1969] 
Evans — Pompilidae 
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Austrochares elsinore Banks 
Austrochares elsinore Banks, 1947, p. 426 [Type: $, PERU: Lima, 21 May 
1920 (Cornell Univ. Exped.) (Cornell Univ., No. 2547)]. 
Female. — Length ion mm; fore wing 9-10 mm. Black, except 
inner orbits with a small pale spot and outer orbits with a pale streak ; 
pubescence with strong bluish reflections; propodeum with a few 
short hairs on the sides ; wings moderately fumose, violaceous. Clypeus 
2.2 X as wide as high ; middle interocular distance .63 X transfacial 
distance; upper interocular distance .73 X lower interocular dis- 
tance, the vertex arched gently above the eye tops; postocellar line 
slightly exceeding ocello-ocular line; antennae slender, third segment 
subequal to upper interocular distance. Propodeum with the slope 
low, posterior third with a flat declivity; fore tarsus with three 
slender comb-spines, the apical one .5-. 7 X as long as second seg- 
ment. Anal vein of hind wing reaching media well beyond origin 
of cubitus; third submarginal cell of fore wing trapezoidal, narrowed 
by about half above. 
Male. — Length 8 mm ; fore wing 7 mm. Color of body, wings, 
and pubescence as in female except marks on inner and outer orbits 
larger and apical tergite with a small white spot; propodeum with 
a few inconspicuous short hairs. Clypeus 2.0 X as wide as high ; 
middle interocular distance .62 X transfacial distance; inner orbits 
strongly divergent from bottom, then abruptly convergent on upper 
third, upper and lower interocular distances equal ; ocello-ocular line 
slightly exceeding postocellar line; antennae slender, segment three 
2.1 X as long as wide, .6 X upper interocular distance. Slope of 
propodeum low and even ; wing venation as in female. Abdomen 
slender, fusiform ; genitalia with the parameres nearly straight, para- 
penial lobes very slender, curved, digiti clothed with very short setae 
(Fig. 7). 
Distribution. — Known only from Lima, Peru. The male bears 
data identical to those of the type except that it was collected 8 May 
1920 ; it is labeled as a paratype, but it is not really a paratype, as Banks 
makes no mention of this specimen. A female paratype [Mus. Comp. 
Zool.] also bears the same data except that it was collected 21 May 
1920. 
Austrochares chilensis new species 
Pompilus gastricus Spinola, 1851, p. 380 [in part]. — Reed, 1894, pp. 611, 
615. — Banks, 1947, p. 424 [in part]. 
Holotype. — 9 chile: Pudahuel, Prov. Santiago, 29 Jan. 1951 
(L. Pena) [Mus. Comp. Zool., no. 31678]. 
Description of female type. — Length 12 mm; fore wing 9.5 mm. 
