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sparsely clothed with fine whitish pubescence, longer, more dense and 

 mixed with black on the scutellum and metathorax ; mesothorax with 

 three finely impressed, abbreviated, longitudinal lines, one on the disk 

 and one on each side over the tegulae ; thorax beneath more or less 

 tinged with deep blue; scutellum bright golden-green, rather sparsely 

 punctured and somewhat depressed on the disk ; postscutellum blue- 

 green, roughly punctured ; metathorax slightly tinged with bluish in 

 certain lights, rounded on the sides, very finely and closely punctured, 

 the posterior face depressed, but not abruptly, less distinctly punctured 

 with a rather deep, longitudinal, impressed line, extreme base with a 

 transverse, semicircular, depressed space which is covered with fine 

 longitudinal striae, slightly radiating posteriorly; tegulae bronze-green, 

 polished. Wings hyaline, faintly iridescent, the extreme apical margin 

 faintly dusky ; nervures brown-black. Legs brilliant blue-green, clothed 

 with fine hoary pubescence; tarsi rufo-piceous. Abdomen oblong-ovate, 

 strongly tinged with blue, and with a beautiful violaceous reflection in 

 certain lights, polished, very delicately punctured, the apical margins 

 depressed especially on the sides and impunctured, clothed with a very 

 short, fine, pale pubescence, giving the segments a beautiful sericeous 

 appearance when viewed in certain lights ; the pubescence at the base, 

 the extreme sides and apex of the abdomen longer and slightly mixed 

 with black; venter flattened, blue-green and pubescent. Length 4} 

 lines ; expanse of wings 7 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. and Dr. J. Gundlach. Two specimens. 



Augochlora magnifica, n. sp. 



Green; face, legs and abdomen more or less deeply tinged with blue; abdo- 

 men oblong-ovate, the segments broadly margined at tip with violet: wings 

 hyaline. 



Male. — Shaped and sculptured as the preceding species; brilliant 

 green, clothed with pale pubescence ; the face more or less deeply 

 tinged with bluish, and above the antennae it is of a deep, opaque, pur- 

 plish-blue hue ; antennae dull black, somewhat piceous. Thorax as in 

 the preceding species ; tegulae brownish. Wings hyaline, nervures 

 pale-brownish. Legs as in the preceding species, except that they are 

 more or less tinged with piceous and the femora have a violet reflection. 

 Abdomen oblong-ovate, polished, very delicately punctured, brilliant 

 blue-green, with the apical margins of the segments depressed, impunc- 

 tured, and broadly violaceous; extreme apex tinged with dull testa- 

 ceous. Length 4i lines; expanse of wings 7 lines. 

 Collection. — Dr. J. Grundlach. One specimen. 



