314 Mr. T. D. A. Cockevell — Descriptions and 



strong reddish tint ; stigma and nervures testaceous. Legs 

 black, the small joints of tarsi dark red ; abdomen dull but 

 not dark reddish fulvous, the segments more or less dusky, 

 though ujirrowly, at apex. The face is very broad. 



Hab. Quirigua, = type locality, eight ; one at flowers of 

 Zexmenia virgulta, Klatt, two at flowers of common yellow 

 Compositae, three (Feb. 31) at blue flowers of a species of 

 Labiatse {JV. P. CockereU) ; Gualan, Guatemala, one at 

 flowers of Vernonia aschenhorniana ^ Schauer, one (Feb. 18) 

 without flower record ( W. P. CockereU). 



A relatively large species, looking a little like Melipona 

 mandacaia, Smith, but the resemblance is merely superficial. 

 It should rather be compared with Trigoiia fulviventris, Guer., 

 which is considerably smaller and has a shining abdomen. 

 The two agree in the dense white tomentum on cheeks. 



Trigona fulviventris , Guerin. 



Mrs. Cockerel! took this in Guatemala as follows : — Puerto 

 Barrios, six, Jan. 28 ; Quirigua, five, two at Zexmenia 

 virgulta, Kiatt, one (Feb. 20) at Ipomoea quinquefulia, 

 Grisebach, one (Feb. 11) at Pontederia cordaia, L. ; Ama- 

 titlan, February, one ; Guatemala City, one. 



Trigona cupira, Smith. 



Mrs. Cockerel! took this in Guatemala as follows :- — 

 Amatitlan, one; Puerto Barrios, one, Jan. 28; Guatemala 

 City, three (I also have three from Guatemala City collected 

 by Mr. J. Kodriguez) ; Antigua, one ; Gualan, twelve, al! 

 but one at flowers of Veniojiia aschenborniana, Schauer ; 

 Quirigua, sixteen, two at nest in clay bank, five (Feb. 12 and 

 20) at flowers of Ipomoea sidcefolia, Clioisy. 



Trigona amalthea, Olivier. 



Mrs. Cockerel! toolc tliis in Guatemala as follows : — Gualan, 

 two, Feb. 22-23, at flowers of Calopogonium ccerulewri, Desv.; 

 Puerto Barrios, one ; Quirigua, five, one (Feb. 11) at 

 Pontederia cordata, L., one at flowers of common yellow 

 Compositse. 



Trigona frontalis flavocinct a, Cockerel!, var. a. 



Quirigua, Guatemala, a variety with lateral thirds of 

 clypeus blaclc or nearly, bases of first and second abdominal 

 segments usually creamy wliite, tlie hind margin of first 

 segment very broadly dark ; nine workers, one at nest in 



