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of the Amazon Valley, 
little resemblance to any of the other genera,, and^ in 
factj remind one more of bees of the Melipona group. 
Molorchus scoparius, King, Nov. Act. Ac. Cses. Nat. 
Cur. xii. 469, pi. xliv. f. 2, belongs to this genus. It is 
stated to be found at Cameta, on the Tocantins, where I 
collected for two months, but did not meet with it. 
1. Epimelitta meliponicaj n. sp. 
Obscure fulva, densissime fulvo-pilosa, abdomine fusco- 
testaceo, nudo, nitido, apice segmenti primi aureo-margi- 
nato ; elytris fulvo-testaceis, nitidis, basi plaga communi 
nigra punctata, pilis rufis elongatis dense marginata; 
femoribus et tibiis posticis pilosis, his intus ante medium 
et extus versus apicem dense nigro-hirsutis ; thorace 
brevi, lato, dense grosse punctate, nigricante, dorso crista 
pilorum nigricantium. 
Long 6 lin. ? . 
Hah. — Ega. 
Flying about decaying trees. Not distinguishable 
from a common species of Melipona when on the wing. 
2. Epimelitta rufiventrisj n. sp. 
Nigra, abdomine rufo, opaco, griseo- sericeo, segmento 
prime tomento griseo dense marginato ; thorace sub- 
globuloso, postice constricto, grosse punctate, dorso spatio 
transverse laevi nitido, nigro-hirsuto, dorso antico cano- 
pubescenti ; elytris vitta sub-obliqua a basi ad apicem 
albo-testacea vitrea, intus vitta nigro-velutina marginata, 
plaga scutellari nitida ; pedibus piceo-rufis, griseo- 
pilosis, femoribus posticis infra barbatis, tibiis intus et 
extus longe griseo-hirsutis. 
Long. 64 lin. $ . 
Hah. — Ega ; on the trunk of a dead tree. 
Genus ^chmutes. 
Bates, Entom. Monthly Mag. iv. 23 (1867) ; Lacord. 
Gen. viii. 511. 
(Charac. emend.). Facies Lycorum (Fam. Lycidarum) . 
Corpus oblongum, depressum, postice dilatatum, elytris 
