HYMENOPTERA. 



369 



6, Epicharis zonata. 



Male. Length 9 lines.— Head and thorax black, the scape 

 in front, the face below the insertion of the antennae white, the 

 labrum white ; a triangular black spot on each side of the cly- 

 peus ; the pubescence on the cheeks white ; that on the vertex, 

 and that on the disk of the thorax of a griseo-fuscous mixture, 

 at the sides of the metathorax it is whitish, that on the breast 

 black ; the posterior margin of the scutellum deeply emarginate ; 

 the wings fusco -hyaline ; the legs have a fuscous pubescence 

 beneath, the intermediate and posterior tibise and tarsi fringed 

 behind with long pale yellow pubescence, the apical joints of the 

 tarsi pale testaceous ; the claws, and also the calcaria ferruginous, 

 the latter serrated on their inner margins. Abdomen yellow, 

 the apical margins of the segments have a narrow fusco-ferrugi- 

 nous band. 



Hub. Brazil. 



Genus 59. CENTRIS. 



Apis, pt., Fabr. Ent. Sijst. ii. 314 (1793). 

 Centris, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 354 (1804). 

 Trachina, Klug, IlUg. Mag. vi. (1807). 

 Hemisia, King, Illig. Mag. vi. (1807). 



1. Centris H^MORRHoiDALis. — -C B.M. 



Apis hsemorrhoidahs, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 339. 106 5 . 

 Centris hsemorrhoidahs, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 359. 23. 

 Centris tabaniformis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 358. 21 c? . 

 Hemisia hsemorrhoidalis et tabaniformis, Klug, Illig. Mag. vi. 

 227. 



Hab. Brazil; St. Domingo. 



2. Centris flavifrons. ~— B.M. 



% 

 Apis flavifrons, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 329. 66 ? . 

 Anthophora flavifrons, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 375. 15. 

 Centris flavifrons, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 152. 6, and type sp. in Coll. 

 Westw. 



Male. Length 8 lines. — This sex closely resembles the female, ' 

 but differs in having the face below the insertion of the antennae 

 and the mandibles yellow, the latter black at their tips ; the 

 clvpeus has on each side a large black lunate spot ; the anterior 

 and intermediate tibiae have a yellow stripe above. 



Hab. Brazil. 



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