THE PHILIPPINE BEES OF THE FAMILIES ANTHO- 
PHORID^ AND MELECTID^ 
By T. D. A. Cockerell 
{University of Colorado) 
The two families now discussed include the most highly or- 
namented Philippine bees, remarkable for their blue or green 
markings, due to appressed scalelike hairs. They are long- 
tongued; the Anthophoridse make nests, in which the Melectidse 
are parasitic. The latter are represented by the genus (7ro- 
cisa, which is easily known by the expanded emarginate scu- 
tellum, with the margin W-like or , — ^ — ^-like, according to the 
species. The species of Anthophora are swift and powerful 
fliers. 
Genus ANTHOPHORA Fabricius 
Abdomen with narrow white hair bands; a large robust species. 
luzonica Cockerell. 
Abdomen with lilac or purple bands whiteheadi Cockerell. 
Abdomen with shining green or bluish green bands .... korotonensis Cockerell. 
Anthophora luzonica Cockerell. 
Anthophora luzonica Cockerell, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1914), 
VIII, 14, 12. 
Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling {Baker). 
Anthophora whiteheadi Cockerell. 
Anthophora zonata whiteheadi Cockerell, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(1910), VIII, 5, 412; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1911), 40, 259. 
Luzon, Cagayan, Cape Engano {Whitehead) . It is probably 
this insect that has been erroneously listed from the Philippines 
as A. cingulata Fabricius. 
Anthophora korotonensis Cockerell. 
Anthophora korotonensis Cockerell, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (May, 
1911), VIII, 7, 491. 
Anthophora zonata stantoni Cockerell, Entomologist (July, 1911), 
44, 233; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1915), VIII, 16, 4. 
This is the species reported from the Philippine Islands as 
A. zonata Linnseus. I described it as A. korotonensis from 
a single male taken at Koroton, Formosa. The name stantoni 
was based on a female from Manila. A series of males from 
the Philippine Islands shows that both names refer to a single 
species. The females vary in the color of the bands on the ab- 
domen, as follows: 
164001 3 195 
