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2. I^rjrer ; punctures of mesothorax very 

 8j)ar>e ; alxlomen lijht yellow, the hair 

 ou apical segments f^nlden. (Santarem.) T. punetifron$, Sm. 

 Smaller ; punctures of mesothorax nume- 

 rous ; thorax quite dark ; abdomen pale 

 dull bro\vni>h, apical liair white or 



almost ; sropa of hind legs very large [Sm. 



and stronply plumose ExomtdoptU testacea, 



3. Expanse abiiut 19 mm. ; front brown-bluck, 



with a median yellow stripe; hind mar- 

 pins of abdominal segments darkened. [Sm. 



( J^b'*-) Tetrapediajlavipennis, 



Expanse 15 mm. or less 4. 



4. Face broader, colour darker; site a little 



larger ; hind basitarsii-s longer T. testacea, Sm. 



f^ice narrower, colour lighter, the meta- 

 thorax quite yellow ; size a little 

 smaller ; nind ba*itarsus shorter ; apex 

 of abdomen with brilliant reddish-golden 

 hair T.fava (Sm.). 



T. awainsonce runs in this table to Jlava, diflfering as already 

 stated. 



Augochlora jamaicanaj sp. n. 



? . — Length about 6 ram. 



Easily known by the enormous quadrate head, larger than 

 thorax, with very broad tace, swollen rounded shining cheeks, 

 atid small eyes, whicli are emarginate within. Head shining 

 brilliant green and purple ; thorax bluish green, minutely 

 rugoso-punctate ; abdomen short, pyritorm, brilliant purple, 

 not viltrissate, with a fine pallid pruinosity; area of meta- 

 thorax tinely but distinctly striolate, some of the strite curving 

 and meeting in the middle line; legs ferruginous, with palo 

 glittering hair; hind spur simple, bent near the base ; 

 mandibles large, sutFused with castaneous-red, and with a 

 large inner tooth ; antennae dark, brownish, much nearer 

 together than either to eye ; ocelli close together, in a slight 

 depression. 



Allied to A. elegans, Cresson (specimen from iS. Domingo 

 compared), but that has the head narrower and differently 

 shaped, eyes less strongly emarginate, striae on metathorax 

 different, &c. 



Very distinct from the Jamaican .1. rpgina, Sm., and 

 decoiata, !Sra. 



IJab. Jamaica; type in British Museum, from F. Smith's 

 Collection. 



