Records of Bees. 319 



black, tlie flagelliira stout ; mesotliorax dullish, with minute 

 uot very dense punctures ; area of metathorax rugose, liardly 

 plicate ; tegulge small, rufo-piceous. Wings hyaline, faintly 

 dusky, stigma and nervures brownisli testaceous ; first r. u. 

 joining second s.m. more tliau a third from base. Legs black, 

 with pale hair. Abdomeu black with a distinct aeneous tint, 

 the hind margins of the segments so slightly and narrowly 

 reddish that the fact is hardly noticeable ; no bands, but 

 rather abundant pale hair. The following characters are 

 microscopical : face and front minutely tessellate, sides of 

 front as densely punctured as is possible ; sides of meso- 

 tliorax (also minutely tessellate) with punctures about as far 

 apart as the diameter of one ; middle of mesothorax with 

 punctures about or nearly twice as far apart ; tegulae with 

 minute piliferous punctures only ; area of metathorax with 

 irregular basal plicfe ; abdomen with extremely fine piliferous 

 punctures, sparse but not absent on disc of first segment ; 

 third segment with much beautifully plumose hair ; hind 

 spur with four long teeth. The type carries much yellow 

 pollen. 



Hab. Guatemala City, Guatemala {W. P. Cockerell). 

 Except for the larger size, this agrees fairly well with the 

 description of D. costaricensis, Crawford, but the tegulse are 

 no larger, and the punctures of the mesothorax are not 

 closer, than in D. occidentalis, Crawford, from the United 

 States. The insect is nearest to D. occidentalis, from whicii 

 it is known by the brassy or greenish-tinted abdomen and 

 somewhat dusky wings. 



E.vomalopsis callura, sp. n. 



S . — Length Q-Qh mm. 



Black, shining ; head broad ; face and front with shining 

 white hair ; labrum with much white hair ; cheeks with 

 white hair, except the uppermost part, where it is black ; 

 occiput with much black hair ; sides of vertex smooth and 

 shining ; ocelli in a very slightly curved line ; no light face- 

 markings ; clypeus and supraclypeal area smooth and flat, 

 with very few minute and feeble punctures ; mandibles 

 black ; scape black ; flagellum normal, black above, bright 

 yellowish ferruginous below ; mesothorax with rather small 

 but strong and close punctures, except the posterior disc, 

 which is impunctate ; hair of thorax black, but a large white 

 tuft on lowermost part of pleura ; tegulse black. Wings 

 hyaline, suffused with orange, the apical margin broadly pale 

 greyish ; stigma and nervures bright apricot- colour, stigma 



