Dec, 1914] Cockerell: Bees From Ecuador and Peru. 311 



Megachile ecuadoria Friese. 



Matucana, Peru, 2 males, June-July, 1913, 7,300 ft. (Bnies). 



The specimens are a little larger than Friese describes, but other- 

 wise agree with the description. As Friese remarks, the insect much 

 resembles M. poUinosa Spinola, but the red hair covering apex of 

 abdomen is distinctive. 



Coelioxys haematura new species. 



Female. — Length a little over 10 mm. ; head black; sides of face and front 

 with broad bands of dense pale ochreous hair ; cheeks with white hair, becom- 

 ing yellowish above ; mandibles chestnut red ; clypeus with lower margin faintly 

 concave, not emarginate ; antennae black; hair on eyes short; thorax black 

 below, but upper part of pleura largely red, as also the sharply pointed tuber- 

 cles ; mesothorax with anterior half red except in middle, the middle section 

 with small scattered punctures, larger posteriorly, the sides with large partly 

 confluent punctures, very dense in the median sublateral region ; scutellum 

 shining and impunctate in middle, with large scattered punctures at sides ; a 

 large broad-triangular upwardly directed median tooth on hind margin of 

 scutellum ; axillar teeth long and straight, compressed apically ; pleura with 

 the usual vertical bands of dense pale hair, and the upper part hairy nearly 

 all over ; base of scutellum with a single (not divided in middle) pale ochreous 

 hair band ; tegulse deep ferruginous ; wings strongly infuscated, stigma dark 

 ferruginous ; legs entirely bright red, anterior coxae with small tubercles ; 

 abdomen bright ferruginous, with broad dorsal black patches on segments 2 

 to 4, and a round dusky spot on the sixth ; hair-bands narrow and entire, 

 ochery-white ; punctures small and not dense ; last dorsal segment pointed, 

 moderately acute, the apical half strongly keeled ; last ventral narrow, extend- 

 ing far beyond dorsal, without evident notches ; venter keeled, the fifth seg- 

 ment with excessively minute punctures, its margin fringed with white hair. 



Habitat. — Guayaquil, May-June, 1913 (Brues). 

 Very close to C. asteca Cresson, differing hardly at all, except in 

 the quite distinct character of the clypeus. 



Coelioxys leucochrysea new species. 



Male. — Length about 9 mm. ; black, the tegulse and legs bright ferruginous, 

 the ventral surface of the abdomen dark ferruginous ; eyes dark brown, with 

 short hair; face densely covered with pale golden-tinted hair, this extends 

 over front, but just before middle ocellus is a separated, heart-shaped patch ; 

 mandibles red with the bidentate apex black, and a spot of light hair at base; 

 cheeks with a broad smooth bevelled space below; antennae black; mesothorax 

 and scutellum with very large quite close punctures, and a fine median raised 

 line; scutellum very short, with a very minute apical tubercle; axillar teeth 

 well developed, curved ; bands in front and behind mesothorax, and a spot 



