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bescence, long and more dense on the cheeks, and pale ochraceous on 

 the face ; anterior half of the clypeus, labrum and the mandibles, yel- 

 low, the latter piceous at tips ; antennae as long as the head and thorax, 

 piceous-brown, dull fulvous beneath, basal joint beneath yellow. Tho- 

 rax brilliant green, clothed with rather thin pale pubescence ; meso- 

 thorax very finely and closely punctured, and in certain lights the disk 

 has a dull blackish shade, and a finely impressed longitudinal central 

 line; pectus and pleura rugose, golden-green; tubercles smooth and 

 polished with a semicircular pubescent space just behind them ; space 

 on each side between the pleura and metathorax transversely rugose; 

 metathorax irregularly rugose, more finely so on each side, the base 

 covered with well-defined somewhat irregular striae radiating posteri- 

 orly, the posterior face with a rather large, orbicular, depressed, bright 

 golden-green space, enclosed by a sharply-defined carina, the surface 

 somewhat rugose with a central line ; tegulse pale brownish or rufo- 

 testaceous. Wings hyaline, somewhat iridescent, the apical margins 

 slightly dusky; nervures fuscous. Legs yellow, pubescent ; coxae green ; 

 trochanters except a line beneath, tips of the femora, and the tibiae ex- 

 teriorly, dark fuscous ; tarsi yellow, more or less tinged with dusky ; 

 posterior femora elongate, robust but not globose. Abdomen ovate, 

 delicately punctured, bright green tinged with blue, the basal segment 

 more or less dull piceous; apical margins of the segments subdepressed ; 

 across the middle of the first segment an irregular, transverse, yellow 

 band, and at the extreme base of the second, third and sometimes the 

 fourth segments a regular, more or less broad, yellow band, below these 

 bands on the second and third segments there is an opaque blackish, 

 transverse shade; venter dull fulvo-testaceous. Length 3$ — 4 lines ; 

 expanse of wings 5 — 6 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Three specimens. 



Agapostemon Poeyi, Lucas. 



Andrena Poeyi, Lucas. Guer. LaSagra's Hist. Cuba, Ins. p. 775. 

 Female. — Brilliant green, clothed with pale pubescence ; head short, 

 rather broad, very densely and deeply punctured ; clypeus short, trans- 

 verse, the anterior margin black and fringed with long pale pubescence ; 

 labrum and mandibles piceous, the latter green at base ; cheeks coarsely 

 aciculate ; antennae short, piceous. Thorax very densely punctured, 

 somewhat tinged with golden; mesothorax very finely and closely punc- 

 tured, somewhat rugose; scutellum sparsely punctured on the disk, 

 shining, golden-green ; metathorax densely striated, the striae at the 

 base radiating posteriorly, those on the sides oblique, the posterior face 



