1865.] 313 



punctures, the apical margin armed with four prominent, equidistant, 

 acute teeth ; venter deeply concave, bronze blue-black. Length 4 

 lines ; expanse of wings 7 lines. 



One specimen. This beautiful species may be readily recognized by 

 the elongate slender form, by the deep bluish color and by the abdo- 

 men being narrowed at base. 



VI. — Apical viargin of third abdominal segment with six teeth. 

 1 1. Chrysis clara, n. sp. 



Green, densely punctured, the head and thorax coarsely and the abdomen 

 finely: wings subhyaline: apex of abdomen armed with six acute teeth. 



Female. — Elongate, subparallel, rather robust, brilliant-green, some- 

 what tinged with golden, the abdomen with a slight blue reflection ; 

 head and thorax densely and roughly punctured, slightly pubescent; 

 eyes very large and subspherical; face behind the anteunfe much de- 

 pressed, pubescent, rugulose and bounded above by a transverse carina; 

 antenna; black, scape green. Thorax: prothorax with a shallow fovea 

 on its dorsal middle ; dorsal lines of mesothorax well-defined ; posterior 

 angles of metathorax prominent, flattened, strongly divergent, subacute 

 and claw-shaped ; tegulse green. Wing- faintly tinged with fuliginous ; 

 nervures blackish. Legs green, tarsi blackish. Abdomen robust, con- 

 vex, finely and very closely punctured, the punctures much larger and 

 deeper about the middle and extreme base of the first segment, which 

 has a depression on the basal middle'; extreme basal margins of the 

 second and third segments bluish-black ; apical margin of the second 

 segment golden, that of the third armed with six long, equidistant, 

 acute teeth, and immediately before the apical margin a very deep 

 transverse line which has several very deep foveae ; venter deeply con- 

 cave, and golden-green. Length 4J lines; expanse of wings 7i lines. 



One specimen. 



Description of a new species of Cuban LEPIDOPTEEA. 



BY CHARLES A. BLAKE. 



Papilio Grotei, nov. sp. 



Pap. Columbus. Gundlach. Herr.-Sch. Corr. Blatt. Zool. Min. Vereins. xvi, p. 



141. (1862). 

 Not Pap. Columbus, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. new ser. i, p. 98. (1851.) 

 Female. — Anterior wings black, with a curved, broad, iridescent 

 green band, extending from near the internal angle to the subcostal 

 nervure, broadest in the middle and tapering towards the internal mar- 

 gin ; three patches of the same color in the terminal interspaces be- 



