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posteriorly ; legs black, anierior coxa; each with a Io?ig pubescent spine on 

 the inside behind trochanters, anterior and middle knees with a yellow 

 spot, their femora thickened and keel-shaped beneath ; inner spur of hind 

 tibiae finely serrate ; scopa golden-yellowish, more reddish on tarsi, first 

 joint of hind tarsi produced to a free apex reaching tip of second joint ; 

 abdomen coarsely and rather closely punctate, the apical margins of 

 segments 1-4 broadly depressed, shining, somewhat lineolate ; at sides of 

 segment 2 a small, oval, depressed spot ; the part of the segment covered 

 by the preceding segment is finely lineolate and the posterior margin 

 finely punctured ; this covered portion produced at each side of segments 

 2-4 as a finely-punctured triangle with the apex jiosterior ; venter black, 

 apical half of segments closely punctured, scopa yellowish. 



Length ro mm. 



Two specimens collected by the author at West Point, Nebr., Sept. 

 18 and 20, 1903, on Bidens chrysanthemoides. 

 ^ unknown. 



The intense black colour, unrelieved by any pubescence, and the 

 very dark wings, make this a conspicuous insect. Viewed from above, it 

 is all black except the fimbria and scopa on legs. 



The generic name is given on account of the similarity to Protandrena 

 in venation, in facial characters and general characteristics. It has a very 

 different tongue, however. 



In Ashmead's table this would run to Pamirgidce to number 6, but 

 differs from either division under that in having the second submarginal 

 much longer than the first. It is, I consider, a long-tongued Andrenid 

 with but two submarginals, more closely related to Protandrena than any 

 other genus, but the tongue about as in /'(;;/7/;-^v';/«^, which genus, it is inter- 

 esting to note, has similar foveas, and a large species of which would look 

 very similar to Protandrenopsis 9 • From the yellow knees oi fuscipennis 

 9 I should imagine that the ^ has more or less yellow on the face. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief Entomologist of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, delivered at Toronto, on Saturday, November 

 7th, a lecture on "Some International Work with Insects." It was given 

 under the auspices of the Canadian Institute, in the new medical building 

 of the Toronto University, and was the first of a series provided for by a 

 gift from Sir Smdford Fleming. The lectiue attracted much attention, 

 and long reports of it were given in the Toronto daily papers on the 

 Monday following. 



