﻿BEES 
  FROM 
  CENTRAL 
  AMERICA 
  — 
  COCKERELL 
  473 
  

  

  no 
  light 
  tegumentary 
  mark 
  on 
  abdomen. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  small 
  light 
  spot 
  

   on 
  the 
  scape. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  February 
  9 
  (Adan 
  Rivera). 
  

  

  Type.—V.S.'NM. 
  No. 
  58878. 
  

  

  Related 
  to 
  the 
  West 
  Indian 
  C. 
  apicalis 
  Smith, 
  but 
  with 
  black 
  legs, 
  

   hair 
  of 
  vertex 
  black, 
  wings 
  fuliginous, 
  and 
  no 
  yellow 
  line 
  on 
  abdomen. 
  

   There 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  rather 
  close 
  resemblance 
  to 
  C. 
  maculata 
  Lepeletier. 
  

  

  CENTRIS 
  (CYANOCENTRIS) 
  POEOILA 
  Lepeletier 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  12 
  mm.; 
  clypeus, 
  labrum, 
  base 
  of 
  mandibles, 
  

   lateral 
  marks, 
  and 
  stripe 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  scape 
  pale 
  yellow; 
  dense 
  hair 
  of 
  

   thorax 
  above 
  ferruginous, 
  posteriorly 
  and 
  beneath 
  white; 
  wings 
  dusky 
  

   hyaline; 
  legs 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  and 
  basitarsi 
  with 
  black 
  hair, 
  or 
  the 
  

   long 
  hair 
  posteriorly 
  on 
  apical 
  half 
  of 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  reddish; 
  abdomen 
  

   with 
  four 
  dark 
  blue 
  tergites, 
  the 
  second 
  with 
  an 
  interrupted 
  yellow 
  

   band 
  at 
  base; 
  apex 
  of 
  abdomen 
  red. 
  The 
  clypeus 
  has 
  rather 
  short 
  

   thick 
  lateral 
  black 
  bands, 
  unlike 
  those 
  of 
  C. 
  wilmattae. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  February 
  7 
  (Adan 
  Rivera). 
  

  

  This 
  agrees 
  with 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  C. 
  poecila, 
  which 
  is 
  recorded 
  from 
  

   Panama, 
  Costa 
  Rica, 
  and 
  Mexico. 
  But 
  it 
  was 
  described 
  from 
  Cuba, 
  

   and 
  it 
  is 
  possible 
  that 
  Cuban 
  specimens, 
  if 
  compared, 
  would 
  show 
  some 
  

   difference. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  male, 
  from 
  Zamorano, 
  January 
  28 
  (W. 
  P. 
  Cockerell), 
  

   was 
  at 
  first 
  considered 
  a 
  distinct 
  species, 
  but 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  only 
  a 
  

   variety, 
  as 
  some 
  examples 
  of 
  C. 
  poecila 
  have 
  gray 
  instead 
  of 
  red 
  hair 
  

   on 
  thorax. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  16 
  mm.; 
  anterior 
  wing 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  11 
  mm.; 
  

   black, 
  including 
  legs, 
  but 
  the 
  dark 
  parts 
  of 
  abdomen 
  dark 
  blue; 
  face 
  

   markings 
  creamy 
  white, 
  including 
  the 
  entire 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  short 
  scape, 
  

   clypeus 
  except 
  a 
  rather 
  narrow 
  band 
  along 
  each 
  lateral 
  margin, 
  not 
  

   nearly 
  reaching 
  lower 
  margin, 
  long 
  cuneiform 
  lateral 
  marks, 
  the 
  basal 
  

   end 
  above, 
  all 
  of 
  labrum, 
  and 
  outer 
  side 
  of 
  mandibles; 
  flagellum 
  black; 
  

   hair 
  of 
  thorax 
  very 
  pale 
  grayish, 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  fulvous, 
  tegulae 
  pale 
  

   rufotestaceous; 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  a 
  little 
  dusky; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  with 
  

   pale 
  reddish 
  hair 
  on 
  outer 
  side, 
  but 
  otherwise 
  with 
  black; 
  tarsi 
  rufescent 
  

   apically; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  stout, 
  base 
  of 
  first 
  tergite 
  with 
  dull 
  white 
  

   hair; 
  blue 
  parts 
  of 
  abdomen 
  not 
  hairy, 
  including 
  the 
  first 
  four 
  tergites, 
  

   the 
  fifth 
  also 
  dark 
  at 
  base; 
  second 
  tergite 
  at 
  base 
  with 
  a 
  narrowly 
  

   interrupted 
  yellow 
  band 
  broadened 
  laterally; 
  margins 
  of 
  tergites 
  ob- 
  

   scurely 
  reddish, 
  apex 
  clear 
  red. 
  Visits 
  Duranta 
  2)lumieri. 
  As 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  C. 
  poecila 
  and 
  C. 
  versicolor, 
  the 
  black 
  hair 
  on 
  legs 
  indicates 
  

   C. 
  poecila. 
  

  

  I 
  refer 
  to 
  C. 
  poecila 
  a 
  female 
  from 
  Zamorano, 
  November 
  8 
  (Geldino 
  

   Vidales). 
  Length 
  about 
  15 
  mm.; 
  similar 
  to 
  C. 
  adani, 
  but 
  easily 
  dis- 
  

   tinguished 
  by 
  the 
  black 
  hair 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  and 
  middle 
  tibiae; 
  the 
  fourth 
  

  

  