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Psyche 
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A competent coleopterist, my friend Mr. P. J. Darlington, 
now in Colombia, writes that he has obtained larvae and adults 
of Pelecium sulcatum ; and it is to be hoped that the curious life 
history indicated by my own fragmentary observations will soon 
be completely eluc^ipated. 
References. 
Dupuis, Paul. 
1913 Peleciinae. Genera Insectorum (Wytsman), Fasc. 146, 
5 pp., 1 pi. 
Silvestri, Filippo 
1905 Contribuzione alia conoscenza della metamorfosi e dei 
costumi della Lebia scapularis Fourc. Redia 2 (1): 68-84, 
pi. 3-7. 
SOME COLOMBIAN IMfORiD/E FROM TFIE NESTS OF 
STINGLESS BEES. 1 
By Charles T. Brues. 
Dr. George Salt recently gave me a series of several species 
of Phoridae which he collected in the neighborhood of Santa 
Marta, Colombia during the course of some studies on the 
biology of certain stingless bees. 
One of the species is undescribed, and as Dr. Salt wishes to 
refer to it in the account of his investigations, I take this op- 
portunity to describe it. 
Melittophora, gen. nov. 
A member of the Platyphorinae as defined by Schmitz. 
Body very broad and much flattened, with stout legs and fully 
developed wings in the female. 
Head (Fig. 1, A) in front view slightly more than half 
wider than high, strongly flattened and closely applied to the 
thorax; the occipital margin acute and the posterior surface 
Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institu- 
tion, Harvard University, No. 295. 
