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MELIPONA FULVIPES Gu^rin. 



Puntaienas, Costa Rica (F. Knab) ; S. Diego, Cuba (Palmer and 

 Riley) ; Gimntaiiamo, Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica; Rio Jacinto, D. F., 

 Mexico (Julio Riquelme). A poor specimen from F. Smith's collec- 

 tion is labelled M. fulva Lepeletier, but it is not that species ; accord- 

 ing to Ducke M. fulva is the same as rufiventris. Other specimens of 

 31. fulvipes, marked (one with a queiy) M. fasciculata Smith, are 

 from Belize, Honduras, and Izamal, Yucatan (Townsend). True 

 fasciculata, according to Gribodo, is a variety of M. interrupta. 



IQd. Male like M. fulvipes, but clypeus pale yellow with two broad 

 dark bars (in male of fulvipes from Gualan, Guatemala, it is black 

 with the lower corners pale yellow). 



MELIPONA LIGATA Say. 



San Rafael, Mexico, middle of July (C. H. T. Townsend). 



lb. Abdomen without pale bands, or at most apical margins of 

 segments slightly discolored, or {M. interinipta ohUtesccns) there are 

 fragments of bands. {M. rufiventris has extremely slender pale 

 bands.) 



17a. Abdomen clear or rather dusky fulvous or ferruginous. 



18a. Hair of mesothorax mainly or wholly black or dark fuscous. 



MELIPONA SEMINIGRA Friese. 



Para, Brazil, and Obidos, Amazons; determined by Friese. Pleura 

 with a patch of fulvous hair ; abdomen shining, polished. 



MELIPONA ABUNENSIS CockcrelL 



Rio Madeira, Abuna, Brazil. Allied to the last, but the scutellum 

 is entirely black. 



MELIPONA FASCIATA MELANOPLEURA. new subspecies (variety?). 



Like /¥. fasciata cosfaricensis, with the same dark hair on pleura 

 (which separates it at once from the other forms falling in this sec- 

 tion of the table), but abdomen ferruginous, the pale bands very 

 obscure, the third and fourth segments with fine appressed golden 

 hairs. The face is practically immaculate. The hair of head and 

 thorax above is mostly black. Length about 10 mm. 



Pozo Azul, Costa Rica, June 15, 1902 (M. A. Carriker). I had 

 marked this as quite distinct from M. fasciata, though allied; but 

 there are so many intermediate forms that it seems best to treat it as 

 a variety. It is possibly no more than a dimorphic variation of 

 costaricensis. 



Type.— Cat. No. 21673, U.S.N.M. 



MELIPONA FASCLATA TRINITATIS. new subspecies. 



Like the last variety, but differing thus: Hair of pleura entirely 

 pale, with a fulvous patch; narrow line on clypeus and lateral face 



