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4. Augochlora acis. 



Male. Length 3| lines. — Bright green. Head with very close 

 more or less confluent punctures ; the clypeus with strong punc- 

 tures, and usually more or less purple at the apex, the apical 

 margin fringed with glittering white hairs ; the flagellum obscurely 

 fulvous beneath. Thorax punctured in the same manner as the 

 head ; the enclosed space at the base of the metathorax irregularly 

 striated ; the truncation coarsely punctured ; wings hyaline, the 

 nervures and stigma pale testaceous ; the tegulae sometimes green, 

 but occasionally more or less obscure rufo-testaceous ; legs green or 

 sometimes blue. Abdomen shining, with fine shallow punctures, 

 and thinly covered with pale pubescence, the second and third seg- 

 ments with a narrow band of pale pubescence at their basal mar- 

 gins ; the following segments with a fringe of pale pubescence on 

 their apical margins. 



Hab. Uruguay and Monte Video. 



This is a species that varies in colouring from blue to bright 

 green : the blue variety has the apical margins of the abdomen 

 usually green ; the bands at the basal margins of the second and 

 third segments are frequently obliterated. 



5. Augochlora atropos. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Head, thorax, and base of the abdomen 

 with more or less of a purple tint, the rest of the abdomen brassy 

 green. The head with rather fine confluent punctures ; the clypeus 

 produced, very convex, shining, and with a few large deep punctures, 

 its apical margin fringed with pale fulvous hairs. Thorax closely 

 punctured, the disk less closely so ; the enclosed space at the base 

 of the metathorax with short longitudinal striae, surrounded by a 

 smooth shining space ; the truncation smooth and shining and with 

 a deep central depression : wings subhyaline ; legs black, with 

 fuscous pubescence ; the posterior femora fringed with white pu- 

 bescence beneath. Abdomen closely punctured at the base, with 

 shallow punctures towards the apex, and thinly covered with pale 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo. 



6. Augochlora deidamia. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Green, the head, thorax, and legs brassy ; 

 the mesothorax coppery red. The head closely and finely punc- 

 tured ; the clypeus slightly produced, convex, and with a few strong 

 punctures. Thorax shining above, punctured, the punctures fine 

 and distant on the disk and also on the scutellum ; at the base of 

 the metathorax, which is truncate, there are a few short striae en- 

 closed by a shining smooth ridge ; wings hyaline and iridescent, 



