NO. 1717. SOME BEES FROM THE WEST INDIES— COCKERELL. 493 



strongly dentate, obscurely reddish; scape black; flagellum more or 

 less dull reddish beneath; eyes deeply emarginate ; keel between 

 antennae strong; hair of head and thorax short and inconspicuous, 

 scanty and white on cheeks and pleura, short and black on face, 

 vertex, mesothorax, and scutellum; tubercles conspicuously fringed 

 with short white hair; area of metathorax with peculiar sculpture, con- 

 sisting of semicircular grooves on each side, giving way to short ohlique 

 strise posteriorly; scutellum minutely rugosopunctate like mesothorax; 

 tegulse rufopiceous, green basally; wings strongly dusky, reddish, 

 nervures and stigma dark brown; first recurrent nerv\n-e joining 

 second transverso-cubital, but toward the inner side; legs piceous; 

 the coxae and anterior femora blue-green; hind spur microscopically 

 serrate, the teeth light; abdomen broad, without vibrissse, hind 

 margins of segments very narrowly blackened; venter piceous, with 

 pale hair. 



Hahitat.— St. Vincent, West Indies {H. H. Smith). The label 

 bears the number 2. 



Type-specimen.— Cdii. No. 12870, U.S.N. M. 



AUGOCHLORA BUSCKI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 10 mm.; head and thorax brilliant blue- 

 green; abdomen yellowish-green, with purple tints laterally, the hind 

 margins of the segments being very broadly black, the black largely 

 suffused with purple ; head and thorax very densely and quite strongly 

 ])unctured, the punctures of the mesothorax separately visible under 

 a lens; pubescence scanty, and poorly pr^^served in the specimen, 

 but evidently short and black or mainly so on face and head and 

 thorax above, pallid on ventral surface; head ordinary, not elongate, 

 cheeJcs hroad, and with a, small hut evident tubercle heneath; eyes deeply 

 emarginate; clypeus shining, with scattered punctures, its disk 

 purple-tinted, but its upper margin narrowly golden-green; mandibles 

 black, with a blue spot at base; antennne dark; scutellum closely and 

 minutely punctured, higihbous, with a 'median sulcus; area cf metathorax 

 with numerous strong longitudinal strix, wliich curve outwards a little 

 just before reaching its outer edge; posterior face of metathorax 

 didlish, without any sharp rim; tegulge piceous with a rufous spot, 

 the anterior base metallic; wings very dark reddish; stigma antl 

 nervures dark red-brown; first recurrent nervure joining secontl 

 transverso-cubital, but toward outer side ; legs brown-black, anterior 

 femora blue-green behind; hind spur microscopically serrate, the 

 teeth dark; abdomen only moderately shining; venter with long hair, 

 partly black and partly dull white. The claw-joints are ferruginous. 



Habitat. — Aguadilla, Porto Rico, Jan., 1899 (Aug. Busclc). A 

 distinct species, easily known by the chara«ters italicized. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No. 12871, U.S.N.M. 



