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ochreous hair, top of head with ferruginous; mesothorax shining, 

 the punctures very minute ; hair of thorax bright fox-red, on ventral 

 surface white; tegulae ferruginous; wings dusky; legs with pale 

 hair, fringe on hind margin of hind tibiae black ; abdomen short and 

 broad, black, with dull surface, hind margins of second and following 

 segments broadly dark obscure reddish ; the very inconspicuous hair 

 of upper side of abdomen is black, with some pale; the venter has 

 white hair. Labrum whitish, not bicolored. Margins of mesothorax 

 partly pale. 



Eio Ma to, Caura district, Venezuela, October, 1909 (M. A. Car- 

 riker). The scutellum is shorter, less produced apically, than in 

 M. scutellaris. 



Type.— Cat. No. 21677, U.S.N.M. 



24(7. Small species of the Lesser Antilles. 



MELIPONA VARIEGATIPES Gribodo. 



Montserrat (C. V. Eiley) ; also four from Dominica. 



MELIPONA VARIEGATIPES LAUTIPES, new variety. 



Legs ferruginous, without the characteristic " variegatipes " mark- 

 ings. Length, 7 mm. 



Montserrat, March 3, 1894 (C. V. Eiley). A variation similar to 

 those recorded above in M. pseudocentris and M. f^avolineata. It is 

 doubtless recessive to the typical form, with which it occurs in 

 small numbers. 



Type.—Q^i No. 21678, U.S.N.M. 



226. Mesothorax with mainly black hair, scutellum with red; 

 lateral face-marks conspicuous. 



MELIPONA VULPINA, new species. 



Length, about 10 mm. ; broad and robust, black, including the legs, 

 except that the femora have a suffused red band above; scutellum 

 dull testaceous; mandibles ferruginous, the dusky margin simple; 

 cheeks wholly black; labrum pallid; clypeus entirely dull, its lower 

 margin cream-color except a small interval on each side of middle; 

 vertical stripe on clypeus narrow and obscure, not extending very 

 much above middle; lateral face-marks broadened below, conspicu- 

 ous ; scape long, black, with the extreme base red ; flagellum dull red 

 beneath, brighter apically; lower part of cheeks with glistening 

 white hair, but upper part, with front and top of head, with the hair 

 nearly all black; mesothorax with black hair, copiously intermixed 

 with pale ochreous anteriorly; scutellum and upper part of pleura 

 with very bright fox-red hair ; under side of thorax with white hair ; 

 tegulae red ; wings dusky reddish ; legs with pale and black hair, that 

 fringing hind tibiae black; abdomen short and broad, black, with 



