480 Descriidions and Records of Bees. 



(quadrate) patches on hind margin, and each side with a 

 large complicated patch of vshite, presenting a deep sinus 

 anteriorly; fourth segment with a very large and thick 

 mark having two parts^ like the letter H ; fifth with two 

 large spots, not I'eaching apical margin ; sixth segment with 

 a small outwardly directed basal spine on each side. Face 

 with white hair, partly black on lower part ; front and 

 vertex with black hair; a band of white hair in front of 

 ocelli ; scape red at base, middle covered with long white 

 hair, the broad apex intense black ; flagellum red beneath ; 

 third antennal joint unusually short for the genus, not as 

 long as next three combined ; tegulse red. Wings brownish 

 on apical margin^ stigma and nervures piceous; second s.m. 

 distinctly narrower above, receiving first r. n. before end. 

 Legs black with the usual white hair-marks^ knees red ; 

 pleura with black hair. 



Carcarana, Argentina {L. Bruner). 



Allied to /. cocherelii. but known by the abdominal 

 pattern^ venation^ &c. 



Loncliopria alopex, sp. u. 



c? . — Length about 14 mm. 



Head, thorax, and legs black, with long and abundant 

 fox-red hair. Abdomen shining olive-green^ with the same 

 red hair, except the last two segments, which are black, the 

 penultimate with black hair. Mandibles bidentate, reddish 

 apically ; malar space very short ; clypeus very smooth and 

 polished, the upper part with two rounded elevations, between 

 which is a depression bearing a tuft of very long red hair ; 

 labrum bituberculate ; antennae A^ery long, reaching to meta- 

 tliorax, flagellum bright ferruginous beneath except at base; 

 face very broad ; mesothorax shining, with well-separated 

 punctures ; area of metathorax smooth, with an obtuse 

 transverse ridge ; tegulse black. Wings dusky, stigma dull 

 ferrnginous ; third s.m, very oblique ; apical segment of 

 abdomen keeled. Maxillary palpi Avith six subequal joints. 



La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 14, 1898. U.S. National Museum. 



A remarkable species, superficially resembling L. tJioracica 

 (Friese), but with much longer and more abundant hair on 

 abdomen, shorter stigma, quite different mandibles, &c. 



According to specimens received from Friese and Jensen- 

 Haarup, it is L. armata, Fr., ohich is the male of L. chalybaea^ 

 Fr., not L. anea, Fr., as Friese first thought. L. marginata 

 (Spin.), described as a Cul/etes, the specific name preoccupied, 

 apparently becomes L. zonalis (Keed, 1892). 



