SOME BEES OF THE GENUS AUGOCHT.ORA FROM THE 



WEST INDIES. 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL, 



Of the University of Colorado, Boulder. 



The most recent catalogues of West Indian bees are those by 

 Friese, m Zeitschrift fiir Hymenopterologie nnd Dipterologie, 1902, 

 and in the Zoologische Jahrbiicher for 1908. The 1902 hst covers 

 the Greater Antilles, and includes six species of Augochlora, of which 

 one {A. 2>arva Cresson) has been transferred by Baker to the CJdora- 

 lictus section of Ilalictus. The number six is nevertheless main- 

 tained, as I have added a species (1909) from Jamaica, A. jamaicana. 

 The 1908 list includes the species of the Lesser Antilles, and cites five 

 species of Augochlora, the information being derived from Ashmead's 

 paper in the Transactions of the Entomological Socie<ty of London, 

 1900. By some accident A. alcyone Smith, from Santo Domingo, is 

 omitted from Friese's 1902 list. Following Ashmead, three of the 

 species of the Greater Antilles are said to extend to St. Vincent. 

 The whole West Indian list, with type-localities, stands as follows : 



A. decorata (Smith). Jamaica (female). 



A. iirseclara Cresson. Cuba (female). 



A. regina Smith. Jamaica (female). 



A. elegans Cresson. Cuba (male). 



A. jamaicana Cock.&Ye]\.. Jamaica (female). 



A. inagnijicaQvessoTi. Cuba (male). 



A. alcyone Smith. Santo Domingo (female). 



A. cyaneoviridis Ashmead. St. Vincent (female, male). 



A. claviventris Ashmead. St. Vincent (male). 



A. nigromarginata (Spinola), the graminea of authors, is reported 

 by Friese from Trinidad, but this island has a South American fauna. 



I have examined Smith's types at the British Museum, and ascer- 

 tained that all three belong to the group with the hind spur of the 

 hind tibia simple, or appearing so under an ordinary lens. The same 

 is true of A. jamaicana. Having some doubts about Ashmead's 

 determination of the St. Vincent species, I asked Mr. S. A. Rohwcr 



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