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or cream-color; mandibles pale ferruginous; meso thorax rather less 

 closely sculptured; tegulae variable, pale reddish or darker; femora 

 and tibiae red, anterior femora metallic green behind ; tarsi yellowish- 

 white at base, redder beyond; venter of abdomen normal. 



Habitat. — wSt. Vincent, West Indies (JI. H. Smith) ; 5 females, 

 4 males. A variable little species, but I can not divide it into two. 

 This is what Ashmead reported as A. decora. Smith (error for decorata). 

 It differs from A. decorata in the dark nervures, broader second 

 submarginal cell, and in having the thorax and abdomen of the same 

 color. In the color of the legs, it resembles the Mexican A. cordise- 

 floris Cockerell, but that has lighter wings, a differently colored 

 abdomen, and a smaller, rounder head. The type female of ^4. 

 vincentana is labeled as coming from an altitude of 500 feet. One of 

 the males is from Kingstown. 



Type-specimen.— Ca^t. No. 12869, U.S.N.M. 



AUGOCHLORA CYANEOVIRIDIS Ashmead. 



I have before me two females of the original lot, irom St. Vincent. 

 The hind spur is microscopically serrate, with dark teeth; there are 

 no vibrissas. The second submarginal cell is very narrow. Easily 

 known from A. vincentana by its larger size and dark legs. Com- 

 pared with A. antillana, it is smaller, and the area of the meta- 

 thorax has fine longitudinal strise, quite different from the transverse 

 curved striae of antillana. 



The three following are superficially much alike, and might be 

 taken for the same species without close examination. They may 

 be separated as follows: 



Area of metathorax with transverse curved striae antillana 



Area of metathorax with longitudinal striae 1 



1. Longitudinal striae extending to, or almost to, the margin of the area; wings very 



dark huscki 



Longitudinal striae in the middle extending less than halfway to margin of area; 



wings not dark cubana 



AUGOCHLORA ANTILLANA, new species. 



Female. — Length nearly 9 nnn., rather robust, deep blue-green, 

 the abdomen shining with purple reflections, and even some magenta 

 patches on the middle of the first two segments; head and thorax 

 granular-])unctate, the vertex and mesothorax dullish, the latter 

 under the compountl microscope appears as if densely, deeply, and 

 confluently malleate; head rather large, oblong, the face evidently 

 longer than in A. piscatoria; clypeus purple-tinted, with scattered 

 very strong punctures, the anterior margin somewhat depressed and 

 very narrowly black; lahrum black, shining, with two low bosses, 

 its lower part striato-punctate; mandibles very broad, swollen below, 



