316 HYMENOPTERA. 



Female. Length 8 lines. — Head and thorax black, smooth 

 and shining ; the face has a pale yellow pubescence, that on the 

 vertex and on the disk of the thorax fulvo-ochraceous ; the wings 

 subhyaline, their nervures testaceous ; the legs pale fulvo-tes- 

 taceous, and clothed with short fulvo-ochraceous pubescence, the 

 posterior pair having a dense floccus on the posterior femora at 

 their base, and the tibiae having a dense scopa. Abdomen bright 

 green, the base, sides and apex having a scattered yellow pubes- 

 cence ; beneath fulvo-testaceous, the margins of the segments 

 thickly fringed with pale fulvous pubescence ; the abdomen above 

 is finely shagreened, the apical margins smooth and shining. 



Hab. Brazil. 



2. Ox^A FESTIVA. 



Female. Length 9 lines. — Head and thorax black, smooth 

 and shining ; the clypeus has a few scattered punctures, on each 

 side of which is a little short dense white pubescence ; the man- 

 dibles elongate, arcuate, the labrum having a central carina ; the 

 mandibles rufo-piceous, fringed below with short ferruginous 

 hairs. Thorax, the sides of the disk have a short velvety pu- 

 bescence, the wings smoky-hyaline, the nervures and tegulae 

 black ; the legs fulvo-testaceous, densely clothed with short fulvo- 

 ochraceous pubescence, the posterior pair having a dense floccus 

 at the base of the femora beneath, and the tibiae a dense scopa of 

 short pubescence. Abdomen brilliant green, very closely punc- 

 tured, most strongly so towards the base, the apical margins of 

 the segments smooth and shining, and having a brilliant golden 

 effulgence ; the fifth and sixth segments black, clothed with 

 black pubescence ; beneath rufo-testaceous, the margins of the 

 apical segments fringed with ferruginous hairs. 



Hab. Para (W.W.Bates). (Coll. F. Smith.) 



Genus 48. MELITTURGA. 



Eucera, pt., Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. i. t. 14. f. 14. 

 Melitturga, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. iv. 176. 



1. Melitturga clavicornis. B.M. 



Eucera clavicornis, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. i. t. 14. f. 9. 

 Melitturga clavicorais, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. iv. 176. 



Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. 455. t. 74. f. 3. 



St. Farg. Hym. ii. 172. 1 <? ? . 



Eversm. Bull. Mosc. xxv. 125. 1. 



Hab. South of France. 



