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9 . Length, 8 mm. Clypeus almost bare, shining, with punctures 

 lengthened and often confluent, near the margins the punctures are more 

 regular, the rest of the face covered with a dirty-looking pubescence, not 

 long nor so thick as to obscure the surface, which is so closely punctured 

 as to have a rugose appearance ; the head above shining, indistinctly 

 punctured, the pubescence longer and sparser than on face, rather 

 yellowish ; labrum with a distinct dent in the middle, to the sides 

 polished and with traces of dents ; mandibles grooved, with an almost 

 obsolete tooth within the apex ; the cheeks with a paler pubescence, the 

 sculpture indistinct ; first joint of flagellum distinctly longer than the 

 second ; hardly any space between eyes and base of mandibles ; dorsulum 

 shining, with close, distinct, deep punctures, punctures sparse in the 

 middle of posterior half; scutelkim with a few punctures. Mesopleura 

 with distinct punctures, closer than on the dorsulum ; disc of metathorax 

 divided into pits, the middle one almost oblong, the largest, the lateral 

 each narrower than the one before ; enclosure of posterior face of 

 metathorax with a broad neck, its surface not perfectly smooth, but 

 shining, the neighbouring areas indistinctly sculptured, less shining than 

 the middle area ; the thorax above with a short yellowish pubescence, 

 that on the sides whitish, the same on the legs. Abdomen subopaque, 

 very finely sculptured with indistinct punctures, those on first segment not 

 so close as on the rest, therefore it is more shining ; the base of abdomen 

 pubescent, much like the dorsum of thorax, the other segments with a thin, 

 light, appressed pubescence, except the apical segment; all with a distinct 

 fascia of appressed yellowish pubescence ; ultimate segment with brown 

 hair. Black mandibles and tibite brownish ; wings yellowish, nervures 

 brown ; stigma paler ; first recurrent nervure received by the second 

 submarginal cell a little before the middle. 



c£ . Length, 7 mm. Excepting the ordinary sexual characters, the 

 male fits the description of the J . Face below antennae hidden with a 

 long, yellowish pubescence; pits on disc of metathorax narrower ; tarsi 

 testaceous. 



Four specimens from Georgia (Morrison), Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 



Colletes nitidus, Sm. 



Colletes nitidus, Sm. New Sp. Hym., B. M., p. 1, 1879, 9 6 • 

 Type locality, E. Florida. 



T. Length, 8 mm. Face below antenna? hidden by long, pale 

 pubescence, faintly yellowish ; lace above indistinctly sculptured, 



