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mandibles at their base tinged with green. Thorax, the disk 

 smooth and having a few large scattered punctures and four ab- 

 breviated longitudinal impressed lines, the wings fusco-hyaline ; 

 the posterior tibijie and all the tarsi have a long thin griseoua 

 pubescence, that on the tarsi beneath is pale fulvous ; the claws 

 ferruginous. Abdomen of a blue-green in certain lights, the 

 three apical segments rugose. 



Hab. Java. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



16. Ceratina DUPLA.' ** cZ-- B.M. 



Ceratina dupla, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. 397. 



Hnb. Indiana, U. States ; St. John's Bluff, East Florida. (E. 

 Doubleday, Esq.) 



17- Ceratina l^ta. B.M. 



Ceratina Iseta, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. 138. 87 (1841). 

 Hab. Cayenne ; Brazil (Ega). 



18. Ceratina chalcea. 



Ceratina chalcea, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. 139. 88 (1841). 

 Hab. Cayenne. 



19. Ceratina punctulata. 



Ceratina punctulata, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. 139.89(1841). 

 Hab. Cayenne. 



20. Ceratina lucidula. B.M. 



Female. Length H hne. — Olive-green, very bright and 

 shining, the two basal joints of the antennae pale testaceous, the 

 llagellum rufo-fuscous ; the mandibles, labrum and anterior mar- 

 gin of the clypeus pale yellow-testaceous. The disk of the thorax 

 very smooth and shining, anteriorly are a few scattered large 

 punctures ; the scutellum has also some coarse punctures, the 

 metathorax closely and finely pvmctured ; the tegulae pale yellow- 

 testaceous, the legs of the same colour, the wings hyaline, the 

 stigma fuscous ; the abdomen has a short scattered pale pubes- 

 cence, and is somewhat coarsely punctured towards the apex. 



Hab. Santarem (Brazil). (Coll. W. W. Bates, Esq.) 



21. Ceratina maculifrons. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — OHve-green, closely and strongly 

 punctured, a spot on the clypeus touching its anterior margin. 



