Records of Dees. 287 



Wings dusky h}alinCj scarcely yellowish. Compared with 

 a specimen of ccnadurica, the type of incarum is decidedly 

 more robust. 



(^ . — Less robust ; face narrow, with the clypeus, a broad 

 supraclypeal mark, lateral face-marks (extending narrowly 

 along orbits to level of anterior ocellus), greater part of 

 labrum, stripe on mandibles, scape in front, and stripe on 

 basal half of third antenual joint (the apical part in front 

 red) all trhite ; tarsi with much coppcr-rcd liair, and a line 

 of the same on outer side of hind tibiic, failing ])asally. 

 Compared with the male X. splendhlula, Lep. (Villa 

 Encarnacion, Paraguay, Schrottkij), this differs in being 

 smaller ; eyes smaller, much less converging above ; labrum 

 and mandibles -with light marks ; hair of pleura black ; 

 tarsi with much red hair, &c. It is at present uncertain 

 whether various, ecuadorica, and incarum should be regarded 

 as eloselv allied species, or races of one (yarians) . 



llab. Piura, Peru (C. H. T. Townsend). The type 

 (female) from flowers of water-melon in ]May ; the male, 

 April 28, at the same Asclepiadaceous flowers as Trigona 

 mellai'ia, &e. The insect is dedicated to the Incas, who 

 doubtless observed it in ages past. 



Xylocopa morio callichlora, subsp. n. 



2 . — "Wings shining brilliant golden green, with slight 

 coppery tints. 



Hab. Piura, Peru, April 28, 1911 (C. H. T. Toivnsend). 

 Perez records what is evidently the same variety from 

 Guayaquil. It is just possible that X. frontalis quadri- 

 maculata, Meunier, from Quito, is its male. Dalla Torre's 

 Catalogue erroneously gives Cayenne as the locality of 

 quadrimaculata. 



Ptiloglossa ollantayi, sp. n. 



? , — Length about 16 mm., anterior wing IH. 



Light rufo-fulvous, the head and thorax dusky above, 

 the cheeks black ; hind margins of abdominal segments 

 broadly hyaline, Avith a greenish lustre; legs clear ferrugi- 

 nous ; hair of head and thorax abundant, white on cheeks, 

 pale yellowish on face (whiter at sides, where it is dense), 

 broadly tipped with grey on vertex, on thorax fulvous, 

 tipped with fuscous on dorsum, below wings, and at sides of 

 metathorax ; hair of legs pale yellowish ; first abdominal 

 segment with much erect pale fulvous hair, along hind 

 margin strongly stained with fuscous ; remaining segments 



