LAPHRIA SERICEA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Above with golden-yellow hair ; beneath with 

 pale hair; thorax, beneath the hair, dark blue. 



SYNONYM. 



Laphria sericea. Nobis. Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, vol. hi. p. 74. 



description. 



Head black ; hypostoma and gena with gray- 

 ish hair, that of the former tinged with dull yel- 

 lowish ; vertex and occiput with black hair : 

 thorax dark blue, with golden-yellow hair, ra- 

 ther longer and somewhat more dense behind ; a 

 fringe of longer black hairs over the insertion of 

 the wings: pleura blackish; a few long, pale 

 hairs near the poisers : poisers pale : pectus and 

 feet black, hairy ; hair of the former long ; hair 

 beneath the anterior and intermediate feet whit- 

 ish: scut el dull chesnut: wings hyaline; ner- 



PLATE VI. 



