Records of Bees. 315 



clay bank, six at sap, others at flowers of plant no. 7 

 (IF. P. Cockerel/). 



Melipona fulvipes, G ueriu . 



Gualan, Guatemala, one male, Feb. 18 (TF. P. CockerelP). 

 Near to M. Ugnta, but the male differs. Mrs. Cockerell took 

 workers of M. fulvipes at Quirigua, eleven specimens ; three 

 (Feb. 20) at flowers of Solanum, one (Feb. 11) at Pontederia 

 cordata. 



Melipona solani, sp. n. 



Worker. — Length about 10 mm. 



Black, with the general build and structure oi M. fulvipes ; 

 face without light markings, except the faintest possible 

 reddish median line on the dull minutely granular clypeus ; 

 labrura ferruginous, minutely punctured; antennae dark, scape 

 rufo-piceous, flagellum reddish at end; hair of head and thorax 

 above abundant, mixed dark fuscous and ferruginous, of sides 

 of thorax rich ferruginous, beneath whitish ; mesothorax and 

 scutellum shining, the latter testaceous ; tegulse clear amber- 

 red ; wings dusky, very red, especially toward base ; stigma 

 and nervures ferruginous ; much of middle, and nearly all of 

 hind femora, bright red ; apical tarsal joints and end of lobe 

 of hind basitarsus red ; hair of legs partly black and partly 

 red, the short appressed hair on inner surface of hind tibiaj 

 with a purple lustre in certain lights ; abdomen black with 

 black hair, hind margins of the segments very narrowly 

 obscure reddish (this is wholly wanting on the flfth), and 

 the second and third with a fringe of pale golden-brown hair ; 

 venter ferruginous suff"used with darker, and with glittering 

 cream-coloured hair. 



Hub. Quirigua, Guatemala, one at flowers of Solanum^ 

 Feb. 20, 1912 {IV. P. CockereJl). 



Allied to M . fulvipes, but easily known by the lack of yellow 

 bands on the abdomen and of yellow face-marking.s. 



Aiiyochlora gemmella, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 6 mm. 



Very brilliant shining blue, more green on thorax, varying 

 to nearly all blue-green ; in the type the face, vertex, and 

 cheeks are peacock-green, the front blue ; thorax blue-green 

 with purple shades, but the scutellum and postscutellum very 

 green, contrasting with the blue metathorax ; abdomen blue 

 with purple lights, dorsum of second segment distinctly 

 green ; on the legs the blue colour extends to the femora 



