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THE HABROPODA AND DIDASIA OF CALIFORNIA. 



BY CARROLL FOWLER, BERKELEY, CAL. 



The following is a list of the species of these two groups occurring in 

 California, with notes on those forms known to me ; 



Habropoda, Smith. 

 A small group of bees, comparatively local in their habits, and in 

 appearance very much like the larger species of Anthophora. 



Legs with black pubescence floridana. 



Legs with pale pubescence. 



Abdomen (except on first segment) with depressed, pale pubescence 

 interspersed with erect, black hairs ; $ with scape yellow in 



front depressa. 



Abdomen without black hairs, pale pubescence erect ; $ with scape 

 black miserabilis. 



1. Habropoda floridana, Smith. — Redonda, Cal. (H. O. Woodworth), 

 May 23. One female. 



2. Habropoda depressa, n. sp. 



9 14 mm., cj 12-13 '^i^''- Clothed with mixed black and pale 

 pubescence, the latter depressed on the abdomen. 



$ . — Head black, clothed with ashy pubescence, mixed with black 

 on vertex, dense and white on cheeks and labrum, thin on clypeus, which 

 is strongly punctured ; antennae black. Thorax clothed with pale pubes- 

 cence, thin on disc and strongly mixed with black above, dense white 

 beneath : wings subhyaline ; legs clothed with pale pubescence more or 

 less tinged with yellow, very dense on posterior femora and tibi», brown 

 on metatarsi beneath, a bunch of black pubescence at apex of posterior 

 metatarsi ; claws reddish. Abdomen black, narrow apical margins of 

 the segments brown ; first segment clothed with erect, white pubescence, 

 except on apical margin, where it is black ; the remaining segments with 

 appressed, yellow pubescence interspersed with erect black hairs. Ven- 

 tral segments shining, fringed with long, pale pubescence. 



$ . — Differs from 5 in having narrow lines on the sides of the face, 

 clypeus except narrow lateral margins, mandibles except tips, and scape 

 in front yellowish-white ; legs with white pubescence, which is a little 

 longer on the tibias and posterior tarsi behind, and quite long on the 

 anterior and posterior femora ; venter thickly clothed with white pubes- 

 cence. 



