56 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



scutellum densely punctured, but with a smooth spot on 

 each side near the middle ; area of metathorax with stron-^ 

 plicse, formed as in A. charapina, but upper corners of 

 truncation rounded (distinctl}' angulate in charapina) ; tejjulse 

 green and rugulose, with a very large, smooth, purplish- 

 ])iceous spot (essentially the same in charapina). Wings 

 dusky, reddish ; second s.m. very narrow (not so in chara- 

 pina) ; first r. n. joining second t.-c. Tarsi with conspicuous 

 ochreous hair. Abdomen smooth and brilliantly shining, 

 with some golden tints, the punctures of the first two 

 segments very distinct, alike^ not at all dense ; discs of 

 segments with black hair ; vibrissas well developed, pale 

 orange ; second and third ventral segments brilliant greenish 

 golden; second ventral segment with the hyaline margin 

 very obtusely angled in middle ; third with a larger median 

 process, wiiich is broadly truncate; fourth apparently very 

 deeply emarginate, but the emargination filled by a hyaline 

 plate, the margin on each side of this fringed with orange- 

 ferruginous hair; fifth sharplv keeled in the middle. 



Hab. Rio Charape, Peru, 5000 feet, Sept. 12-16 (C. H. T. 

 Townsend). 



Closely related to A. charapina, but aside from the entirely 

 different colour of the abdomen there are several structural 

 differences which do not seem to be due to sex. In Vachal's 

 table (Misc. Entom.) it runs to A. notophas (Vach,), differing 

 apparently by the structure of the abdomen. I have seen 

 only the female of notophos ; it has a reddish abdomen and 

 appears to be distinct from the present insect. 



Augochlora nigromarginata (Spinola). 



Rio Charapa, Peru, 5000 feet, Sept. 12-16 (C. H. T. 

 Townsend). 



Augochlora [Augochloropsis) anquisita, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8\ mm., anterior wing 5|. 

 Bright blue-green, the mesothorax with two longitudinal 

 purple stripes ; first abdominal segment largely purplish in 

 middle, second segment with a median transverse purple 

 patch ; mandibles (except a little green at extreme base) and 

 a large semicircular patch on lower part of clypeus black ; 

 clypeus prominent, well punctured ; when the face is seen in 

 protile the supraclypeal area is prominent, forming an obtuse 

 angle ; eyes very deeply emarginate ; front and sides of 

 mesothorax excessively densely and minutely punctured ; 

 disc of mesothorax shining, with sparse small punctures ; 



