20O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '17 



New Bees from Costa Rica (Hym.). 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. 



Epicharis phenacura n. sp. 



$. Length about 21 mm.; anterior wing, 17 mm.; black, the head, 

 legs and abdomen (but not the thorax) marked with yellow; eyes very 

 large, orbits diverging below ; vertex and front with dark brown hair, 

 cheeks with brownish-white; mandibles black with minute yellow spot 

 at base; labrum, clypeus (except a broad black band on each side, not 

 reaching upper margin), semi-circular supraclypeal mark, lateral face- 

 marks (which are narrow, with a linear extension above), and nearly 

 all of front of the short and very thick scape, all light yellow; clypeal 

 ridges distinct, but obtuse; flagellum dark. 



Thorax with short dense hair, dark greyish-brown (seal-brown) 

 above, gradually becoming rather paler below, scutellum bigibbous ; 

 tegulae dark; wings fuliginous; upper and lower sides of second sub- 

 marginal cell nearly parallel, recurrent nervure joining lower side very 

 slightly beyond the middle; knees with yellow spots; anterior tibia 

 with yellow band on basal half; spur of middle tibia contorted, and 

 abruptly bent apically; tarsi ferruginous, more or less infuscated bas- 

 ally, apical joint mainly yellow; hind basitarsi broad and long, pale 

 reddish, with a prominent angle in front beyond the middle ; hind tibiae 

 and especially tarsi with long ochreous hair behind ; hind femora with 

 brownish-black hair. 



Abdomen not at all metallic; first segment with a narrow yellow 

 band, failing in middle; segments 2 to 4 yellow, except a broad apical 

 dark band; segments 5 to 7 honey-color; apical plate very large, nar- 

 rowly truncate at end. 



San Carlos, Costa Rica (Schild and Btirgdorf). U. S. Nat. 

 Museum. This remarkable species resembles Centris flavo- 

 picta Smith in many respects, but it has the structure of Epi- 

 charis. In Friese's table of Epicharis it runs near E. fasciata 

 Lep., from Bahia, but is quite distinct. 



Epicharis conura n. sp. 



9. Length 22-24 mm.; anterior wing 16 mm.; black, with conical 

 ferruginous abdomen (not marked with yellow), the first segment with 

 the dorsal surface black, but the basin (especially its margins) red; 

 hair of head and thorax mainly black, but becoming grey on cheeks, 

 sides of thorax and metathorax, quite pale on lower part of pleura; 

 mandibles black; labrum large, with three small yellow spots or a 

 large yellow triangle; clypeus with a minute yellow dot in middle of 

 the flattened, shining disc, and a pair of spots, more or less obsolete, 

 near lower margin; a small triangular yellow supraclypeal mark ; lateral 



