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the tegulae posteriorly and the nervures rufo-piceous ; the legs 

 green, their pubescence pale, the apical joints of the tarsi pale fer- 

 ruginous : the posterior femora fringed with white pubescence 

 beneath. Abdomen shining, evenly and finely punctured at the 

 base, but with shallow punctures beyond the second segment ; be- 

 neath, the segments are fringed with pale fulvous pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil, St. Paulo. 



7. Augochlora feronia. 



Female. Length 3j lines. — Head and thorax green, legs black, ab- 

 domen obscurely green. Head and thorax with fine confluent 

 punctures ; the clypeus produced, and with a few strong punctures, 

 fringed at the apex with a few fulvous hairs. The metathorax 

 with the enclosed space at its base with short radiating striae, 

 beyond very finely and very closely punctured ; wings subhyaline, 

 with dark nervures, and faintly clouded at their apex ; the coxae 

 beneath tinted with green ; the legs with black pubescence. Ab- 

 domen black at the base, and with tints of green in different 

 lights ; the third and fourth segments green, with their apical 

 margins more or less black, the apex black ; beneath black, with 

 the margins of the segments rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Brazil, Constancia. 



8. Augochlora calypso. 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Bright green, the segments of the ab- 

 domen with a narrow pale fulvous marginal fringe. The face with 

 very fine confluent punctures above the antennae, below their in- 

 sertion the puncturing is stronger ; the clypeus slightly produced, 

 with strong punctures, its apex usually dark purple; antennae 

 rufo-piceous ; the mandibles ferruginous in the middle. Thorax 

 closely punctured; the metathorax truncate, the truncation very 

 bright and shining, and having a few fine shallow punctures ; the 

 base of the metathorax with short radiating striae enclosed by a 

 sharp shining ridge ; wings fulvo -hyaline, the nervures and tegulae 

 rufo-testaceous ; the legs with pale fulvous pubescence ; the tarsi 

 rnfo-testaceous. Abdomen shining, with very fine punctures on 

 the basal segment ; the first and second segments with a narrow 

 pale fulvous marginal fringe, on the following segments the fringe 

 is paler and less even. 



Hab. Santarem. 



9. Augochlora chryseis. 



Female. Length 3| lines. — Head and thorax blue, abdomen olive- 

 green. Head rotundate, very finely punctured, the clypeus slightly 

 produced and coarsely punctured at the apex, which is black. 



