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EUGLOSSA CYANURA Cockerell. 



Female. — San Remo, Ecuador, 30 meters altitude (F. Campos R.). 

 Looks like E. variabilis, but the black spot on scutellum is very much 

 larger, and the labrum is shorter. The specimen has the mesothorax 

 brassy; the abdomen is emerald green in some lights and deep purple- 

 blue in others.* 



EUGLOSSA CORDATA (Linnaeus). 



This species is very variable and it is possible that several races 

 may be distinguished when adequate field studies and collections are 

 made. 



Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama (A. H. Jennings) ; Taboga Island, 

 Panama, June 13, 1911, and February 24, 1912 (Busck) ; Alhajuelo, 

 Canal Zone, Panama, May 28, 1912 (Busck) ; Experiment Station, 

 Matico Hernandez, near Panama City (H. Pittier) ; Paraiso, Canal 

 Zone, Panama, January 17, 1911 (Busck) ; Cayuga, Guatemala, June, 

 1915 (Wm. Schaus) ; Aquinares, Costa Rica, February, 1921 (A. 

 Alfaro) ; Cayenne (Wm. Schaus) ; Cumaragua, Venezuela (B. J. 

 Blanco). A male from Taboga Island, carries a pair of orchid pol- 

 linia on its back, so apparently the males may assist in pollinating 

 orchids. 



ANTHOPHORA ABJUNCTA, new Bpecies. 



Female. — Very close to A. acervo7'um pennata (Lepeletier), but 

 third antennal joint shorter (about 0.65 mm.; pennata about 0.95 

 mm.) and more robust; hair of thorax above bright fox-red, without 

 and black intermixed ; hair on first abdominal segment exactly as in 

 peiw,ata, but on others (dorsally) black or dark brown, with thin 

 bands of long pale fulvous hair; hair on outer side of hind tibiae 

 and basitarsi dark reddish grading into black. It is distinguished 

 from A. retusa Linnaeus by the red (not green) eyes, and the first 

 recurrent nervure joining the second submarginal cell far bej'^ond 

 the middle. Face without light markings; hair of head black, 

 grayish on lower part of cheeks ; venter of thorax with whitish hair, 

 but sides mainly with bright fox-red; tegulae clear ferruginous; 

 wings dusky ; small joints of tarsi dull red ; spurs red. 



Suifu, Szechwan, China (Graham). 



Type.— C^it. No. 24883, U.S.N.M. 



The clypeus is dull, and wholly without a median keel (such as 

 occurs in A. agama Radoszkowski). This is the sixteenth species of 

 Anthophora from China. 



* Male. — I hare recently identified three males from Ancon, Panama Caual Zone, as 

 this species. They have the scape largely pale beneath and the aides of the face nar- 

 rowly white. S. A. ROHWER. 



