444 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., *I2 



New Records of Bees (Hymen.). 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. 

 Xylocopa orpifex Smith. 



Knight's Valley, California. British Museum (506 84, 73.) 



Xylocopa arizonensis Cresson. 



Lake County, California; both sexes (O. T. Baron). Brit. 

 Museum. 



Alcidamea simplex (Cresson). 



Trenton Falls, New York (E. Doubleday) ; from F. Smith's 

 collection; two males, Brit. Museum. 



Hypanthidium aureocinctum sp. n. 



Q Length a little over / mm., moderately robust ; head and thorax 

 densely punctured, black, marked with yellow; clypeus, mandibles (ex- 

 cept apical margin), malar space, cheeks, a broad band across hind 

 part of vertex (continuous with yellow of cheeks), broad bands at 

 sides of face (extending to top of eyes), and a large U-shaped mark 

 between antennae, all chrome yellow ; region between antennae some- 

 what elevated; black of front extending downward to top of clypeus 

 as a narrow band on each side; scape and base of flagellum light 

 orange-ferruginous; rest of flagellum also ferruginous, but more 

 dusky; occiput black; prothorax black, but tubercles tipped with yel- 

 low; pleura mainly yellow; mesothorax with a narrow yellow (reddish- 

 tinted) margin on each side and in front, except about the middle fifth 

 in front, where the bands are connected with narrow stripes extending 

 backward over the mesothorax; scutellum projecting, emarginate in 

 middle, the apical margin, with the axillae, broadly chrome yellow ; 

 metathorax black, dull, the base with a series of pits; hair of head and 

 thorax pale yellowish, scanty; tegulee dull orange, ferruginous in mid- 

 dle ; wings dusky, strongly so in costal region ; second r. n. going 

 well beyond second s. m. ; legs yellow, the femora and tibiae marked 

 with ferruginous ; no pulvilli ; abdomen strongly punctured, the punc- 

 tures large on the basal half of the segments, small and dense on the 

 apical part ; the segments black at base, broadly ferruginous at apex, 

 each with a very broad entire chrome yellow band, which is not notch- 

 ed sub-laterally or in the middle; on the first segment the band bends 

 sharply at its ends, sending a short process along the sides ; the fifth 

 and sixth segments appear all yellow, except that the fifth is obscurely 

 ferruginous apically, and the sixth has a subapical dark interrupted 

 band; ventral scopa yellowish-white. 



