﻿BEES 
  FROM 
  CENTRAL 
  AMERICA 
  — 
  COCKERELL 
  455 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  December 
  (Vidales). 
  

   Type.— 
  U.S. 
  ISl.M. 
  No. 
  58516. 
  

  

  EXOMALOPSIS 
  (ANTHOPHORULA) 
  PERCONCINNA. 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  10 
  mm.; 
  black, 
  the 
  flagellum 
  obscurely 
  

   reddish 
  beneath; 
  facial 
  quadrangle 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long; 
  clypeus 
  

   dull, 
  a 
  shining 
  line 
  along 
  lower 
  margin 
  of 
  supraclypeal 
  area; 
  hair 
  of 
  

   face 
  and 
  front 
  dull 
  whitish, 
  of 
  cheeks 
  whiter; 
  mesonotum 
  and 
  scutel- 
  

   lum 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  bright 
  ferruginous 
  hair, 
  sides 
  of 
  thorax 
  with 
  

   duU 
  whitish 
  hair; 
  tegulae 
  black; 
  wings 
  dusky, 
  nervures 
  dark, 
  stigma 
  

   small; 
  second 
  submarginal 
  cell 
  very 
  broad, 
  receiving 
  recurrent 
  nervures 
  

   at 
  apical 
  corner; 
  scopa 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  very 
  large 
  (full 
  of 
  orange 
  poUen), 
  

   the 
  hind 
  basitarsi 
  with 
  some 
  black 
  hair; 
  abdomen 
  dullish, 
  tergites 
  2 
  

   to 
  5 
  with 
  broad 
  sharply 
  defined 
  pale 
  f 
  ulvescent 
  bands 
  of 
  fine 
  tomentum 
  

   with 
  no 
  projecting 
  hairs; 
  sides 
  of 
  extreme 
  base 
  of 
  second 
  tergite 
  with 
  

   hght 
  hair; 
  no 
  oblique 
  marks 
  on 
  second 
  tergite; 
  hind 
  knee 
  plate 
  small. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Agua 
  Amarilla, 
  December 
  15. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  U.S.N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  58512. 
  

  

  Somewhat 
  related 
  to 
  E. 
  fulvescens 
  Smith, 
  which 
  is 
  smaller, 
  with 
  

   shaggy 
  abdominal 
  bands, 
  and 
  with 
  dorsal 
  hair 
  not 
  bright 
  red. 
  

  

  EXOMALOPSIS 
  (ANTHOPHORULA) 
  NITIDICINCTA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  8.5 
  mm.; 
  black, 
  with 
  clypeus 
  lemon-yellow, 
  

   with 
  a 
  notch 
  in 
  the 
  yellow 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  above, 
  base 
  of 
  mandibles 
  with 
  

   a 
  large 
  triangular 
  yellow 
  mark; 
  flagellum 
  red 
  beneath; 
  front 
  legs 
  

   brownish 
  in 
  front; 
  facial 
  quadrangle 
  higher 
  than 
  broad; 
  mesonotum 
  

   and 
  scutellum 
  dull; 
  hair 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  copious, 
  rather 
  dull 
  white; 
  

   tegulae 
  testaceous, 
  rather 
  large; 
  wings 
  dusky, 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  dark; 
  

   stigma 
  reddish, 
  nervures 
  dark 
  brown; 
  second 
  submarginal 
  cell 
  large, 
  

   its 
  basal 
  side 
  oblique; 
  lower 
  section 
  of 
  basal 
  nervure 
  very 
  straight, 
  

   curved 
  only 
  briefly 
  at 
  lower 
  end; 
  hair 
  of 
  legs 
  white; 
  abdomen, 
  broad 
  

   seen 
  from 
  above 
  almost 
  circular, 
  rather 
  thinly 
  covered 
  with 
  pale, 
  

   slightly 
  fulvescent 
  hair, 
  hind 
  margins 
  of 
  second 
  and 
  following 
  tergites 
  

   shining, 
  the 
  pubescence 
  dense 
  enough 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  effect 
  of 
  bands; 
  

   no 
  oblique 
  bands 
  on 
  second 
  segment. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  November 
  21 
  (W. 
  P. 
  Cockerell). 
  Two 
  

   specimens. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  U.S.IS^.M. 
  No. 
  58514. 
  

  

  Related 
  to 
  E. 
  texana 
  Friese, 
  but 
  differing 
  in 
  the 
  dusky 
  wings 
  Mdth 
  

   dark 
  nervures 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  abdominal 
  bands. 
  

  

  EXOMALOPSIS 
  (or 
  new 
  genus 
  near 
  MELISSODES) 
  FULVOTECTA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  12 
  mm.; 
  black, 
  with 
  the 
  abdomen 
  beyond 
  

   the 
  second 
  tergite 
  (and 
  on 
  margin 
  of 
  that 
  tergite) 
  rufous 
  from 
  a 
  

   covering 
  of 
  fine 
  tomentum; 
  clypeus 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  yellow 
  band 
  covering 
  

   more 
  than 
  apical 
  half, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  pointed 
  extension 
  upward 
  in 
  middle 
  ; 
  

  

  