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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  67 
  

  

  in 
  the 
  Biologia 
  Central!- 
  Americana 
  (reference 
  above) 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  

   as 
  the 
  type 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  present 
  species 
  which 
  we 
  designated 
  as 
  

   No. 
  2 
  in 
  the 
  key 
  sent 
  to 
  him. 
  Mr. 
  China 
  has 
  kindly 
  furnished 
  a 
  re- 
  

   port 
  upon 
  the 
  entire 
  British 
  Museum 
  series 
  which 
  is 
  well 
  worth 
  re- 
  

   cording. 
  

  

  SERIES 
  OF 
  GARDENA 
  AMERICANA 
  CHAMPION 
  IN* 
  THE 
  BRITISH 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  Mexico. 
  

  

  1, 
  male, 
  Atoyac, 
  Vera 
  Cruz 
  equals 
  species 
  2, 
  that 
  is, 
  americana. 
  

  

  2, 
  female, 
  Atoyac, 
  Vera 
  Cruz 
  equals 
  species 
  6, 
  that 
  is, 
  caesonia. 
  

   3-8, 
  males, 
  Teapa, 
  Tabasco 
  equals 
  species 
  2, 
  that 
  is, 
  americana. 
  

   9, 
  female, 
  Dos 
  Arroyos, 
  Guerrero 
  equals 
  species 
  6, 
  that 
  is, 
  caesonia. 
  

   9a., 
  female, 
  Chilpancingo, 
  Guerrero 
  equals 
  species 
  6, 
  that 
  is, 
  

  

  caesonia. 
  

   Panama. 
  

  

  10-15, 
  males 
  and 
  females, 
  Bugaba 
  equals 
  species 
  4, 
  that 
  is, 
  

  

  faustina. 
  

   Guatemala. 
  

  

  16, 
  male, 
  Teleman, 
  Vera 
  Paz; 
  prothorax 
  sulcated 
  but 
  hypopy- 
  

  

  gium 
  mutilated. 
  

  

  17, 
  male, 
  Mirandilla 
  equals 
  species 
  2, 
  that 
  is, 
  americana. 
  This 
  

  

  is 
  the 
  type 
  specimen 
  figured 
  in 
  Biologia, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  pi. 
  10, 
  fig. 
  12. 
  

   Colombia. 
  

  

  18, 
  male, 
  Mazo 
  equals 
  species 
  2, 
  that 
  is, 
  americana. 
  

  

  19, 
  male, 
  locality 
  illegible, 
  equals 
  species 
  2, 
  that 
  is, 
  americana. 
  

   It 
  is 
  worth 
  noting 
  that 
  the 
  above 
  tabulation 
  agrees 
  in 
  the 
  associa- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  sexes 
  as 
  concerns 
  species 
  4 
  {faustina) 
  ; 
  and 
  it 
  strongly 
  in- 
  

   dicates 
  that 
  species 
  6 
  {caesonia) 
  is 
  the 
  female 
  of 
  americana. 
  For 
  

   the 
  present, 
  however, 
  we 
  will 
  allow 
  these 
  forms 
  to 
  stand 
  under 
  dif- 
  

   ferent 
  names. 
  

  

  GARDENA 
  CAESONIA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Eighth 
  tergite 
  only 
  a 
  third 
  a 
  long 
  as 
  wide, 
  bluntly 
  

   rounded 
  apically; 
  9th 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  almost 
  parallel-sided 
  

   viewed 
  from 
  above, 
  truncate 
  apically; 
  process 
  of 
  7th 
  sternite 
  long 
  

   triangular, 
  pointed 
  (fig. 
  113). 
  

  

  Length, 
  20 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Female, 
  Guatemala 
  (U.S.N.M.). 
  Paratype, 
  Frontera, 
  

   Tabasco, 
  Mexico, 
  June, 
  1897, 
  C. 
  H. 
  T. 
  Townsend 
  (Iowa). 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Female, 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  26729, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  GARDENA 
  CRISPINA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Coloration 
  as 
  described 
  for 
  the 
  genus; 
  hind 
  margins 
  of 
  

   sternite 
  7 
  and 
  8 
  moderately 
  emarginate 
  medianly, 
  of 
  7 
  slightly 
  con- 
  

  

  