﻿BEES 
  FROM 
  CENTRAL 
  AMERICA 
  — 
  COCKERELL 
  483 
  

  

  marks 
  and 
  mark 
  on 
  labrum 
  yellow; 
  scape 
  with 
  an 
  indistinct 
  pale 
  

   line; 
  mandibles 
  all 
  black, 
  bidentate, 
  eyes 
  very 
  large, 
  approaching 
  

   on 
  vertex; 
  mesonotum 
  in 
  front 
  with 
  a 
  band 
  of 
  inconspicuous 
  grayish 
  

   hair; 
  legs 
  as 
  described 
  by 
  Smith, 
  "the 
  posterior 
  tibiae 
  curved, 
  thick- 
  

   ened, 
  and 
  deeply 
  notched 
  at 
  their 
  apex"; 
  the 
  notch 
  is 
  a 
  curved 
  ex- 
  

   terior 
  excavation 
  and 
  terminates 
  in 
  a 
  short 
  spine. 
  The 
  female 
  was 
  

   not 
  found. 
  

  

  XYLOCOPA 
  PELfiNI, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  21 
  mm,, 
  anterior 
  wing 
  about 
  15; 
  black 
  

   without 
  any 
  metallic 
  tints; 
  clypeus 
  narrow, 
  supraclypeal 
  mark, 
  

   lateral 
  face 
  marks 
  (obliquely 
  truncate 
  above 
  at 
  level 
  of 
  supraclypeal 
  

   area), 
  labrum 
  (but 
  not 
  scape 
  or 
  mandibles) 
  light 
  yellow; 
  antennae 
  

   entirely 
  black; 
  pubescence 
  black, 
  obscurely 
  grayish 
  on 
  mesonotum; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  bidentate 
  at 
  apex 
  on 
  outer 
  side; 
  wings 
  dusky 
  brown, 
  

   sub 
  translucent, 
  not 
  appreciably 
  metallic; 
  abdomen 
  with 
  no 
  smooth 
  

   median 
  line; 
  hind 
  margins 
  of 
  tergites 
  2 
  to 
  4 
  very 
  narrowly 
  red. 
  Re- 
  

   sembles 
  X. 
  loripes, 
  but 
  smaller, 
  with 
  the 
  eyes 
  hardly 
  approaching 
  

   above. 
  Supraclypeal 
  mark 
  a 
  narrow 
  band, 
  lateral 
  marks 
  not 
  pro- 
  

   duced 
  upward 
  along 
  orbit, 
  mandibles 
  obtuse 
  at 
  end, 
  not 
  dentate; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  without 
  the 
  peculiar 
  form 
  of 
  X. 
  loripes. 
  The 
  wings 
  are 
  

   colored 
  as 
  in 
  X. 
  loripes. 
  The 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  postscutellum 
  

   is 
  angulate, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  case 
  in 
  X. 
  loripes. 
  The 
  width 
  of 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  is 
  about 
  9.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Guatemala: 
  San 
  Mateo, 
  December 
  1946 
  (A. 
  Pelen). 
  

  

  Type.— 
  JJ. 
  S.N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  58892. 
  

  

  XYLOCOPA 
  FIMBRIATA 
  Fabricius 
  (CORNIGER 
  Weatwood) 
  

  

  The 
  female 
  is 
  large 
  and 
  black, 
  superficially 
  like 
  several 
  other 
  species, 
  

   but 
  easily 
  distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  large 
  curved 
  obtuse 
  horns 
  on 
  the 
  top 
  

   of 
  the 
  head, 
  laterad 
  of 
  the 
  ocelli. 
  The 
  wings 
  are 
  very 
  dark, 
  shining 
  

   blue-green, 
  nearly 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  in 
  X. 
  wilmattae 
  Cockerell. 
  Three 
  

   species 
  of 
  Xylocopa, 
  superficially 
  alike, 
  were 
  common 
  at 
  Zamorano, 
  

   principally 
  at 
  flowers 
  of 
  Crotalaria 
  incana 
  L., 
  but 
  all 
  the 
  specimens 
  

   caught 
  were 
  females, 
  and 
  in 
  spite 
  of 
  much 
  searching 
  no 
  males 
  could 
  

   be 
  found. 
  The 
  other 
  two 
  species 
  are 
  X. 
  wilmattae 
  Cockerell 
  and 
  

   X. 
  fahricii 
  Cockerell. 
  One 
  X. 
  Jimhriata 
  comes 
  from 
  El 
  Salvador 
  

   (M. 
  Salazar). 
  

  

  XYLOCOPA 
  FABRICn 
  Ck>ckerell 
  

  

  X. 
  morio 
  Fabricius 
  preoccupied. 
  See 
  Ann. 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  ser. 
  

   9, 
  vol. 
  17, 
  p. 
  658, 
  1926. 
  (This 
  was 
  regarded 
  as 
  a 
  subspecies 
  of 
  X. 
  

   frontalis, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  common 
  at 
  Zamorano, 
  and 
  no 
  frontalis 
  was 
  found 
  

   in 
  Honduras.) 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  recognizable 
  by 
  the 
  transverse 
  ridges 
  or 
  keels 
  just 
  in 
  

   front 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  ocelli. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  considered 
  a 
  variety 
  or 
  race 
  

  

  