NO. 2264, BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 3—COCKERELL. 203 



Manaos, Brazil, four collected by Miss H. B. Merrill. The abdo- 

 men is considerably broader than in M. mimetica. 

 Type.— Cfit. No. 21G75, U.S.N.M. 



MELIPONA MIMETICA Cockerell. 



Guayaquil, Ecuador (Brues). Wlien publishing this species I 

 suggested that Friese might have mixed it with his M. fuscipes, 

 rrhich he said was very rarely fulvous-haired. This surmise proves 

 correct, as a specimen of 31. Tnimetica from Guayaquil (Buchwald) 

 is labeled M. fuscipes by Friese. True fusclpes, with ashy-fuliginous 

 hair, and conspicuous black hair on abdominal segments 3 to 6, is 

 certainly distinct. 



MELIPONA FUSCIPES Friese. 



Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, May, 1907 (G. P. 

 GoU). 



176. Abdomen black or dark. 



'22a. Hair of thorax above mainly or wholly fulvous. 



23(2. Abdomen with much fulvous hair; hair of scutellum bright 

 fox-red. 



MELIPONA NIGRA Lepelelier. 



Sao Paulo and Jundiahy, Brazil; determined by Friese. The 

 specimens from the two localities are not quite alike. 

 23Z>. Abdomen comparatively little hairy. 

 24a. Larger, mainland forms. 



MELIPONA SCUTELLARIS Latreille. 



Para, Brazil: determined b}'^ Friese. This has the legs dark, but 

 one form near Para (Miss H. B. Merrill) has red femora. 



MELIPONA SCUTELLARIS ILLOTA, new subspecies. 



Thorax above with much black or dark fuscous hair mixed with 

 the fulvous; legs chestnut red, hind basitarsus and apical half of 

 tibia black; clypeus red sutl'used with blackish, and with a faint 

 median pale line. Length, 10 mm. 



Palcazu, Peru; from Rosenberg. 



Type.— Cut. No. 2167G, U.S.N.M. 



246. Smaller; mainland species with yellow scutellum and axillae. 



MELIPONA CONCINNULA, new species. 



Length, about 9 mm.; black, with the hind legs, all the femora, 

 and small joints of tarsi ferruginous; scutellum and axillae light 

 yellow (not testaceous) ; mandibles light reddish, the blackened 

 apical margin simple; a large bright ferruginous patch at lower 

 end of cheeks beneath; clypeus dull, minutely roughened, with a 

 broad median cream-colored stripe (not reaching upper end) and a 

 spot at each extreme side; a narrow cream-colored band along inner 

 orbits; scape with base and a line beneath to apex bright ferruginous; 

 flagelhim dull reddish beneath, broadly red at apex; front with pale 



