﻿BEES 
  FROM 
  CENTRAL 
  AMERICA 
  — 
  COCKERELL 
  439 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  Vachal's 
  A. 
  chorisis, 
  which 
  he 
  says 
  

   extends 
  from 
  Georgia 
  and 
  Texas 
  to 
  Brazil. 
  But 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  probable 
  

   that 
  his 
  series 
  was 
  composite, 
  and 
  Vachal 
  himself 
  says 
  the 
  Mexican 
  

   examples 
  are 
  not 
  quite 
  like 
  those 
  from 
  Brazil. 
  The 
  true 
  A. 
  chorisis 
  

   must 
  be 
  considered 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  form 
  from 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  Miss 
  Sandhouse 
  in 
  her 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  species'^of 
  

   Augochloropsis 
  (1937), 
  treats 
  A. 
  chorisis 
  and 
  seven 
  other 
  supposed 
  

   species 
  as 
  synonyms 
  of 
  A. 
  cuprea 
  Smith, 
  Some 
  of 
  these 
  I 
  believe 
  to 
  

   be 
  distinct, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  practically 
  certain 
  that 
  A. 
  chorisis 
  is 
  identical 
  

   with 
  one 
  of 
  F. 
  Smith's 
  species. 
  I 
  now 
  have 
  no 
  material 
  for 
  critical 
  

   comparison. 
  I 
  have 
  recorded 
  A.Jervida 
  Smith 
  (of 
  which 
  I 
  saw 
  the 
  type 
  

   in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum) 
  from 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  Genus 
  AUGOCHLORA 
  Smith 
  

  

  AUGOCHLORA 
  SEMICHALCEA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

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

   tints, 
  abdomen 
  with 
  greenish 
  bronze; 
  eyes 
  without 
  hair; 
  head 
  mostly 
  

   black, 
  with 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  face 
  and 
  front 
  purplish, 
  and 
  the 
  cheeks, 
  

   behind 
  the 
  eyes, 
  rich 
  purple 
  ; 
  no 
  groove 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  ocelli 
  ; 
  supraclypeal 
  

   area 
  projecting, 
  swollen; 
  antennae 
  black, 
  with 
  apical 
  half 
  of 
  flagellum 
  

   reddish 
  beneath; 
  pronotum 
  blue 
  above, 
  but 
  mesonotum 
  black, 
  dull; 
  

   scutellum 
  anteriorly 
  and 
  metathorax 
  purple; 
  hair 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  

   very 
  scanty, 
  dull 
  white; 
  tegulae 
  dark 
  brown; 
  wings 
  dusky 
  hyaline; 
  

   stigma 
  dull 
  red; 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  going 
  to 
  the 
  extreme 
  apical 
  

   corner 
  of 
  the 
  square 
  second 
  submarginal 
  cell; 
  legs 
  black; 
  hind 
  spur 
  

   simple; 
  abdomen 
  bronzy 
  green, 
  second 
  tergite 
  rather 
  broadly 
  black 
  

   apicaUy, 
  third 
  also 
  blackened 
  apically; 
  coppery 
  tints 
  on 
  second 
  and 
  

   third 
  tergites. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  at 
  Ipomoea, 
  October 
  29 
  (W. 
  P. 
  Cockerell). 
  

  

  T^/pe.— 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  58446. 
  

  

  At 
  first 
  I 
  thought 
  this 
  might 
  be 
  A. 
  cupriventris 
  Vachal, 
  but 
  a 
  closer 
  

   attention 
  to 
  the 
  description 
  showed 
  that 
  this 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  the 
  case. 
  

   The 
  description 
  of 
  A. 
  costaricensis 
  Friese 
  suggests 
  this 
  species, 
  but 
  

   that 
  species 
  has 
  hairy 
  eyes, 
  and 
  beautiful 
  green 
  and 
  copper-red 
  tints 
  

   on 
  abdomen. 
  

  

  AUGOCHLORA 
  CUPREOTINCTA. 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  8 
  mm.; 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  bluish 
  green, 
  

   abdomen 
  brassy, 
  with 
  coppery 
  tints; 
  hair 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  scanty, 
  

   duU 
  white; 
  clypeus 
  prominent, 
  highly 
  polished, 
  but 
  sides 
  of 
  face 
  and 
  

   front 
  dull; 
  antennae 
  black; 
  pronotum 
  shining 
  green 
  above, 
  but 
  

   mesonotum 
  and 
  scutellum 
  dull; 
  posterior 
  face 
  of 
  metathorax 
  shining 
  

   green; 
  tegulae 
  black; 
  wings 
  dusky 
  hyaline, 
  stigma 
  pale; 
  legs 
  suffused 
  

   with 
  green; 
  tergites 
  without 
  black 
  hind 
  margins. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Uyaca 
  Peak, 
  about 
  5,000 
  feet 
  (W. 
  P. 
  Cockerell). 
  

  

  