406 hymenoptera. 



20. Melipona testacea. 



Melipona testacea, King, Mag. der Gesell. Nat. Fr. zu Berlin 

 (1807), p. 265. 



Hah. Brazil. 



21. Melipona fulvipes. B.M. 



Melipona fulvipes, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. p. 462. t. 75. 

 f. 6, 6h 



Hob. Cuba. 



22. Melipona compressipes. 



Apis compressipes, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 370. 2. 



Melipona compressipes, Schomb. Faun. Flo. Brit. Guiana,m. 592. 



Hah. Guiana. 



23. Melipona lateralis. 



Melipona lateralis, Schomb. Faun. Flo. Brit. Guiana, iii. 692. 

 Hab. Guiana. 



24. Melipona pallens. 



Melipona pallens, Schomb. Faun, Flo. Brit. Guiana, iii. 592. 

 Hab. Guiana. 



25. Melipona fasciculata. B.M. 



Worker. Length 4^ lines. — Black ; the vertex of the head, 

 the thorax and legs have a hoary pubescence; head, the face 

 has a narrow line along the inner orbits of the eyes, a line down 

 the centre of the clypeus, and the labrum, yellow ; mandibles fer- 

 ruginous ; the antennae reddish-yellow in front, above fuscous, 

 the two apical joints entirely reddish-yellow. The thorax has 

 anteriorly on each side before the insertion of the wings a tuft of 

 red pubescence ; wings subhyaline, the superior pair having a 

 yellow stain, the tegula; and nervures pale rufo-testaceous ; the 

 legs rufo-testaceous, the tarsi beneath clothed with fulvous pu- 

 bescence; the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen 

 have a narrow yellow line ; the pubescence at the base, apex and 

 beneath hoary, that at the apex intermixed with black hairs. 



Hab. Para. 



26. Melipona flavipennis. 



Male. Length 6^ lines. — Black, the clypeus, face anteriorly, 



