Dec, 1914-] Cockerell: Bees From Ecuador and Peru. 327 



Abdomen red or with strong red tints i 



Abdomen not red 2 



1. Thorax with golden or coppery tints 'c'esta Sm. 



Thorax entirely bright bluish-green vesta terpsichore (Holmbg.). 



2. Tbise and tarsi entirely clear red (males) thalia Sm. 



At least tibiae partly dusky or dark 3 



3. Hind margins of abdominal segments broadly black 4 



Hind margins of abdominal segments not black 5 



4. Larger ; hind spur of female pectinate binghami Ckll. 



Smaller; hind spur of female not pectinate metallica (Fabr.). 



5. Very small male ; hind tibiae red at base and apex ; abdomen narrow, sub- 



clavate cladopyga Ckll. 



Larger, length about 7 mm., or rather more; abdomen not subclavate. . . 6 



6. Punctures of mesothorax large nothus Ckll. 



Punctures of mesothorax minute niatucanensis Ckll. 



Lonchopria inca new species. 



Male. — Length io'/2-ii mm.; black, with abundant long hair, which is 

 dull white and black (the general effect grey), pale orange on inner side of 

 tarsi ; hair of face and cheeks long and white, white also on middle of vertex, 

 but a little black at sides of face, more at sides of front, and upper part of 

 front and most of vertex with black hair ; thorax with dull white hair, mostly 

 black on disc of mesothorax and scutellum, black also on mesopleura ; hair 

 of legs mainly pale, but black on outer side of tibis ; hind tibiae with very 

 long erect silvery hairs in front, hind basitarsi with extremely long hairs in 

 front and behind ; hind femora with black hair in front ; abdomen with long 

 loose white hair on first three segments, on third with black subapically, and 

 a narrow pure-white marginal band, interrupted in middle ; fourth and fifth 

 segments also with narrow white hair-bands, but the erect hair on fourth 

 white basally and otherwise black, that on fifth and sixth black, fifth with long 

 spreading white hairs at sides ; head broad, vertex strongly depressed on each 

 side of ocelli ; antennae black, rather long ; mandibles simple, broad at end, 

 the apex red ; malar space rather large, but shorter than broad ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum smooth and shining, with scattered extremely minute punctures ; 

 tegulaa piceous ; wings faintly dusky, nervures piceous, the narrow stigma 

 rufous bordered with piceous ; second s. m. broad, receiving first r. n. in 

 middle; third t. c. much bowed outwards; b. n. falling far short of t. m. ; area 

 of metathorax large, triangular, dull at sides, shining in middle ; abdomen 

 shining, with perhaps a very faint greenish tint. 



Habitat. — Two males, Matucana, Peru, June-July, 1913 (Ernes). 



In Friese's table this runs out, because the thoracic hair is mixed 

 white and black. Our insect is really close to L. rubriventris 

 (Friese), which it much resembles, differing in the larger size, long 

 hair on hind legs, much larger area of metathorax, etc. In L. inca 



