﻿BEES 
  FROM 
  CENTRAL 
  AlVIERICA 
  — 
  COCKERELL 
  479 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Type 
  male 
  taken 
  at 
  Zamorano, 
  February 
  8 
  (W. 
  P. 
  

   Cockerell). 
  

  

  Type.—U.S.'NM. 
  No.58886. 
  

  

  Recognized 
  among 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Rhodocenfris 
  by 
  the 
  robust 
  form 
  

   and 
  the 
  yellow 
  band 
  on 
  second 
  tergite, 
  but 
  actually 
  allied 
  to 
  species 
  

   that 
  have 
  a 
  dark 
  abdomen. 
  Thus 
  C. 
  poecila 
  has 
  a 
  similar 
  band 
  on 
  

   second 
  tergite. 
  Friese 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  included 
  this 
  in 
  his 
  C. 
  inermis, 
  

   and 
  C. 
  inermis 
  gualanensis 
  Cockerell 
  has 
  the 
  yellow 
  band 
  on 
  second 
  

   tergite, 
  but 
  it 
  has 
  the 
  face 
  markings 
  bright 
  lemon-yellow 
  and 
  the 
  

   supraclypeal 
  mark 
  large. 
  

  

  CENTRIS 
  (RHODOCENTRIS) 
  INERMIS 
  Friese 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  A 
  rather 
  large 
  species 
  with 
  red 
  abdomen, 
  resembling 
  

   C. 
  robusta, 
  but 
  with 
  no 
  yellow 
  marks 
  on 
  second 
  tergite. 
  Our 
  speci- 
  

   men 
  has 
  the 
  face 
  marks 
  cream 
  color, 
  and 
  the 
  abdomen 
  without 
  any 
  

   trace 
  of 
  a 
  blue 
  spot. 
  The 
  mandibles 
  are 
  quadridentate. 
  The 
  lateral 
  

   black 
  bands 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  are 
  narrower 
  than 
  in 
  C. 
  robusta. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  March 
  6, 
  at 
  Duranta 
  plumieri 
  (W. 
  P. 
  

   Cockerell). 
  

  

  Comparing 
  this 
  with 
  C. 
  robusta, 
  I 
  concluded 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  different, 
  

   but 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  quite 
  typical 
  of 
  C. 
  inermis. 
  Certainly 
  C. 
  inermis, 
  guala- 
  

   nensis, 
  and 
  robusta 
  are 
  very 
  closely 
  allied. 
  

  

  The 
  original 
  description 
  of 
  C. 
  inermis 
  is: 
  "Nigra, 
  fulvo-hirta, 
  

   abdomine 
  rufo, 
  facie 
  flavosignata 
  (9cf), 
  pedibus 
  rufis, 
  fulvo- 
  

   hirsutis, 
  9 
  scopa 
  fulva, 
  cT 
  pedibus 
  inermibus, 
  long. 
  12-14 
  mm." 
  

   Over 
  50 
  examples 
  in 
  the 
  Paris 
  Aluseum 
  from 
  Orizaba, 
  Mexico; 
  also 
  

   in 
  Brazil. 
  

  

  CENTRIS 
  INERMIS 
  PALUDIFRONS, 
  new 
  subspecies 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  associated 
  with 
  C. 
  robusta 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  specimens 
  hav- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  interrupted 
  yellow 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  second 
  tergite, 
  but 
  the 
  hair 
  of 
  

   the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  and 
  basitarsi 
  pale 
  red, 
  and 
  the 
  lateral 
  face 
  marks 
  

   broadly 
  truncate 
  above 
  (as 
  in 
  inermis), 
  whereas 
  they 
  are 
  narrower 
  in 
  

   robusta, 
  and 
  produced 
  to 
  a 
  sharp 
  point 
  on 
  orbital 
  margin. 
  This 
  

   cannot 
  be 
  C. 
  inermis 
  gualanensis, 
  as 
  the 
  face 
  marks 
  are 
  very 
  pale 
  

   yellowish, 
  not 
  "bright 
  lemon 
  yellow," 
  and 
  the 
  supraclypeal 
  mark 
  is 
  a 
  

   very 
  slender 
  transverse 
  stripe. 
  One 
  specimen 
  has 
  a 
  blue 
  spot 
  at 
  base 
  

   of 
  second 
  tergite 
  between 
  the 
  yellow 
  marks. 
  The 
  mandibles 
  are 
  

   tridentate. 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  many 
  specimens 
  (W. 
  P. 
  Cockerell, 
  Adan 
  

   Rivera), 
  Tegucigalpa, 
  February 
  (W. 
  P. 
  Cockerell). 
  Visits 
  Duranta 
  

   plumieri. 
  

  

  Type.—U.S.lSi.M. 
  No. 
  58887. 
  

  

  Schrottky 
  (1908) 
  treated 
  C 
  inermis 
  as 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  versicolor 
  Fabricius. 
  

  

  