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of mud on the outside, but beautifully glazed and polished with- 

 in. The opening by which the bee emerged was rather larger 

 than its body, and the cell or chamber was probably closed by 

 a lid as in the English O. .ranthomclana. The species of Osmia 

 vary greatly in the manner of constructing their nests; some 

 tunnel in sandy banks, posts and decayed trees, while others 

 use tubes and small cavities already formed. Several Ameri- 

 can species are known to construct earthen cells about half an 

 inch in diameter. 



A new species of Andrena. 

 BY H. L,. VIERECK, Washington, D. C. 



Andrena Carolina n. sp. 



9- Length about 10 mm.; occipito clypeal distance* greater than the 

 ocular distance, f facial fovea extending below the antennal line.J the 

 former with its greatest width greater than two-thirds of the shortest 

 distance between the lateral ocellus and nearest eye, third joint of an- 

 tennae longer than fourth, plus fifth, but shorter than fourth, plus fifth, 

 plus sixth, clypeus punctured, polished, with a median longitudinal im- 

 punctate area, process of labrum broadly rounded ; abdomen with the 

 second dorsal segment depressed less than one-half the distance between 

 base and apex of the same segment, abdomen fasciate. Tegment almost 

 throughout black or very dark brown in color, most of the hairs pale 

 ochreous, the great majority of the hairs of the tibial scopa not branched 

 but simple. 



Type locality, North Carolina, U. S. A. 



Type in the collection of the Amer. Ent. Soc., Phila., Pa. 



NOTES ON Two ARGIOPID GENERA. Crosby (Proc. Phila. Acad. Sci. 

 LVII, 1905) proposed for the Genus Dicyphus Menge, preoccupied in 

 the Hemiptera, the name Hypomma, but as Mr. F. P. Smith (Journ. 

 Quekett Micros. Club, London, IV, 1904) has for the same reason given 

 it the name Enidia, Crosby's genus must fall. Even were this not so, 

 Hypomma would have been invalid, as Dahl in 1886 used that name 

 for a Theridid genus. Smitheria nov. nom., type (Nericne) (Fal- 

 cocria) cornuta Blackwall, for Falconeria Smith, preoccupied by Theo- 

 bald in the reptiles. KARL R. COOUDGE. 



* The distance between the highest point on the vertex and the middle of apex of the 

 clypeus. 



t The distance between the outermost point on each eye. 



I An imaginary straight line drawn tangent to the lowest point in the lowest point in 

 the edge of each antennal fossa. 



