Records of Bees. 53H 



last ventral segment not keeled ; trochanters black, the hiinl 

 ones with a yellow spot ; hind tihiie yellow, witli a small 

 black mark in front and a larger one behind. 



Augochloi-a viridula, Smith. 



This insect has two forms, one golden-green, the other 

 blnc-green. j\Ir. N. Hanks has taken females of both at 

 Falls Church, Virginia : the gohlen-green at flowers of 

 CeanotliHs in June ; the blue-green on the 2nd of August, 

 flower not stated. Mr. C. Robertson has sent me the blue- 

 green from Southern Illinois, A. viridula was founded on a 

 male of the golden-green form ; A. Incidula^ Smith, on 

 females of both. I have some suspicion, though 1 cannot 

 produce any proof, that the two forms are distinct, but very 

 closely allied species ; if this is the case, it may be [)ermissible 

 to retain the name lucuhda for the blue-green one. 



Augochlora Banksiella, sp. n. {pura, subsp. ?). 



? . — Length 7-74^ mm. 



Brilliant green, the abdomen golden greon, the head and 

 thorax also with a golden lustre — no blue or purple ; 

 mandibles with a green basal spot; antenna dark, flagellum 

 obscure brown beneath : orbital marfijins stronfjly convorofinfT 

 below; tegulaj lusco-terrugnious with a green spot. Wings 

 greyish ; stigma and nervures testaceous ; first r. n. joining 

 second t.-c, second s.m. almost as broad as high, marginal cell 

 appendiculate ; area of metathorax with fine but strong strias. 

 Legs piccous, anterior and middle femora green on underside ; 

 hind spur simple, curved ; dorsal surface of abdomen nude, not 

 hairy, or rather with exceedingly scanty short pubescence; 

 no vibrissae ; hind margins of segments exceedingly narrowly 

 black. 



Very closely related in all respects to A. 2>ura, Say 

 {Robertsoni, Ckll.), but readily distinguished by the strong 

 golden tints and the usually larger area of metathorax. It is 

 perhaps a subspecies of ^4. pura. The male has the tarsi 

 ferruginous. 



Ilab. Glencarlyn, Virginia, May 4-July 20 ; one, June 21, 

 from flowers of Ceanothis -, Great Falls, Virginia, April 20 ; 

 Odenton, Maryland, July lb. All collected by Mr. Nathan 

 Banks. 



The -genuine A. pura I have from Ithaca, New York 

 {Banks) and Illinois {Robertson). In identifying the latter 

 I follow Robertson, but Say's original description could be 

 applied to either furm, perhaps agreeing a little better with 



