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The specimens from the type locality were collected on July 

 7, and paratype Ocean County, N. J. (J. B. Smith) ; paratypes 

 from Clementon, X. J., June 25, 1899 (collected by the writer 

 and in the collections of the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station and the Academy of Xatural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, and June 24, 1906 (H. S. Harbeck) show variation in 

 size and in the sculpture of the metanotum, there being on the 

 latter longitudinal and lateral carina? in addition to the median 

 longitudinal carinae, which are about as stout as the last mem- 

 tioned carin;e. 



Two of the paratopotypes are somewhat smaller than the 

 type ; the paratype from Brown's Mills Junction has the carina 

 of metanotum and the metapleural carinae poorly defined. 



Superfamily APOIDEA. 

 BRACHYCEPHALAPIS, new subgenus. 



Type B. californica new species. 



Differs from Melitta ainericana Sin. in that the head is 

 \vider than long, whereas in the above species it is as wide as 

 long. The relation of the posterior angle of the mandible is 

 as in Melitta ainericana Sm. or the same as in Robertson's An- 

 thophoroidea, but in other major characteristics it is as in the 

 same author's Andrenoidea. 



Melitta (Brachycephalapis) californica, new species. 



Female 14 mm. Third abscissa of the radius about two-thirds as long 

 as the second transverse cubitus, the first abscissa of the radius as long 

 as or a little longer than the radial side of the stigma, the transverse 

 median vein practically interstitial with the basal vein, the second 

 abscissa of the radius a little longer than the third abscissa of the radius 

 Pihick pubescence or hairs on the vertex and along the inner eye margin. 

 pale yellowish hairs on the inner side of the posterior metatarsi, the 

 dark hairs of the anal fimbria brown, otherwise essentially as in M. 

 iiiiit-ric<iiiii Sin. 



"O'/r California \cademy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal. 



Type locality, Santa Margarita Island. Lower California. 



One paratype, Xo. 1225f> ('. S. Xational Museum, with 

 almost exactly the same characteristics as the typo, from Mag- 

 dalena Bay, Lower California. Both taken in March. 



COQUILLETTAPIS, new genus. 



Type C. mclittoides new species. 



Related to Entechnia, from which it differs in- the relation 

 of the posterior angle of the mandibles to the eye, which is 



