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Type : Warbonnet Canyon, Sioux Co., Nebraska, July 23, 

 1901, on Monarda fistulosa (M. A. Carriker) i 9 . 



From A. affabilis this species may be known by its shorter 

 third antennal joint and dark thoracic hair; from A. siinilliina 

 montana by its black thoracic hair and distinct narrow white 

 fasciae ; these species flying in the same region at about the 

 same time. 



Authophora fnmipennis n. sp. 



9 . Length 14 mm. Closely related to A. abrupt a Say., but differing 

 in having the whole of the first and medially the anterior half of the 

 second abdominal segments with pale hair ( in abrupta only the basal 

 truncation of the abdomen has pale hair) and the wings very much 

 darker, quite smoky. Thorax, abdomen as above described, and ver- 

 tex with pale ochreous hair, pubescence elsewhere black. 



Type : Cass County, Nebraska, i 9 . 



This form needs no comparison with any species except 

 abrupta, of which it may possibly prove to be a variety. 



Anthophora scutellaris n. sp. 



9. Length 13-14 mm. A representative of the bomboides group, 

 apparently closely related to A. stanfordiana Ckll., but differing in 

 having the apical portion of the first and the whole of the second and 

 third abdominal segments with their dorsum covered with pale yellow- 

 ish fulvous hair (in stanfordiana only the second segment, except base, 

 and the hind margin of third segment bears pale hair), the labrum with 

 black hair, no long pale hair on the ventral surface of the fourth and 

 fifth abdominal segments, the legs all black or blackish and covered 

 with black hair, the wings only slightly darkened, the black hair of the 

 scutellum and metathorax sometimes encroaching anteriorly upon the 

 disk. Also very close to A. neoinc.vicana Ckll., but easily separated by 

 having the hair of the scutellum black and of vertex also largely black. 



Type: Sioux Co., Nebraska (L. B rimer) i 9 . 



Paratype : Warbonnet Canyon, Sioux Co., Nebraska, June 

 27, 1901 (J. C. Crawford) i 9 . 



This is the form from Sioux Co., Nebraska, referred to by 

 Professor Cockerell in his original description of A. ncoinc.vi- 

 cana, to which, species he referred it ( Ann. Mag. Xat. 1 list. Scr. 

 7, Vol. v, pp. 408-409, May 1900), but there appears to me no 

 good reason for not considering it perfectly distinct. 



