78 HYMENOPTERA. 



hyaline, dark fuscous, the legs dark metallic green, the tibial 

 and tarsi dark rufo-piceous, clothed with black pubescence ; the 

 apex of the abdomen covered with black pubescence ; the ab- 

 domen is higldy pohshed and brilliant, and very closely deli- 

 cately punctured. 

 Hab. Jamaica. 



14. AuGOCHLORA Vesta, n. s. B.M. 

 Female. Length 3^ lines. — Head and thorax golden-green, 



verj' closely and rather strongly punctured, the clypeus has large 

 deep punctures, the flagellum beneath testaceous towards the 

 apex. The base of the metathorax not enclosed, slightly rough- 

 ened, the truncation shining and having a few scattered punc- 

 tures, the sides closely and strongly punctured ; the outer margin 

 of the tegulaj dark piceous, vrmgs fulvo-hyaline, the nervures 

 testaceous ; legs obscure metallic green, covered with dark fuscous 

 pubescence. Abdomen co])pery-red, shining and strongly punc- 

 tured, the apical margins of the segments fi-inged with short ful- 

 vous pubescence; a longer pubescence of the same colour is 

 thinly scattered over the whole abdomen ; beneath more or less 

 of a brassy-green, sometimes rufo-testaceous, not metaUic. 

 Hab. Columbia. 



15. AuGOCHLORA METALLICA. B.M. 



Andrena metallica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 309. 7- 

 Megilla metallica, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 332. 19. 

 Hab. Columbia. 



16. AuGOCHLORA Floralia, n. s. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. — Splendid blue-green, the disk of 

 the thorax having a golden tinge ; head very finely and closely 

 punctured; antenna; black, the flagellum fulvous beneath, the 

 mandililes, labrum and margin of the clypeus very dark rufo-tes- 

 taceous ; disk of the thorax finely punctured, interspersed with 

 larger punctxires, the anterior portion roughly punctured ; tegulae 

 dark rufo-testaceous ; nervures testaceous ; w ings hyaline, splen- 

 didly iridescent ; the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax 

 has a number of irregular short shallow radiating striae, enclosed 

 by a smooth shining ridge ; the tnmcation smooth and shining ; 

 the tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous, covered with ochraceous pu- 

 bescence, beneath with fulvous. Abdomen, towards the apex is 

 a thin scattered ochraceous pubescence, most dense at the sides 

 of the anal rima. 

 Hab. South America. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



