32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan. '04 



Raleigh, (E. C. > July 15, 1902. Along road in open mixed 

 woods. F. Sherman. 



Durham, (C.) Aug. 1902. In field near mixed woods. F. 

 Sherman. 



Oakdale, (C.) Aug. 22, 1902. F. Sherman. 



Greensboro, (C.") Aug. 1902. F. Sherman. 



19. Cicindela abdominalis Fab. Hen. No. 67. 



Only records from southeastern part of state. Specimens in 

 N. C. Dept. Agr. Collection. 



Souther)! Pines, (S. E. ) Aug. 15,. 1902. At edge of pine 

 woods. F. Sherman. 



Wilmington, (S. E.) Wenzel. 



Two New Bees. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Authophora stanfordiana n. sp. ?. Length about 15 mm. ; black, with 

 erect black hair, except that the mesothorax as far back as the hind edge 

 of the tegulae, and the dorsum of the second abdominal segment except 

 basally, are thickly covered with ochraceous hair, and there is a little 

 pale hair in other places, namely on the face, labrum, hind margin of 

 third dorsal abdominal segment, and especially on the fourth and fifth 

 ventral segments of the abdomen, where the light hairs are both numer- 

 ous and long. The femora are dark red, but the tibiae are reddish-black, 

 while the tarsi are dark with the small joints reddish ; the hair on the 

 legs is black, but the middle tibiae are tipped with pale, and there is at 

 the apex of the basal joints of the hind tarsi a very conspicuous golden 

 brush ; the spurs of the middle legs are dark with strongly curved red 

 tips. Tegulae black and shining, with close minute punctures ; wings 

 fuliginous, basal nervure meeting transverse-medial. 



$. Length about 15 mm. ; black, the clypeus, supraclypeal stripe, 

 labrum, spot on mandibles, lateral face-marks and front of scape, light 

 yellow ; the upper edge of the lateral face-marks is deeply concave, the 

 orbital side ending in a sharp point at the lower level of the antenna' 

 sockets ; flagellum entirely black ; hair at face, front and cheeks long and 

 white, of occiput black ; hair of thorax long and creamy-white, except 

 on hind part of mesothorax, scutellum, and between the wings and the 

 middle and hind coxae, where it is black ; mesothorax and scutellum with 

 smooth and shining areas ; wings considerably lighter than in the female ; 

 legs with mixed black and light hair, long and white on outside of tibiae 



