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red liair ; hi'ncl spur of 5 witli very few long stout sjiines ; 

 apex of flagellum bright red ; eyes deeply emargiuate ; area 

 of metathorax with very fiue radiating strise. 



Agapostemon virescens (Fabricius). 



The type is in the Banks collection at the British Museum, 

 and is our common American species. The name dates from 

 1775, viridulus (Fabricius) from 1793. Moses Harris, in 

 his 'Exposition of Etiglish Insects' (1782), figures and 

 describes a male as Apis vitreus. The names of Harris have 

 generally been ignored, but they are as valid as those of 

 Drury, after whose work that of Harris was modelled. The 

 binomials appear in the index. 



Prosopis maderensisy sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7 mm. 



Black, with a broad, elongate, pale yellow mark on each 

 side of face, its ends rounded, the upper end level with 

 antennae, the lower (more mesad) above middle of clypeus ; 

 clypeus elongate, dull, finely aciculate ; mandibles and an- 

 tennse black, scape not swollen ; thorax with very scanty 

 white hair ; mesothorax dull, very minutely and densely 

 punctured ; area of metathorax with irregular, rather weak, 

 raised reticulation on basal middle, otherwise finely rugose ; 

 tegulse black. Wings sjightly brownish, nervures and 

 stigma piceous ; b. n. falling a little short of t.-ra. ; second 

 s.m. broad, receiving first r. n. near its base. Abdomen 

 shining, extremely finely punctured, without hair-patches. 



Madeira {T. V. Wollaston), Oxford Museum. 



It was labelled " n. sp. allied to signata." It is easily 

 known from signata by the delicate sculpture of the abdomen. 



AUodape mixta (Smith). 



The type of Prosopis leucofarsis, Cameron, in the Rothney 

 collection, is an AUodape. I assume that Bingham is correct 

 in referring it to the older name mixta, Smith. 



Length about 5 mm. 



Clypeus creamy white, with very small lateral face-marks 

 next to the lateral notches iti clypeal colour: tongue long, 

 linear; tarsi creamy white, front ones reddened ; .nervures 

 pah', stigma dark-margined. 



