78 HYMENOPTERA. 



hyaline, dark fuscous, the legs dark metallic green, the tibiae 

 and tarsi dark rufo-piceous, clothed with black pubescence ; the 

 apex of the abdomen covered with black pubescence ; the ab- 

 domen is highly polished and brilliant, and very closely deli- 

 cately punctured. 

 Hob. Jamaica. 



14. AUGOCHLORA VESTA, n. s. B.M. 



Female. Length 3i lines. Head and thorax golden-green, 

 very closely and rather strongly punctured, the clypeus has large 

 deep punctures, the flagellum beneath testaceous towards the 

 apex. The base of the metathorax not enclosed, slightly rough- 

 ened, the truncation shining and having a few scattered punc- 

 tures, the sides closely and strongly punctured ; the outer margin 

 of the tegulae dark piceous, wings fulvo -hyaline, the nervures 

 testaceous ; legs obscure metallic green, covered with dark fuscous 

 pubescence. Abdomen coppery-red, shining and strongly punc- 

 tured, the apical margins of the segments fringed with short ful- 

 vous pubescence; a longer pubescence of the same colour is 

 thinly scattered over the whole abdomen ; beneath more or less 

 of a brassy-green, sometimes rufo-testaceous, not metallic. 

 Hob. Columbia. 



15. AUGOCHLORA METALLICA. B.M. 



Andrena metallica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 309. 7. 

 Megilla metallica, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 332. 19. 

 Hob. Columbia. 



16. AUGOCHLORA FLORALIA, n. s. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. Splendid blue-green, the disk of 

 the thorax having a golden tinge ; head very finely and closely 

 punctured ; antennae black, the flagellum fulvous beneath, the 

 mandibles, labrum and margin of the clypeus very dark rufo-tes- 

 taceous ; disk of the thorax finely punctured, interspersed with 

 larger punctures, the anterior portion roughly punctured ; tegulae 

 dark rufo-testaceous ; nervures testaceous ; wings hyaline, splen- 

 didly iridescent ; the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax 

 has a number of irregular short shallow radiating striae, enclosed 

 by a smooth shining ridge ; the truncation smooth and shining ; 

 the tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous, covered with ochraceous pu- 

 bescence, beneath with fulvous. Abdomen, towards the apex is 

 a thin scattered ochraceous pubescence, most dense at the sides 

 of the anal rima. 

 Hab. South America. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



