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FOKEIGN BEES. 
EUGLOSSA AXALIS. 
Plate XIX. Fig. 2. 
Thf. figure referred to represents a small and very 
brilliant Euglossa, which we have the pleasure of 
figuring and describing for the first time. In length 
it is not quite half an inch, and the wings expand 
about three quarters of an inch. The head and 
thorax on the upper side are punctured, and of an 
intense rich blue ; the clypeus at the sides, labrum 
and mandibles white ; underside of the thorax rich 
green ; the surface of the abdomen is finely and 
closely punctured, tbe colour purple, the terminal 
segments being brilliant golden-green, especially on 
the underside ; the wings are slightly stained with 
brown ; the second submarginal cell receives the 
first recurrent nerve ; the second recurrent nerve 
being confluent with the nerve which closes the third 
submarginal cell posteriorly ; the legs are rich blue 
and shining, the anterior tarsi with long white pile ; 
the posterior tibite are very broad, compressed and 
punctured, having an impression on the upper edge 
in the middle, from which an impressed line extends 
parallel with the edge nearly to the tip ; the basal 
joint of the tarsi is broadly triangular and com- 
pressed. 
This beautiful insect is from the collection of the 
Rev. F. W. Hope, and is a native of Brazil. It is 
related to the Cnemidium viride of Perty [Del. 
animal, artic. Brazilice , PI. 28, fig. 9.) 
