420 ^Ir. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



type was from Oajaca, and Gribodo^s -svas marked 

 *• Oajuea? '' {sic). 



The following species are now. recorded from new 

 localities : — 



Au(/oc/i/ora radians (Vaehal). Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta 

 Vera Paz, Guatemala, April 25 (Schwarz and Barber). 

 This is probably the same as the so-called A. vesta from 

 iMcxico in the British jNIuseum, but it is not true 

 vesta. 

 A. fervida, Smith. Tlahnalilo, Duraugo, Mexico, at 



peach blossoms (A. W. Morrill). 

 A. illiistris (Vaehal). Colombia, from C. F. Baker 



collection. 

 A. phmmono'e (Schrottky). Sapucav, Paraguay, March 



{fV. T. Foster). 

 A. nigrocyanea, Ckll. Tampico, Taraaulipas, Mexico, 



Dec. 6 (F. C. Bishopp). 

 A. esox (Vaehal). Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama, Jan. 18 



{Aug. Busck). 



A. seniinigra, Ckll. Cordoba, Mexico, Jan. 20 {F.Kndb). 



The A. nigrocyanea females from Tampico are variable ; 



oue has strong purple tints on apical part of al)domen, 



which the other lacks ; the latter has the mesothorax black. 



Xenoylossa howardi, sp. n. 



S • (T^'ypfi-) — Length about 12 mm., anterior wing 9. 



Black, incliidiiig the clypeus and anteuna3 ; mandibles 

 fulvous apically, bidentate, but with a slight notch on inner 

 side imiicatiug the rudiment of a third tooth ; labrum brown 

 at sides, covered with appressed pale hair ; maxillary palpi 

 5-joiuted ; hair of head long and creamy white, with some 

 fuscous hairs on vertex and below antennae ; hair of thorax 

 above clear reddish fulvous, without black ; a large patch 

 on middle of mesopleura, and tubercles, with dark fuscous 

 hair; tegulaj ferruginous. Wings dusky. Legs black, the 

 spurs stramineous, and tarsi at apex ferruginous ; hair of 

 middle and posterior tibiae and tarsi dark brown, but the 

 femora and anterior legs with pale hair. Abdomen shining 

 black, minutely punctured, hind margins of segments 2 to 4 

 sutt'usedly reddened ; no hair-bands, but base of second 

 ^egnlent at sides with thin greyish hair; venter with thin 

 whitish hair. 



$ . — Length about 12'5 mm. 



Similar to the male, but all the legs with dark brown 



