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connected or entirely absent, lateral face-marks as high as insertion of 

 antennae, mandibles basally, spots on prothorax and scape in front, knees, 

 line on front of anterior and intermediate tibise ; bands on segments 1-4 

 slightly yellowish, interrupted, sometimes widely, that on 5 reduced to 

 two dots or absent ; nervures somewhat darker tlian in (^ ; pygidium red ; 

 abdomen black ; legs black, tarsi dark. 



Length, 8 to 85^ mm. Type locality, West Point, Nebr. 



Seven females with supraclypeal marks ;.five females without ; eight 

 males ; all on Grmdelia sqtiarrosa. Sexes taken in copula. 



This is ? Bni?ieri " larger than usual " of Professor Cockerell in 

 the £ntom., XXXIV, 190, July, 1901. Brutieri $ is smaller, has the 

 supraclypeal mark always present and square {Cocker elli usually has it, 

 but only as two spots, or these partly connected, never entire) ; abdomen 

 black, markings with no yellow tinge ; Brtineri $ is easily distinguished 

 by the face being yellow for some distance above antennae ; hind legs 

 with no yellow. The female runs in Cockerell's Tables of New Alexico 

 Bees to verbesince when without supraclypeal mark ; with it to affinis ? 

 van; the male runs out of the table at 28 when counting nervures pallid, 

 and when dark at 32. 



Neopasites Robertsofti, n. sp. — 9 . Black, dull, coarsely and closely 

 punctured, face above antennae, mesothorax, scutellum and post-scutellum 

 above, appearing reddish-brown from short fine silky hairs ; face below 

 antenna?, line on proihorax, median and parapsidal grooves anteriorly, 

 most of mesopleura, posterior angles of mesothorax, edges of scutellar lobes, 

 edges of post-scutellum, sides of metathorax and coxae with while appressed 

 scale-like pubescence ; clypeus anteriorly, mandibles, tibiae and tarsi light 

 reddish ; antennae beneath and tubercles slightly darker ; tegulae largely 

 reddish ; scutellum deeply bilobate ; wings dusky, nervures and stigma 

 dark ; second submarginal narrowed fully two-thirds to marginal ; femora 

 dark ; apical margins of abdominal segments reddish, inclining to golden ; 

 segment i with two large spots of appressed v/hite pubescence on disc 

 connected anteriorly with two small spots on the lateral margins ; segments 

 2-5 with four small almost equidistant spots of similar hair, the outer 

 ones being on the lateral margins of the segments ; apical segment trun- 

 cate ; ventral segments with the apical margins reddish. 



Length about 4}^ mm. Lincoln, Nebr., Aug. 27, 1902; on Solidago. 



S , — Similar to ? ; legs more testaceous ; first recurrent nervure 

 received well before the base of the 2nd submarginal cell, not at base as 



