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Vol XXVIII. LONDON, AUGUST, 1896. No. 8. 



NEW BEES OF THE GENERA XENOGLOSSA AND PODA- 



LIRIUS (Anthophora). 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, MESILl.A, NEW MEXICO. 



Xenoglossa patricia, n. sp. — (^ . Length about 22 mm., very stoutly 

 built ; head and thorax black, densely covered with short fulvous pu- 

 bescence; abdomen and legs bright chestnut red. Head broad, eyes black, 

 orbits somewhat converging above, ocelli very large, a linear groove 

 descending from middle ocellus, vertex obscurely tessellate ; clypeus 

 broad, yellow, its upper margin suffused with orange, and its anterior 

 margin narrowly rufous ; surface of clypeus rough so as to look like the 

 skin of a lemon ; labrum yellow, with appressed, very short, pale fulvous 

 pubescence ; mandibles long, simple, with a large yellow patch near the 

 base, suffused outwardly into a reddish tongue, which gradually loses 

 itself in the black of the tips. Antennte hardly reaching beyond tegulae, 

 piceous, with the scape, funicle, and first and last joints of flagellum, 

 rufescent. First joint of flagellum longer than the two following, but not 

 so long as the three following. Sculpture of thorax cannot be seen for 

 the pubescence. Tegulas reddish-testaceous. Wings smoky, nervures 

 piceous, venation as in X. fulva. Legs with appressed orange-riifous 

 pubescence, spurs rufous, claws black at ends, strongly bifid, spur of 

 anterior tibia with a broad hyaline wing, as is also the case with X. fulva. 

 Abdomen moderately shining, with small, close punctures ; first segment 

 with fulvous pubescence at base, the rest bare, but for the fine reddish- 

 fulvous pile, conspicuous when the abdomen is viewed from the side. 

 Ventral segments fringed with reddish-fulvous hairs. Apex produced, 

 black at the broadly truncate end ; the apex is more produced and much 

 K. narrower than in X. fulva. Sixth segment with a broad blunt tooth on 



 each side. 



 Habitat. — Mesilla, New Mexico. At about a quarter to nine on the 

 » morning of June 21, 1896, the day being very hot and rather cloudy, I 



 opened, in the town of Mesilla, a number of flowers of Cucurbita 

 ^L perennis. The flowers contained great numbers of Dlabrotica 12- 



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