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sharp margin; tegulse reddish. Wings dusky, stigma and 

 nervures pale yellowish brown ; first r. n. meeting second 

 t.-e. Legs reddish piceous, with pale pubescence ; hind 

 spur simple. Abdomen shining, thinly hairy, with very 

 small punctures ; first dorsal segment with a low tubercle 

 on middle of disc : first ventral segment with a lon^ slender 

 spine ; last dorsal segment with fuscous hair. 



Sun Julian, Venezuela, July 19, 1900 (M. W. Lyon, Jr.). 

 U.S. Nat. Museum. 



Nearest to the Mexican A. zophodes {Halictus zophodes, 

 Vachai), but distinguished by the smooth and shining 

 surface of clypeus, with well-separated punctures. The 

 tubercle on the first dorsal segment of abdomen recalls the 

 Austialian Ha/ictus mirandus, Ckll. 



Agapostemon viequesensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm., anterior wing 6. 



Head and thorax brilliant bluish green ; lower margin of 

 clypeus broadly black ; labrum and mandibles red, the latter 

 black subapically ; sides of face and front suffused with 

 purple-blue ; fiagellum dull ferruginous beneath, but the 

 last joint bright ferruginous on both sides ; clypeus and 

 supraclypeal area shining ; mesothorax dull, minutely granu- 

 lar ; scutelluin rather yellowish green, shining, somewhat 

 bigibbous; area of metathorax purple, poorly defined, with 

 obscure rugae j posterior truncation bright green, with a 

 sharp edge ; tegulse light ferruginous. Wings dusky 

 hyaline, stigma clear honey-colour ; second s.m. receiving- 

 first r. n. a considerable distance from its end. Legs light 

 ferruginous, with pale yellowish hair, that on outer sides 

 of tibiee more or less fuscous. Abdomen mainly yellowish 

 green, with blue-purple shades on apical half, but the first 

 three segments have transverse median bands of reddish 

 brown, where the surface is not metallic ; bases of segments 

 with pale totnentum ; venter mainly pale fulvous. 



Vieques Island, Porto Rico, West Indies, Feb. 1899 

 (Aug. Busck). U.S. Nat. Museum. 



In Vachal's table it runs out at 14., and it is scarcely to 

 be compared with any described species. The extreme 

 bases of the abdominal segments are testaceous, but the 

 apical margins sliding over them are not noticeably dis- 

 coloured. 



Ntocorynura discolor (Smith). 



Augochlora tisiphone, Gribodo, is a synonym. Smith's 



