76 HYMENOPTERA. 



8. AUGOCHLORA PaPHIA, U.S. 



Female. Leii<;th 4 lines. — Ilciul and thorax golden-green ; 

 head very elosely punctured, the vertex fringed with fuseous pu- 

 bescence, a few scattered hairs of the same on the face ; antenna; 

 black, the flagellum beneath testaceous ; the disk of the thorax 

 finely punctured and roughened by an intermixture of large shal- 

 low punctures ; base of the metathorax smooth and shining, not 

 enelosecl ; legs dark rufo-testaceous, the coxae, femora and tibiae 

 being tinged with green, perceptible in certain lights, clothed 

 with fuscous pubescence above, with fulvous on the tarsi beneath, 

 the floccus griseous ; wings rufo-hyahne. Abdomen finely and 

 distantly ])unctured, of a blue-green, the margins purple, fringed 

 «-ith short fulvous hairs. 



Hab. Brazd. (CoU. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



9. Augochlora Cytherea, n. s. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Brilliant golden-green, head very 

 finely and closely punctured, the clypeus coarsely ])unctured and 

 of a puri)le metallic colour at the apex, labrum and mandibles 

 dark rufo-piceous ; antennae black, the flagellum testaceous 

 towards the apex beneath ; disk of the thorax covered with 

 punctures of various sizes, most strongly so anteriorly; wings 

 hyaline ; legs green, tarsi rufo-testaceous, their pubescence pale 

 fulvous above, bright fulvous on the tarsi beneath. Abdomen 

 ovate, very finely punctured, the margins of the first and second 

 segments depressed; thinly covered with pale fulvous pubes- 

 cence ; the fifth segment covered with dark fuscous pubescence ; 

 the anal rima ferruginous. 



Hab. Brazil; Banks of the Amazon. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, 

 Esq.) 



10. Augochlora Tarpeia, n. s. 



Female. Length 3 lines. — Black, with a purple metallic hue, 

 brassy on the cheeks, vertex and basal margin of the second ab- 

 dominal segment ; the sides of the clypeus brassy ; the flagellum 

 fulvous beneath ; thorax very closely and delicately punctured ; 

 wings fusco-hyahne, their apical margins clouded. Abdomen 

 somewhat brassy towards the apex, which is clothed with a thin 

 fulvous pubescence. 



Male.— Entirely of a purple metalhc colour, the head covered 

 with erect fuscous pubescence, the eyes densely pubescent, apex 

 of the clypeus and labrum yellow ; mandibles ferruginous, the 

 cheeks and thorax beneath have a long hoary pubescence. Thorax 

 thinly covered with long fuscous pubescence ; wings as in the 



