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yellow above, especially on the scutellum; head ordinary, facial quadrangle 

 about square ; antennae rather long, flagellum dark ferruginous beneath 

 towards end ; cheeks tessellate and hardly or not punctured; front below 

 ocelli striate ; clypeus granular and dull at the sides, but disc strongly 

 shining, with strong sparse punctures, the lower middle almost wholly 

 impunctate; process of labrum rounded, broad, the end very slightly trun- 

 cate ; mesothorax minutely tessellate, dull, with shallow, hardly visible, 

 punctures, median and parapsidal grooves distinct ; scutellum slightly 

 shining but not polished ; base of metathorax granular, no transverse 

 ridge ; tegula? piceous in front, dark reddish-brown posteriorly ; wings 

 nearly clear, apical margin slightly dusky ; stigma clear ferruginous, 

 nervures darker ; legs dark, hair on inner side of basal joints of middle 

 and hind tarsi fulvous ; abdomen broad, tessellate-impunctate, without 

 hair-bands ; fimbria fulvous. 



Hab. — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 19. (Dr. S. Graenicher.) 

 When one looks at the head from above, the broad facial fovese are seen 

 to have a strong red tint, which is very distinctive of the species. 



Andrena clypeonitens, n. sp. 



9. — Length about gj4 mm.; black; pubescence pale ochreous, 

 brighter on scutellum ; head broad, facial quadrangle somewhat broader 

 than long ; antennse dark, flagellum very faintly reddish towards tip ; 

 front below ocelli striate ; disc of clypeus bare, sparsely punctured, with 

 a large shining impunctate space ; process of labrum broad and rounded ; 

 facial fovese pallid, rather broad, adjacent to eyes ; mesothorax dull, 

 minutely tessellate, impunctate ; basal area of metathorax dull, defined 

 only by absence of hair ; tegulse very dark brown ; wings smoky, 

 nervures dark brown, stigma dark ferruginous, with a dark brown margin ; 

 second submarginal cell nearly square ; legs black, the three first small 

 joints of tarsi deep ferruginous ; hair on inner side of basal joint of hind 

 tarsi fuscous, shining coppery ; abdomen tessellate-impunctate, with 

 continuous white hair-bands, that on the first segment reduced to a (e\v 

 scattered hairs, those on the others dense and conspicuous ; fimbria and 

 hair of penultimate segment dark purplish-gray. 



Hab. — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aug. 19. (Dr. S. Graenicher.) A 

 species of the group of A. solidaginis and A. xanthigera. The clypeus 

 will at once separate it from A. solidaginis, which occurs in the same 

 region. 



