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12. TRIGONA LINEATA. B.M. 

 Melipona lineata, St. Farg. Hym. i. 430. 26. 



Hab. Brazil. 



13. TRIGONA QUADRANGULA. 



Melipona quadrangula, St. Farg. Hym. i. 433. 35 (type sp. in Coll. 

 Westw.). 



Hab. Brazil. 



14. TRIGONA QUADRIPUNCTATA. 



Melipona quadripunctata, St. Farg. Hym. i. 430. 27. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



15. TRIGONA VARIA. 



Melipona varia, St. Farg. Hym. i. 433. 32. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



16. TRIGONA PUNCTATA. B.M. 



Worker. Length 2 lines. Black ; head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured, the scape in front, the apical joints of the antennae 

 and the mandibles ferruginous ; the face densely clothed with 

 short golden-yellow pubescence ; a line passing over the tegulae 

 and uniting with a spot on each side of the scutellum, at its base, 

 and the posterior margin of the scutellum, bright yellow ; the 

 base of the tibiae yellow ; the legs rufo-testaceous ; the coxae, 

 trochanters and tarsi ferruginous ; the wings hyaline at their 

 base, fuscous towards their apex. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 the apical segments covered with golden-yellow pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



17. TRIGONA CAPITATA. B.M. 



Worker. Length 3 lines. Black ; the head broad, flattened 

 and wider than the thorax ; the flagellum obscurely ferruginous, 

 the base of the scape ferruginous. Thorax, a yellow line along 

 the margin of the tegulae ; the wings testaceous, the nervures 

 ferruginous ; the legs dark rufo-testaceous, the posterior tibiae 

 broadly dilated. Abdomen, the margins of the segments mem- 

 branaceous, the apical segment covered with cinereous pubes- 

 cence. 



Hab. Brazil. 



