222 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEIMY OF [Marcll, 



feiTuginous at ends; labial palpi 4-ioiuted, ihe last joint smallest; 

 antennse dark brown above, yellow beneath, the scape long and 

 slender; mesothorax with very numerous minute punctures; scutel- 

 lum sculptured like mesothorax; basal area of metathorax micro- 

 scopically tessellate, the lines mostly running in a transverse 

 direction; abdomen impunctate; hind spur of hind tihice pectinate, 

 with only three teeth; tegulre pale testaceous; wings faintly dusky 

 at tips; nervures and stigma dark brown; first recurrent nervure 

 not quite interstitial with the second transverso-cubital, being just 

 the least before it. 



Hab. — Chapada, December, January; five examples. This 

 may be compared wuth A. nana Smith and A. festivaga Dalla 

 Torre, but it is quite distinct by the yellow markings on the abdo 

 men and other characters. It has a certain superficial resem- 

 blance to the genus Nomioides. 



AugocMora beatissima n- sp. 



?. — Length 5 mm. ; head cordate, shining yellowish-green ; eyes 

 only shallowly emarginate; clypeus with strong scattered punctures, 

 its anterior half testaceous, its lower margin with a fringe of 

 orange hairs; supraclypeal area smooth and shining, with a very 

 few punctures ; mandibles yellowish, dark at apex and extreme 

 base; scape piceous, flagellum dull orange-testaceous, except at 

 base; thorax brilliant bluish-green, the mesothorax and scutellum 

 purple; the hind margin of the mesothorax very narrowly, the 

 margins and a central band of the scutellum, golden; tubercles 

 yellow; tegulse testaceous, yellow at base; mesothorax and scutel- 

 lum minutely lineolate, with very sparse weak punctures; basal 

 area of metathorax not at all defined, minutely transversely 

 lineolate; pleura with scattered short white hairs; legs reddish- 

 brown, more or less dark; anterior femora apically, anterior tibiae 

 and tarsi, chrome yellow; hind spur of hind tibia pectinate; 

 wings dusky; nervures and stigma very dark brown; lower inner 

 angle of third submarginal cell a trifle greater than a right angle; 

 abdomen piceous, scantily hairy posteriorly, the hind margins of 

 the second and third segments broadly dark ferruginous. 



Hab. — Chapada, January; one 9. A beautiful little thing. 



