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outer surface of posterior tibice with black hairs among the longer pale 

 ones; abdominal fasciae thinner. 



c^ . Length 10-12 mm. Distinguishable from the (^ of //^^r^^/V//^ by 

 its larger size; much heavier and broader head; longer malar space, two- 

 thirds as long as broad ; shorter antenuce, falling short of metathoracic trun- 

 cation, and with joint 3 one-half as long as 4; legs much less polished ; ab- 

 domen with basal segments less regularly and more coarsely punctured, the 

 second segment only a little more finely punctured, the fasciae narrower, 

 looser, more grayish. 



One aberrant female from Clementon is only 12 mm. long, has rather 

 clearer wings and a narrower, more polished abdomen. I do not, how- 

 ever, regard it as distinct. 



Types. — 6 9 ? > 7 c^ c^ , all taken by Mr. H. L. Viereck in New Jersey, 

 as follows : Ocean City, June 19, 1901, i 9 on wild cherry and 2 (^ (J on 

 poison ivy ; Avalon, June 9th, 3 9 9 ; Westville, June 15th, i 9 ; Clem- 

 enton, May 9, 1899, I (^ , June 2, 1901, on sand myrtle, i 9? May 14, 

 1901, on sand myrtle, j (^ , May 17, 1901, 2 (^ ^ ; Mamuskin, May, 10, 

 T903, I (^ . I have also two ^ ^, taken by Rev. Birkmann at Fedor, 

 Texas, April 19, 1902, and March 21, 1904, and a ^ from Anglesea, N. J., 

 May 28, 1905. (E. Daecke.) Probably a species characteristic of the 

 Austroriparian life zone. 



Colletes ptdcher, n. sp. — $ . Length 14 mm. With a general resem- 

 blance to C. thoracicus $ , but very much larger; clypeus coarsely striato- 

 punctate, covered with a dense beard of silky, yellowish white hair, that 

 above clypeus dense, erect and strongly tinged with orange ; vertex with 

 sides depressed, finely, densely punctured, except on a narrow subimpunc- 

 tate spot contiguous to lateral ocelli ; face coarsely punctured ; cheeks with 

 coarse, close, rather indistinct punctures ; malar space striate, two-thirds 

 as long as broad ; antennse heavy, reaching well beyond tegulae ; joint 3 

 one-half as long as four ; thorax sculptured essentially as in thoracicus; 

 pubescence of thorax above bright rusty red, that down sides of metathorax 

 pale orange, that on pleura, legs and below grayish-white ; wings hyaline, 

 well clouded apically, nervures reddish-brown ; spurs yellowish, the outer 

 one finely but very distinctly pectinate; abdomen polished, elongate oval, 

 first segment with small, distinct, well-separated punctures and sparse long 

 grayish pubescence, denser laterally, second and third segments punctured 



