The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . a group of about six large punctiform depressions oneach side ; mandibles yellowish ferruginous towards the tips ;frontal fovese black grooves; facial quadrangle slightlybroader than long; vertex granular or minutely tessellate ;mesothorax and scutelluni smooth and very shiny, with a veryiew scattered punctures ; base of metathorax dark blue, con-trasting with the olive-green scutellum and postscutellum ;tegula; brown in front, wliitish behind ; wings clear, nervuresand stigma dark sepia-brown ; stigma pallid in the mi
The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . a group of about six large punctiform depressions oneach side ; mandibles yellowish ferruginous towards the tips ;frontal fovese black grooves; facial quadrangle slightlybroader than long; vertex granular or minutely tessellate ;mesothorax and scutelluni smooth and very shiny, with a veryiew scattered punctures ; base of metathorax dark blue, con-trasting with the olive-green scutellum and postscutellum ;tegula; brown in front, wliitish behind ; wings clear, nervuresand stigma dark sepia-brown ; stigma pallid in the middle ;recurrent and transverso-cubital nervures broken by hyalinedots; marginal cell obliquely truncate, the poststigmatalportion about equal to the substigmatal ; second submarginalcell narrowed more than half to marginal, forming an equi-lateral triangle with the upper angle cut off; third discoidaldistinct; legs black, anterior tibiffi yellowish iu front; abdo-men flat, shining black, with six round yellowish-white spotsat the sides of segments 2 to 4 ; venter (un? Perdita sexviaculata, Ckll. (J .—About 4 niillim. long. Very shiny, with thin white pubescence on the cheeks,pleura, and end of abdomen ; fairly abundant pubescence onthe legs, and widely scattered white hairs on the rest of thebody ; head and thorax dark green ; mesothorax almost Messrs. T. D. A. Cockerell and W. Porter on Bees. 417 black ; metathorax granular, dark bluish ; face yellow, yellowextending above the antennae half the length of the scape,but the dark colour sending angular projections into the yellowas far as the sockets of the antenna?; a yellow line (half thelength of the scape) runs up the anterior orbital margin ashort distance above the general level of the yellow ; a yellowband extending halfway up on the posterior orbital margins;scape yellow, tipped at both ends with light orange ; flagellutnlight orange, marked with black above near base; mandibleswith light brown tips and margins;
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