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and a little longer than the fourth abscissa of the cubitus, nervulus 

 received by the median cell, nearly interstitial and forming an acute 

 angle with the second abscissa of the median vein, legs dark brown, 

 covered with whitish or pale ochreous hairs except on the scopa where 

 the hairs of the upper half are brownish like the hairs at the base of 

 hind tibiae, inner side of hind metatarsus covered with golden brown 

 hairs, scopa loosely arranged, almost typical, onychii dark brown, 

 claws brownish stramineous the latter with brownish tips ; propodeum 

 with its enclosure funnel shaped, not well defined, rather coarsely 

 reticulated except on its posterior face where it is finely reticulated, 

 rest of propodeum more finely sculptured than the upper aspect of 

 the enclosure, propodeal pleurae fine reticulated and with a few indis- 

 tinctly defined punctures, posterior face of propodeum with a narrow 

 median, longitudinal sulcus; abdomen not fasciate, not sculptured 

 like the dorsulum, much more finely sculptured, reticulate, in addi- 

 tion to the reticulation there are widely separated, rather indefinite 

 punctures, second tergite depressed distinctly less than one-half 

 but more than one-third, abdomen 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 

 toward the apex which latter is brownish stramineous, ventral aspect 

 of third tergite somewhat brownish, fimbria dark brown, pygidium 

 black, planate, indefinitely sculptured and with an indistinctly 

 defined central area. 



Andrena (Parandrena) mendosa new species. 



Type. — No. 4,021. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 



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

 is a written j. 



Has characters in common with A. (P.) andrenoides (Cresson). 



Female. — Length 8 mm.; body black, covered with whitish hairs; 

 head covered with whitish hairs, with its facial line : transfacial 

 line :: 43 : 72, axial line : temporal line :: 22 : 13, front longitudi- 

 nally finely striate, foveal hairs whitish, fovea at most half as wide 

 as the ocellocular line is long, fovea attenuated below, extending to 

 or a little below the clypeal line, separated from the eye margin near 

 its upper end by a sloping nearly bare space that is nearly one-sixth 

 as wide as the ocellocular line is long, joint 3 of antennae : 4 + 

 5 :: 8 : 6, joints 4-10 inclusive wider or apparently wider than long, 

 terminal joint longer than wide and typical, antennae black or blackish 

 except beneath on the apical half where they are coffee-brown, face 



