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VOL. 1, pp. 179-198 OCTOBER 8, 1907. 



INVERTEBRATA PACIFICA 



Edited by C. F. Baker, Estacion Agronomica, Santiago dc las Vegas, Cuba 



HYMENOPTERA 



TWO NEW BEES ()1< THE GEXUS TERATIXA 

 C. Y. BAKER. 

 5987 Ceratina belizensis n. sp. 



Fenialp: Lcnoitli 11 mm. Head mostly exc&pt the blaek vertex, 

 thorax except the black entire median portion of the menosotuni, 

 brilliant green, with a sliglit brassy tinge. Abdomen deep shining 

 pnrple. Antennae and legs piceons, the latter, together with the 

 venter, covered with rather long and thick fennigineous pubescence. 

 Wings uniformly 7iale smoky and iridescent, the veins dark, the stigma 

 translucent. First snbniarginal cell about twice the length of second, 

 the first abscissa of radius eqnaJling third. 



Face very coarsely and roughly punctured, black, except the sides 

 and the lateral borders of clypens which are l)rassy green; a round 

 yellow mark in the middle of the broadest part of the clypeus. Labium 

 and mandibles black Outer orbits and median portion of cheeks 

 sniQctli, impunctate. Vertex punctured like front, but on cheeks and 

 gular region the punctures are much smaller and sparser. Hind ocalli 

 about as near occipital margin as to eyes. Posteriorly the median 

 blaek area .of mesonotum is smooth and shining, almost impunctate; 

 the thorax otherwise is thickly, coarsely, and quite uniformly punc'tur- 

 ed; the punctures on lateral angles of mesonotum, and on postscutel- 

 lum are very fine and thick. Propleurae finely punctured throughout, 

 more thickly above. Upper area of metanotum broad trianguilar in out- 

 line, the posterior bbixler distinct, anteriorly with about fifteen long- 

 itudinal wrinkles on either siile, most of which finally diverge caudad 

 and fade into a microscopic roughness on the posterior border. The 

 posterior face of metanotumi is weakly sparsely punctate and strong- 

 ly shagreened. The tegulae are testaceous, the tubercles concolorous 

 with the rest of thorax. The first abdominal tergite is finely thickly 

 punctate, the 2nd, 3rd, and most of the 4th sparsely coarsely punctur- 

 ed and smooth and shining, with a bluish cast on discs of segments; 

 posterior border of 4th, and all of 5th and 6th very coarsely>4W'ekly, 



