NO. 2048. BYMENOPTERA FROM DOMINICA— CRAWFORD. 133 



Museum from Santo Domingo. As all three agree except for the 

 slight difference of this one character, it would appear that in this 

 species the amount of indentation of the last dorsal segment and the 

 exact formation of the two teeth formed thereby is not constant. All 

 three specimens are smaller than the measurements given by Smith, 

 being only 10-12 mm. 



MEGACmLE BINOTATA Guerln, 



Two females. 



COELIOXYS ABDOMINALIS Guerin. 



Two females and one male. 



HALICTUS, species. 



One male which could not be specifically named. 



HALICTUS PUNCTIFRONS, new species. 



Female. — Length about 6 mm. Head and thorax darK dull 

 green, with sparse brown hairs; abdomen brown; facial quadrangle 

 longer than broad, the clypeus produced, apically brown; supra- 

 clypeal area elongate running up to insertion of antennae; head and 

 thorax with exceedingly fine crowded punctures; dorsum of propo- 

 deum covered with shallow irregular thimble-Uke sculpture, at 

 extreme sides with three or four weak rugulas; tegulse dark brown; 

 stigma and veins vei-y dark brown; legs brown, tarsi more reddish, 

 hind inner spurs with about four long teeth; scopa on femora light 

 yellow, on tibiae darker, on outer faces of tibiae more brown; abdomen 

 strongly transversely hneolate. 



Habitat. — Island of Dominica. 



Type.— C&i. No. 16733, U.S.N.M. 



Tliis species resembles H. auratus Ashmead, which has a similarly 

 shaped head, but that species has the head and thorax green and the 

 dorsum of propodeum rugulose all over, etc. 



AUGOCHLORA IGNIFERA, new species. 



Female. — Ijength 7-8 mm. BrilHant fiery red; clypeus at sides 

 and the anterior margin narrowly greenish; mandibles at base with a 

 green spot; clypeus elevated and produced; clypeus and supraclypeal 

 area smooth, with large, sparse punctures; sides of face closely 

 punctured, above insertion of antennae the punctures becoming finer 

 and crowded; antennae beneath obscurely reddish; rear of head with 

 a carina separating post-vertex from posterior plane of head; meso- 

 scutum with punctures about as on vertex but anteriorly toward 

 sides the sculpture somewhat more rugose; scutellum with the 

 puncture finer and not crowded, metanotum with only a few setig- 

 erous punctures toward apex; propodeum with the dorsal face sepa- 

 rated from the sides and posterior face by being angulated ; the dorsal 



