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SYNOPSIS OF BEES OF OREGON, WASHINGTON, BRITISH 

 COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER— IV. 



BY H. L. VIERECK, ASSISTED BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, E. S. U. TITUS, J. C. 

 CRAWFORD, JR., AND U. H. SWENK. 



(Continued from page 287).* 



Anthophorid^:. 



AntJiophoi-a, Latr., and Emphoropsis, Ashm. 



Clothed with cinereous pubescence, which on the dorsulum, face, second, 



third, fourth and fiftii abdominal segments is thinly mixed with 



black ; posterior tibite and metatarsi, the latter largely, covered 



with whitish hairs ; metatarsus with a broad brush of brown hairs 



on the apical margin ; length about 15 mm , ignava. 



Similar to ignava in size and pubescence, but the posterior tibiae and tarsi 



with bright fulvous pubescence Emphoropsis cineraria. 



Pubescence of face and vertex mixed \vith black; pubescence of thorax 

 and of the first abdominal segment very bright orange fulvous, not 

 at all mixed with black ; hair on lower part of i)leura 



black Emphoropsis floridana Pascoensis. 



Face, dorsulum anteriorly and base of abdomen with ochraceous pubes- 

 cence. 

 Second and third segments of the abdomen with fulvous 



pubescence insularis. 



Second and third segments of the abdomen with ochrcous and black 

 pubescence respectively, the first and second segments alone 



being covered with pale hair Stanfordiana. 



Abdomen almost entirely black, only the apex of venter with 



pale ha'r Solitaria. 



Anthophora Washingtoni, Ckll., n. sp. 



" ?. — Length about 14 mm.; nearly agreeing with the description of 

 A. Edwardsii, Cresson, but conspicuously differing " by the white hair- 

 bands on the hind margins of the abdominal segment; weak or rudimentary 

 on the first, but very strong, white and entire, though rather narrow, on 

 segments 2 to 4 (Mr. Vincent writes me that in Edwardsii " the hair 

 bands are practically wanting"). "The pubescence is grayish-white, with 

 a strong admixture of black on the vertex and dorsum of thorax; the third? 



*The following- correction should be made in the preceding- part of this 

 paper: Page 287, line g from bottom, for '^ iVo/ztada intercepta., Sm., n. sp. — 

 Hym. Brit. Mus.," read '■' Nomada iutcrcepfa, Sm. — New Spec. Hym. Biit. Mus," 

 September, 1905. 



