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sharp margin ; tegulae reddish. Wings dusky, stigma and 

 nervines pale yellowish brown ; first r. n. meeting second 

 t.-c, Lfgs reddish pi,ceous, with pale pubescence ; hind 

 spur simple. Abdomen shining, thinly hairy, with very 

 small punctures; first dorsal segment with a low tubercle 

 on middle of disc ; first ventral segment with a long slender 

 spine ; last dorsal segment with fuscous hair. 



San Julian, Venezuela, July 19, 1900 (Jf. W. Lijon, Jr.). 

 ILS. Nat, Museum. 



Nearest to the Mexican A. zophodes {Haliclus zophodes, 

 Vachal), but distinguished by the smooth and shining 

 surface of clypeus, with well-separated punctures. The 

 tubercle on the first dorsal segment of abdomen recalls the 

 Austialian Halictus mirandus, Ckll. 



Agapostemon vieqiiesensis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 8 mm., anterior wing 6. 



liead and thorax brilliant bluish green ; lower margin of 

 clypeus broadly black ; labruiii and mandibles red, the latter 

 black sul)apically ; sides of face and front suffused with 

 ])urple-blue ; flagellum dull ferruginous beueath, but the 

 last joint bright ferruginous on both sides ; clypeus and 

 su!)raclypeal area shining ; mesothorax dull, minutely granu- 

 lar ; scutellum rather yellowish green, shining^ somewhat 

 bigibbous; area of metathorax purple, poorly defined, with 

 obscure rugae; posterior truncation bright green, witli a 

 sharp edge ; teguhe light ferruginous. Wings dusky 

 iiyaline, stigma clear honey-colour ; second s.m. receiving- 

 first r. n. a considerable distance from its end. Legs light 

 ferruginous, with pale yellowish hair, that on outer sides 

 of tibiae more or less fuscous. Abdomen mainly yellowish 

 green, with blue-purple shades on apical half, but the first 

 Three segments have transverse median bands of reddish 

 brown, where the surface is not metallic ; bases of segments 

 witli pale to iientum ; venter mainly pale fulvous. 



Vieques Island, Porto Rico, West Indies, Feb. 1899 

 (Auff. Busck). U.S. Nat. Museum. 



In Vachal's table it runs out at 11, and it is scarcely to 

 be compared with any described species. The extreme 

 bases of the abdominal segments are testaceous, but the 

 apical margins sliding over them are not noticeably dis- 

 coloured. 



Neocorynura discolor (Smith). 



Atigochlora tisiphone, Gribodo, is a synonym. Smith's 



