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whitish hair hand that is interrupted in the middle of the second and 

 third tergites, apical edge of first, second, third and fourth tergites 

 with a whitish stramineous border, second tergite with its elevated 

 portion down the middle : depressed portion :: 18 : 9, fifth tergite 

 dullish, reticulate, its punctures larger than on the other tergites, 

 pygidium nearly planate, sculptured, punctate and rugulose, nearly 

 truncate at apex, tergum with inconspicuous whitish hairs in addition 

 to the hair bands and the nearly erect whitish hairs laterally on the 

 first and second tergites, fimbria pale brown. 



Andrena (Andrena) sancta new species. 



Type. — No. 4,017. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Type Locality. — California (no additional data except a written n. 

 on the locality label) . 



Related to A. (A.) parnassice Cockerell. 



Female.- — Length 10 mm. ; body black, mostly covered with whitish 

 hairs; head with its facial line : transfacial line :: 53 : 71, axial 

 line : temporal line :: 29 : 10, malar line : joint 3 of antennae :: 

 1.5 : 9, elevated portion of malar space nearly wanting, head 

 covered with whitish hairs, front shiny, finely longitudinally striate, 

 with a poorly defined crista and not elevated along the inner margin 

 of the fovea, fovea at most : ocellocular line :: 8 : 13, foveal band 

 nearly wanting, fovea virtually contiguous to the upper end of the 

 inner eye margin, distance between fovea and ocelli : ocellocular 

 line :: : 13, fovea somewhat constricted near its upper end, nearly 

 parallel sided throughout and continued below the constriction as a 

 shallow furrow down to a point apparently a little below the clypeal 

 line, fovea pale seal-brown above its middle, pale ochreous or whitish 

 below, fovarea wanting, face dullish, finely reticulated and indefinitely 

 punctured, clypeus distinctly elevated above the apical margin, 

 slightly convex, with its basal half sculptured much like the face but 

 distinctly punctured, the apical half mostly almost polished and 

 coarsely punctured, the punctures from nearly adjoining to two 

 puncture widths apart on each side of the impunctate, median 

 longitudinal, feeble, welt-like clypearea, clypeus thinly hairy, its 

 surface not hidden, labrarea truncate, width at base : length down 

 the middle :: 11 : 5, width at apex : length down the middle :: 3 : 5, 

 labrarea at base nearly two-thirds as wide as the labrum, the latter 

 with a fringe of pale stramineous hairs, joint 3 of antennse : 4 + 

 5 :: 9 : 9, joint 4 as thick as long, the succeeding joints a little longer 

 than thick except the fifth which is as long as thick and the end 

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