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red hair ; liinrl spur of ? with very hw long stout spines ; 

 apex of flagellum briglit red ; eyes deeply emarginate ; area 

 of nietatlioiax with very fine radiating stria?. 



Agapostemon virescens (Fabricius). 



The type is in the Banks collection at the British Museutn, 

 and is our common American species. The name dates from 

 1775, viridulus (Fabricius) from 1793. Moses Harris, in 

 his 'Exposition of English Insects' (1782), figures and 

 describes a male as A^^is vitreus. The names of Harris have 

 generally been ignored, but they are as valid as those of 

 Drury, after whose work that of Harris was modelled. The 

 binomials appear in the index. 



Prosopis maderensisj sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7 mm. 



Black, with a broad, elongate, pale yellow mark on each 

 side of face, its ends rounded, the upper end level with 

 anteiniae, the lower (more mesad) above middle of clypeus ; 

 clypeus elongate, dull, finely aciculate ; mandibles and an- 

 tennse black, scape not swollen ; thorax with very scanty 

 white hair ; mesothorax dull, very minutely and densely 

 punctured ; area of metathorax with irregular, rather weak, 

 raised reticulation on basal middle, otherwise finely rugose ; 

 teguljB bhuk. Wings slightly brownish, nervures and 

 stigma piceous ; b. n. falling a little short of t.-m. ; second 

 s.ni. broad, receiving first r. n. near its base. Abdomen 

 shining, extremely finely punctured, without hair-patches. 



Madeira {T. V. WoUaston). Oxford Museum. 



it was labelled " n. sp. allied to sujnata.'''' It is easily 

 known fiom signata by the delicate sculpture of the abdomen. 



Allodape mixta (Smith). 



The type of Prosopis /eucotarsis, Cameron, in the Rothney 

 coUection, is an Allodape. I assume that Bingham is correct 

 in referring it to the oUler name mixta, Smith. 



Length about 5 mm. 



Clypius creamy white, wnth very small lateral face-maiks 

 next to the lateral notches in clypeal colour: tongue long, 

 linear ; tarsi creamy white, front ones reddened ; uervures 

 pale, stigma dark-margined. 



