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punctures on the elevated portion of the second and third tergites 

 where the punctures are from two to five puncture widths apart, 

 depressed portions of the second, third and fourth tergites almost 

 impunctatc, second tergite with its elevated portion down the 

 middle : depressed portion :: 17 : 11, fifth tergite with its punctures 

 coarse and as many as five or six puncture widths apart, pygidium 

 not planate hut convex, nearly pointed at apex, tergum with incon- 

 spicuous dark brown or blackish hairs, first tergite with some pale 

 hairs, tergum not fasciate, blackish to dark seal-brown. 



Andrena (Andrena) taeniata new species. 



Type. — No. 4,049. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Type Locality. — Southern California (H. K. Morrison). 



Related to A. (A.) peckhami Cockerell. 



Female. — Length 11 mm.; body black, mostly covered with whitish 

 hairs; head with its facial line : transfacial line :: 63 : 79, axial 

 line : temporal line :: 35 : 22, malar line : joint 3 of antennae :: 2 : 10, 

 elevated portion of malar space nearly wanting, head covered with 

 whitish hairs, front dullish, finely longitudinally striate, with a well- 

 developed crista, and not elevated along the inner margin of the fovea, 

 fovea at most : ocellocular line :: 11 : 16, fo veal band nearly wanting, 

 fovea virtually contiguous to the upper end of the inner eye margin, 

 distance between fovea and ocelli : ocellocular line :: 5 : 16, fovea 

 not constricted near its middle, nearly parallel sided throughout and 

 continued below as a shallow furrow down to a point apparently on 

 the clypeal line, fovea whitish or pale ochreous, fovarea wanting, 

 face shining, almost polished, punctured, the punctures close together 

 and rather poorly defined, clypeus distinctly elevated above the 

 apical margin, slightly convex, with a basal and lateral reticulate 

 punctured margin and a nearly polished punctured disc, the punc- 

 tures from nearly adjoining to five puncture widths apart, clypearea 

 poorly developed, clypeus thinly hairy, its surface not hidden, 

 labrarea emarginate beneath what appears to be the apical 

 truncature, width at base : length down the middle :: 14 : 4, width 

 at apex : length down the middle :: 7 : 4, greatest length of 

 labrarea : width at base : : 5 : 14, labrarea at base two-thirds as wide 

 as the labrum, the latter with a fringe of pale stramineous hairs, 

 joint 3 of antennae : 4 + 5 :: 10 : 9, joint 4 a little thicker than 

 long, joint 5 as long as thick, the succeeding joints apparent 1}' a little 

 longer than thick, antennae blackish throughout, end joint distinctly 

 longer than thick, mandibles typical, robust, extending to a little 



