512 Mr. F. Smith's Descriptions of Brazilian Honey Bees. 



black. Abdomen: tlie margins of the segments 1 — 5 bordered 

 with yellow, the sixth entirely yellow. 



Genus Apoica, St. Farg. 

 1. Apoica pallida, St. Farg. Hym. Hist. Nat. Ins. i. p. 538 

 (Chapeo). 



Genus Nectarina, Shuck. 



1. Nectarina atmlis, Shuck. Cab. Cycl. Hist. Ins. p. 183 (1840). 

 (Enxu). 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XX. 



Fig. 1. Meliponafidvipes, female ; 1 a, posterior tarsus of J ; 1 fe, posterior tarsus 



of 5. 

 Fig. 2. Melipona anihidioides, worker. 

 Fig. 3. Melipona Mondury, worker. 

 Fig. 4. Trigona mellea, worker. 

 Fig. 5. Trigona longipes, worker. 

 Fig. 6. Trigona Mombuca, worker; 6a, antenna of $; 6b, antenna of ^ ; 6c, 



anterior leg of ^ ; 6d, anterior leg of ^ ; 



6e, posterior leg of $; 6f, posterior leg of 



5- 

 Fig. 7. Trigona Tataira, male. 

 Fig. 8. Anterior wing of Melipona, 



Fig. 9. Anterior wing of Trigona, with the transverse cubital nervures obsolete. 

 Fig. 10. ,, ,, with transverse cubital nervures incomplete. 



Fig. 11. Tongue of Trigona mMea, worker. 



Fig. 12. Tongue of Melipona riijiventris, worker; desciibed by St. Fargeaii. 

 Fig. 13. Tongue of Trigona amallhta, worker. 

 Fig. 14. Tongue of Melipona antJtidioides, worker. 

 Fig. 15. Tongue of Trigona recursa, worker. 



