1865.] 169 



Augochlora praeclara, n. sp. 



Brilliant metallic green ; abdomen oblong-ovate, tinged with bluish; wings 

 hyaline, apical third dusky; legs blue-green, clothed with pale pubescence. 



Female. — Head bright golden-green, finely and very closely punc- 

 tured, clothed with a short pale pubescence ; the prominence beneath 

 the base of antennas indistinctly punctured ; clypeus strongly tinged 

 with blue, depressed, subquadrate, sparsely and rather deeply punctured, 

 the anterior margin fringed with pale pubescence; mandibles purplish- 

 blue at base, piceous at tips; antennae dull black, basal joint purplish- 

 blue. Thorax bright golden-green, very finely and closely punctured, 

 sparsely pubescent; scutellum indistinctly punctured, clothed with 

 rather long, pale pubescence, slightly mixed with black ; metathorax 

 slightly tinged with bluish, clothed, especially behind, with pale pube- 

 scence, the base with a transverse, semicircular space which is covered 

 with fine radiating stria3, posterior face flat, subcordate, finely sculp- 

 tured, golden-green; tegulae blue-green, polished. Wings hyaline, the 

 apical third tinged with fuscous; nervures and stigma fuscous. Legs 

 green, more or less tinged with bluish; the tibiae and tarsi rather densely 

 clothed with short pale pubescence; apical joints of the tarsi dull tes- 

 taceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, much narrowed towards the base, 

 smooth and polished, green, more or less tinged with bluish, especially 

 on the apical margins of the segments which have a purplish hue in 

 certain lights; the base, sides and apex of the abdomen thinly clothed 

 with pale pubescence; venter flattened, blue-green, rather densely 

 clothed with subappressed, pale pubescence. Length 4 lines; expanse 

 of wings 7 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Augochlora elegans, n. sp. 



Green ; abdomen and legs bluish, the former subsericeous, with a splendid 

 violet reflection ; wings hyaline ; abdomen oblong-ovate. 



Male. — Head brilliant green, more or less tinged with bluish in cer- 

 tain lights, very finely and densely punctured, clothed with pale pube- 

 scence, which is long on the cheeks, and more or less black on the vertex 

 and occiput ; face subtriangular, depressed ; the prominence beneath 

 the base of the antennae large, elongate, rather deeply and very closely 

 punctured and margined on the sides and above with a deep violet hue ; 

 clypeus produced, quadrate, subconvex, more or less bluish in certain 

 lights, covered with deep and close punctures, the apical margin trun- 

 cate ; mandibles piceous, blue-green at base; antennae half again as 

 long as the head, entirely black, the scape clothed with whitish pube- 

 scence. Thorax brilliant green, finely, closely and uniformly punctured. 



