THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 297 



NEW BEES OF THE SUBFAMILY ANTHOPHORIN/E FROM 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, E. LAS VEGAS, N. M. 

 ( Continued from page 287.) 



Anthophora catalince, n. sp. — ? . Length 1 4 millim., black (including 

 face, mandibles and antennae), with fulvous, yellowish-white and black 

 pubescence. Pubescence of face dull yellowish-white, a few black hairs 

 at the sides of the clypeus, a long pale fulvous tuft on each side of the 

 anterior ocellus ; hair of vertex long, erect and black, of occiput 

 yellowish-white, of cheeks yellowish-white above and white below; hair of 

 thorax pale fulvous, mixed with black on mesothorax and scutellum ; 

 lower half of pleura clothed with black hair; abdomen with dense pale 

 fulvous hair-bands at the apices of the first four segments ; apex with 

 black hair; ventral surface of abdomen with black hair, except at the 

 sides, where the pale apical bands of the upper surface are combined 

 for a short distance ; legs clothed beneath with black hair, above largely 

 with pale ; fringe of anterior tarsi wholly black ; long hair on outer side 

 of hind tibia and basal joint of tarsus black on the anterior half 

 (extending longitudinally) and shining very pale yellowish on the 

 posterior half. 



Structure of A. urbana, Cresson, of which it is the insular 

 representative. 



Hub. — Catalina Island, California, Aug., 1901. (Wilmatte P. 

 Cocker el I.) 



This bee differs strikingly in colour from A. urbana, which is 

 common on the mainland. I found ordinary urbana flying on July 8th 

 at San Pedro, which is on the coast nearly opposite Catalina. 



Melissodes personatella, n. sp. — $. Length 10 millim.; black; 

 head much broader than long, facial quadrangle somewhat narrowed 

 below ; face entirely black, covered, as also the cheeks, with long white 

 hair ; mandibles black, with a ferruginous subapical spot ; vertex on each 

 side of the ocelli concave, smooth and shining, with minute, hardly 

 noticeable punctures ; antenna very long, reaching to apex of second 

 abdominal segment ; scape short and stout, black ; flagellum ferruginous 

 beneath, second joint considerably longer than third; mesothorax shining 

 and sparsely punctured, thinly clothed, as also the scutellum, with long 

 black hair ; hair on prothorax, pleura, post scutellum and metathorax 



