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10. Head and thorax above yellowish-green, with coppery tints, and 



much dark hair ; abdomen blue. 



CiBruleotinctllS Ckll. var. a. 

 Head and thorax above bluish-green or blue 11. 



11. Abdomen with strong green tints; flagellum bright ferruginous 



beneath ; one of the larger species... lligTOClypeatus Ckll. 



Abdomen purple or blue; flagellum less brightly colored, or 



dark 12. 



12. Abdomen broader, shining steel blue plumosus (Sm.). 



Abdomen narrower, duller, dark purple tricolor (Sm.) var. a. 



Euryglossa victoriae sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 10 mm. ; head and thorax black, the front bluish, 

 the metathorax dark green ; legs black with white hair, the knees 

 whitish, small joints of tarsi ferruginous ; abdomen broad and flattened, 

 with a satiny lustre, olive-green, with the sides of the first three seg- 

 ments, and a cloud on the fourth, chestnut red, on the second segment 

 the red is very extensive, leaving only the middle third green ; venter of 

 abdomen green, the margins of the segments whitish hyaline ; hair of 

 head and thorax rather dull white, but that on occiput abundant and 

 strongly yellowish ; clypeus flattened, with irregular large punctures ; 

 antennae very dark brown, flagellum reddish beneath, especially toward 

 the apex ; front finely roughened ; mesothorax pure black with strong 

 but sparse punctures, more or less in rows ; scutellum well punctured, 

 its posterior margin vertical ; area of metathorax shining ; pleura 

 rough and dull, greenish ; hind spur strongly dentate ; tegulas light 

 fulvous ; wings clear, stigma and nervures ferruginous, venation nor- 

 mal ; hair at apex of abdomen fuscous. 



Close to E. tricolor Smith, but larger, and differing in the 

 details of coloration. 



Hab. — Victoria (C. F.) . Turner collection. British Mu- 

 seum. 



Enryglossa perditiformis sp. nov. 



9 . Length about 5' mm. ; light lemon-yellow with dark markings ; 

 head broad, yellow ; apical third of mandibles dark ; antennal sockets 

 depressed, black, united by a dark band curving over supraclypeal area, 

 the dark color also extending as a rounded lobule on each side of the 

 antenna, and also downwards as a short band, the shape of the dark 

 area about the socket resembling a duck's head with the beak pointed 

 downwards; occiput black, and a black band across the vertex, hav- 

 ing a pair of triangular projections in front of the ocelli, and an exten- 

 sion part way down the orbits, so that the upper margin of the yellow 

 is trilobed ; front smooth and shining ; antennae brown above and 

 yellow beneath ; thorax yellow, with the sutures more or less black 

 lined ; mesothorax with three very broad longitudinal black bands, 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. (*26) AUGUST, 1910. 



