NO. 2264. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 3—COCKERELL. 195 



3a. Hair of thorax fox red. 



4«. Hind tibiae with a large yellow spot on inner side near end; 

 apicolateral margins of abdomen with black hair. 



MELIPONA ORBIGNYI Guerin. 



Villa Rica, Paraguay ; determined by Friese as M. quimjuefasciata 

 orhignyi^ but here regarded as a distinct species. 



4&. Hind tibiae without such a spot; face dark; clypeus dull, lu-t 

 polished; apicolateral margins of abdomen with white hair. 



MELIPONA PHENAX, new species. 



Ecuador (Baker collection). Labeled il/. anthidioides^ but not 

 that species. True anfhidioides is larger and has black hair on 

 thorax. 



Type.— Cat. No. 21661, U.S.N.M. 



4:0. Like the last but face marks light. 



MELIPONA SCHAUSI. new species. 



Length nearly 9 mm. ; black, including scutellum, but axillae with 

 conspicuous small yellow spot; face broad; clypeus very pale dull 

 yellow, with a pair of very broad dark brown bars, not reaching 

 upper end; pale yellow lateral face-marks filling space between 

 clypeus and eye, thence rapidly narrowing to a point on orbital 

 margin a short distance above level of antennae, more or le.ss notched 

 opposite antennal sockets; the small malar space with a minute 

 yellow spot; labrum reddish; mandibles reddish, the edge not den- 

 ticulate; scape black with a red spot at base; flagellum dark above, 

 ferruginous beneath; front with whitish hair, top of head with 

 hair partly black and partly red; mesothorax shining; thorax with 

 bright fox-red hair above and at sides; tegulae clear ferruginous; 

 wings reddish hyaline, nervures ferruginous; legs dark reddish 

 brown, hind tibiae suffusedly somewhat paler near end; hair of 

 legs mainly white, red on inner side of tarsi; abdomen black, with 

 five chrome-yellow bands, that on first segment reduced to a spot 

 on each side, the interval brown, that on second very widely inter- 

 rupted, the others with variable brown marks on the yellow sub- 

 iaterally; venter with shining white hair. 



Cayenne (French Guiana), from collection of William Schaus. 

 Resembles M. marginata Lepeletier and M. favosa Fabricius, but 

 laiown by the interrupted band on second segment and other chnr- 

 acters. 



Type.—Q^X. No. 21662, U.S.N.M. 



86. Hair of thorax black or almost, not red. 



6a. Tegulae piceous; face shining black, polished. 



