Monographie der Bienengattungen Megacilissa, Caupolicana, Diphaglossa und Oxaea. Jl 



»The shape of this remarkable insect is very similar to that of Apis mellifica cT, 

 but the oral organs, as far as can be examined, seem to refer it to Andrenidae and the 

 neuration of the wings to Megacilissa Sm.« 



15. Megacilissa subaurata Cress. 



1869. Megacilissa? subaurata Cresson, cT, Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, II, pag. 296. 



»cf . This is like the preceding (nigrescens) species in shape, but differs by the 

 pubescence of the head, thorax, legs, base and apex of abdomen and venter being 

 yellowish-fulvous, that on face and anterior margin of thorax above being somewhat 

 golden; that on vertex and rest of thorax above mixed with blackish and that on the 

 cheeks, occiput, base of abdomen and venter palest; legs pale fulvous, dusky at base, 

 the 4 apical joints of tarsi fuscous, 2. — 4. abdominal segments brown-black, almost 

 nude and narrowly margined at tip with white pubescence; the apical margin of the 

 I. Segment is slightly margined at tip with whitish. Long. 7 lines (~= 15 mm.).« 



Cuba. I ö (Dr. Gundlach). 



16. Megacilissa super ba Sm. 



1853. Megacilissa superba Smith, 9, Catal. Hymen. Brit. Mus., 1, pag. 124, n. i. 



»g. Black, the face denselv clothed with whithe pubescence, on the vertex it is 

 black and the posterior margin of ihe vertex is fringed with white; the apex of the 

 labrum ferruginous and covered with stiff ferruginous hairs. Thorax above clothed 

 with bright fulvous pubescence; onthesides, beneath, andon the anterior femora beneath 

 it is white, there is also a little white on the intermediate tibiae, the scopa very dense 

 and of a dull brown, otherwise the legs are thickly covered with short black pubescence; 

 the basal segment, of the abdomen clothed with fulvous pubescence, that on the 3 

 foUowing Segments is short and black, having a white fascia on their apical margins, the 

 5. and 6. covered with long black pubescence, the latter naked in the middle; beneath 

 black. Long. 9^/3 lines {= 19 mm.). 



»Patria ,not known'.« 



1 7. Megacilissa vestita Sm. 



1879. Megacilissa vestita Smith, cT, Descr. New Spec. Hymen., pag. 58, n. i. 



»ö''. Black and densely pubescent; the face and cheeks have a yellowish-white 

 pubescence, that on the vertex is fuscous. The thorax clothed with short, dense, ful- 

 vous pubescence; the abdomen covered with the same above; on the metathorax the 

 pubescence is longer and paler; on the entire body beneath the pubescence is white, 

 faintly tinged with vellow; at the sides of the abdomen above the apical margins of the 

 Segments are fringed with white, onlv visible when viewed sideways; the tibiae and 

 tarsi ferruginous; wings hyaline, nervures black. Long. 6^/^ lines (^ 14 V4 rnni.j.« 



Peru. 



Im Anschlüsse an Megacilissa lasse ich eine Uebersicht der beiden nahestehen- 

 den Gattungen Caupolicana und Diphaglossa folgen. Bei dem geringen Material, 

 welches mir zur Zeit vorliegt, und bei dem nicht tadellosen Zustand der Exemplare muss 

 ich mich allerdings zum grössten Theil auf ein Referiren nach Spinola beschränken. 

 Ich hoffe aber, dass ich durch die Uebersetzung des Spanischen ins Deutsche (kurzer 



