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AUGOCHLORA ANONYMA, new species. 



Female. — Length about 8.3 mm. ; splendid rich purple through- 

 out, on the legs as far as the base of the basitarsi; hind spur with 

 five long spines; flagellum very obscurely reddish beneath, more 

 distinctly at apex ; tarsi dull reddish ; tegulae purple, with a dark 

 red spot on outer side; wings dusky hyaline, stigma and nervures 

 ferruginous; first recurrent reaching basal end of third submar- 

 ginal. Mandibles obscurely reddened in middle and with a purple 

 spot at base; mesothorax dullish, rugose; area of meta thorax with- 

 out rugae; abdomen broad and shining, sparsely and indistinctly 

 punctured, the segments not vibrissate, surface thinly hairy ; venter 

 with last two segments dark reddish, the others steel blue. 



No Name Key, Florida, March, 1898, three females (G. N. Collins 

 and C. L. Pollard). 



Type.—Q2ii. No. 24890, U.S.N.M. 



Very distinct by the magnificient purple color, combined with 

 the pectinate hind spur. It belongs to the group Sericei, but will 

 not run in Vachal's key, because the hind margins of the abdominal 

 segments are concolorous, metallic, and yet there is a transverse 

 groove behind the ocelli. 



AUGOCHLORA MOSIERI, new Bpedea. 



Female. — A little smaller than A. anonyma^ but with exactly the 

 same purple color, so that at first I thought it identical, until I 

 noticed that it belonged to the group Oxystoglossi, with the hind 

 spur not pectinate, and the basal area of raetathorax presented 

 strong wavy rugae. Antennae black; mandibles strongly bidentate, 

 chestnut-red in middle; eyes very strongly emarginate; mesothorax 

 dullish without strong punctures; anterior angles of prothorax 

 moderate; wings dark fuliginous, stigma black; knees, tibiae at 

 apex, and tarsi chestnut- red ; venter of abdomen piceous, not me- 

 tallic, the apical segment highly polished; tegulae dark rufous with 

 a metallic spot. The hind margins of the abdominal segments are 

 very narrowly black, as in A. alcyone Smith from S. Domingo. 



Homestead, Florida, December 1, 17 (C. A. Mosier). 



Type.— CQ.t. No. 24891, U.S.N.M. 



AUGOCHLORA PALMARUM, new species. 



Fem,ale. — (Type). Length 8 to 9 mm.; bluish-green, the clypeus 

 and supraclypeal area yellow-green, contrasting with front and 

 sides of face; antennae black; tegTilae ruf o-piceous ; first recurrent 

 meeting second transverse cubitus ; legs piceous, anterior femora steel- 

 blue behind, anterior and posterior (but not middle) coxae green; 

 hind spur not pectinate; abdomen shining, hind margins of seg- 

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