Mösrlicherweise ist P. heholicornis E, Luc. mit dieser Art identisch. 



