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square, the false proboscis nearly as long as the 

 body, and the labial pulpi terminating in a point 

 formed by the two last joints.* All the species are 

 exotic, and apparently confined to South America. 

 Several of them are nearly glabrous, (such as E. 

 dentata, and cordala,} in this respect deviating mate- 

 rially from the external aspect usually associated 

 with the peculiar structure which they exhibit. 



EUGLOSSA SURINAMENSIS. 

 PLATE XIX. Fig 1. 



Apis Surinamensis, Linn Abeille a ventre jaune, De Geer, 



torn, iii, PI. 28, fig. 9 Centris Surin. Fab. Drury's Exot. 



Ins. PI. 43, fig. 4 Euglossa Surin. Latr. Gen. Crust, et 

 insect. Zool. Humb. et Bomp. PI. 17, fig. 12. 



THIS species has been long known, as the above 

 synonyms indicate. It is rather a small insect, the 

 accompanying figure representing it a little enlarged. 

 The body is black, and clothed with a short very 

 dense hirsuties ; head and antennae black, the tongue 

 extending backwards as far as the middle of the 

 abdomen ; eyes brown ; thorax black ; the wings 

 tinged with clear brown ; nervures black ; abdomen 

 with the basal segment black, the remainder ochre- 

 yellow, appearing as if gilded ; the black colour on 

 the underside of the abdomen extends to the middle ; 

 legs black, the tibiae and radical joint of the tarsus 

 in the hinder pair broad and flat. 



Inhabits Surinam, Xalapa in New Spain, and 

 other parts of South America. 



* Cuvier, Regne Anim. v. 357. 



