Records of Bees. 315 



clay bauk, six at sap^ others at flowers of plant no. 7 

 (IF. P. Cockerell). 



MeUpona fulvipes, Gucrin. 



Gualan, Guatemala, one male, Feb. 18 ( W. P. Cockei^ell). 

 Near to M. liyata, but the male differs. Mrs. Coclverell took 

 workers of M . fulvipes at Quirigua, eleven specimens ; three 

 (Feb. 20) at flowers of Solarium, one (Feb. 11) at Pontederia 

 cor data. 



Meli^jona solani, sp. n. 



Worker. — Length about 10 mm. 



Black, with the general build and structure of M. fulvipes ; 

 face without light markings, except the faintest possible 

 reddish median line on the dull minutely granular clypeus ; 

 labrura ferruginous, minutely punctured; antennae dark, scape 

 rufo-piceous, flagellum reddish at end; hair of head and thorax 

 above abundant, mixed dark fuscous and ferruginous, of sides 

 of thorax rich ferruginous, beneath whitish ; mesothorax and 

 scutellum shining, the latter testaceou^s ; tegulse clear amber- 

 red ; wings dusky, very red, especially toward base ; stigma 

 and nervures ferruginous ; much of middle, and nearly all of 

 liind femora, bright red ; apical tarsal joints and end of lobe 

 of hind basitarsus red ; hair of legs partly black and partly 

 redj the short appressed hair on inner surface of hind tibiae 

 with a purple lustre in certain lights ; abdomen black with 

 black hair, hind margins of the segments very narrowly 

 obscure reddish (this is wholly wanting on the fifth), and 

 the second and third with a fringe of pale golden-brown hair ; 

 venter ferruginous suft'used with darker, and with glittering 

 cream-coloured hair. 



Hab. Quirigua, Guatemala, one at flowers of Solarium, 

 Feb. 20, 1912 {IV. P. Cockerell). 



Allied to M. fulvipes, but easily known by the lack of yellow 

 bauds on the abdomen and of yellow face-markings. 



Augochlora yemmella, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 6 mm. 



Very brilliant shining blue, more green on thorax, varying 

 to nearly all blue-green ; in the type the face, vertex, and 

 cheeks are peacock-green, the front blue ; thorax blue-green 

 with purple shades, but the scutellum and postseutellum very 

 green, contrasting with the blue metathorax ; abdomen blue 

 with purple lights, dorsum of second segment distinctly 

 green ; on the legs the blue colour extends to the femora 



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