The Humming Bird. 5 



aureis fortiter punctatis, margine aureo ; infra cupreo micante 

 tibiis cupreo-violacis ; tarsis caerulei virescentibus ; antennis 

 fuscis. 



Long, I inch 4 lines. 



Male. — Upperside golden-green. Head and thorax minutely 

 and profusely punctured all over ; clypeus of the same colour, 

 and also minutely punctured ; elytrae strongly punctured all 

 over; some of these punctures are irregular, others disposed 

 in five longtitudinal striae, the base of the elytrae and pygi- 

 dium more golden than the rest, the last one with a bright 

 golded margin. Underside brilliant metallic coppery-red ; 

 tibiae dull coppery-purple with brilliant green spots where 

 they join ; tarsi and claws metallic verditer-blue, almost 

 purple-blue in certain lights ; antennae rufous. 



Female. — Of the same colour, but more oval in form and 

 slightly shorter ; the striae on the elytra not so apparent ; 

 the underside very brilliant, not so coppery as in the male, 

 more golden ; tibiae greenish ; tarsi and claws like the male, 

 excepting in one specimen in which they are dark metallic 

 green with a very slight bluish tinge. 



Types in Boucard's Museum. 



This fine new species of Plusiotis was collected at 

 Natlanqui and Tulancigo, Mexico, and was sent to me by the 

 well-known collector, Mr. Hoge, to whom I have the pleasure 

 to dedicate it. 



LIST OF HUMMING BIRDS COLLECTED 



AT CALI AND RIO DAGUA, COLOMBIA, 



BY W. H. Rosenberg. 



Mr. W. H. Rosenberg, a new Zoological Collector, 

 just returned from Colombia w^ith a fine Collection of Zoolo- 

 gical Specimens, chiefly Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Reptiles, 

 and Birds, containing many new species, has disposed of his 

 birds in my favour. I intend to publish a complete list of the 

 species as soon as possible, but meanwhile I give the list of 

 the Humming Birds which he collected at my special in- 

 stigation. Among them are two remarkable new species, 

 which I have just described in the GENERA OF HUMMING 

 Birds, now concluded. The places where Mr. Rosenberg 



