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ColUtes Pascoensis, Ckll., Proc. Acad. Nat., Sci., Phil., 1898, p. 51. 



Type locality : Pasco, Wash. (Ckll.) 

 Colletes Kincaidii, Ckll., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil., 1898, p. 52. 



Type locality : Olympia, Wash. (Ckll.) 

 Colletes delodontus^ Vier., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxix., p. 60. 



One $ , Pasco, Wash., May 25, 1896, 

 Colletes simulans, Cress., Proc, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xii., p. 165. 



Two ^ cJ's, Olympia, Wash., July 4, 1896. 



Colletes fulgidus, n. sp. — $. Length, 10 mm. Black, shining. 

 Head broad, orbit extremities bluntly rounded. Clypeus flat, shining, 

 very coarsely striately punctured, depressed before truncate apex, with 

 short scattered, pale hairs. Middle of supraclypeal area shining, about 

 impunctate. Front dull, with small crowded punctures, sparsely covered 

 with short gray pubescence. Vertex not depressed, shining, very finely 

 and rather closely punctured, with erect pale pubescence and a few black 

 hairs intermixed. Cheeks punctured like vertex, the pubescence short 

 and sparse. Malar space less than one-fourth width of mandible at base. 

 Mandibles black, the notch not far from the spatulate, rufescent tip. 

 Labrum shining with a deep, round median pit and lateral grooves. 

 Antennae black, the flagellum sometimes very obscurely brownish beneath, 

 and its basal joint a shade longer than second. 



Prothoracic spine short, but stout and sharp, triangular. Meso- 

 thoiax very coarsely and deeply punctured, the punctures very close but 

 rarely cancellate, on the polished disc well separated and few, on either 

 side a longitudinal sub-impunctate line. Scutellum hardly punctured, 

 except along posterior margin, postscutellum dull and finely roughened. 

 Anterior margin of thorax with a rather dense fringe of erect hairs, whitish 

 tinged with ochraceous and mixed with black, this passing along sides 

 within tegulse and covering postscutellum, where the black hairs are 

 lacking. Space within this circle of pubescence almost bare, the hairs 

 few, scattered, bristle-like and all black, a fringe of black hairs along 

 posterior edge of scutellum. Superior face of metathorax rather poorly 

 defined, but a decided rim beyond postscutellum, the sub-rectangular pits 

 well formed, shining, scarcely wider medially, about twice as long as 

 broad. Posterior face of metathorax shining, the lateral faces with sparse, 

 long, white pubescence and very coarsely and irregularly punctured, 

 forming a rough surface, the enclosure funnel-shaped, its bowl ridged 

 laterally and with a median longitudinal groove, not so polished as the 



