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apart, scutel and metanotum sculptured much like the dorsulum, 

 the metanotum with the sculpture indefinite on its posterior edge, 

 tegulse and wing base dark brown, subcosta and stigma almost 

 concolorous, dark brown, rest of veins and the membrane brown- 

 ish stramineous, second submarginal cell apparently longer than the 

 first, second abscissa of cubitus apparently as long as the first trans- 

 verse cubitus, nearly half as long as the third and nearly one and 

 one-half times as long as the fourth abscissa of the cubitus, nervulus 

 received by the median cell and forming an acute angle with the 

 second abscissa of the median vein, pubescence of the brownish to 

 black legs whitish with a brownish tinge excepting the fore legs, the 

 pubescence of which is mostly fuscous, like the hairs at the base of 

 the scopa, scopa loose and nearly typical in character on the lower 

 half where its hairs are simple and whitish, atypical on the upper 

 half where the hairs are mostly branched and brownish, hairs of 

 the inner side of hind metatarsus silvery and pale golden, onychii 

 and claws pale stramineous, the latter with dark tips; propodeum 

 with its enclosure funnel shaped, well defined, finely sculptured and 

 with an irregular net work of rugse in addition to the underlying 

 sculpture, rest of propodeum except its pleurae sculptured much like 

 the enclosure but more coarsely so, propodeal pleurae finely reticulated 

 and with a few crater-like punctures, posterior face of propodeum 

 with a narrow, median, longitudinal sulcus; abdomen sculptured like 

 the dorsulum but with distinctly smaller punctures that are appar- 

 ently, in part, more widely separated, second tergite depressed 

 distinctly less than one-half but more than one-third, abdomeft 

 covered with fine whitish hair that is erect on the basal tergite and 

 appressed elsewhere, depressed portions of second, third and fourth 

 tergites more or less brownish stramineous, ventral aspect of third 

 tergite brownish, fimbria pale brown, pygidium distinctly longer 

 than wide at base, planate, rounded at apex, with a finely sculp- 

 tured enclosure, the sculpture of which resembles stippling, base of 

 pygidium pale brown followed by dark brown, most of pygidium 

 black. 



Andrena (Parandrena) submoesta new species. 



Type. — No. 4,025. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Type Locality. — California; no further data; on the locality 

 label is a written "u." 



Related to A. (P.) subchalybea Viereck. 



Female. — Length 7 mm.; body greenish and clothed with whitish 



