480 HYMENOPTERA OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO 



PROTERIADES subgenus ACROSMIA Michener 



Transferred with component forms from genus Hoplitis Klug, Catalog, 

 p. 1159 and Sup. 1, p. 238. 



PROTERIADES subgenus HOPLITINA Cockerell 



Transferred with component forms from genus Hoplitis Klug, Catalog, 

 p. 1157 and Sup. 1, p. 238. 



ANTHOCOPA subgenus EREMOSMIA Michener, p. 116i 



hurdiana Michener. Transf. to subg. Isosmia Michener and Sokal {teste 

 Michener and Sokal, 1957. Evolution 11: 159). 



rubrella Michener. Transf. to subg. Isosmia Michener and Sokal (teste 

 Michener and Sokal, 1957. Evolution 11: 159). 



*ANTHOCOPA subgenus ISOSMIA Michener and Sokal 



Anthocopa subg. Isosmia Michener and Sokal, 1957. Evolution 11: 159. 



Type: Anthocopa (Phaeosmia) rubrella Michener. Orig. de- 

 sig. 



Insert after subg. Eremosmia, p. 1161. 



hurdiana Michener. Transf. from subg. Eremosmia Michener. 



rubrella Michener. Transf. from subg. Eremosmia Michener. 



Genus DICERATOSMIA Robertson, p. 1162 



Transfer to genus Osmia Panzer as a subgenus (teste Sinha, 1958. 

 Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. 39: 212). In citation of original description of Dicera- 

 tosmia change Ent. Soc. Amer. Trans, to Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 



Genus OSMIA Panzer, pp. 1163-1172 



Taxonomy: Sinha, 1958. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. 39: 211-261, 151 figs, 

 (reclassification of New World subgenera). 



OSMIA subgenus OSMIA Panzer, p. 1163 



lignaria lignaria Say. Nests in abandoned mud-dauber cells, carpenter bee 

 tunnels and borings in wood. Visits vernal flowers of a number of 

 families. 

 Biology: Rau, 1937. Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 30: 324-342, 1 pi.— Chandler, 

 1959 (1958). Ind. Acad. Sci. Proc. 68: 199-204.— Balduf, 1961. 

 Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 56: 83-84.— Krombein, 1962. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. Proc. 75: 239-242, pi. 1.— Chandler, 1962. Ent. Soc. Amer., 

 North Central Branch Proc. 16: 18-19. 



OSMIA subg. CHALCOSMIA Schmiedeknecht, pp. 1163-1164 



chalybea Smith. On flowers of Ceanothus, Cirsium and Vaccinium. 



coerulescens (Linnaeus). N. S. to Minn, south to N. C. and 111. On flowers of 

 Philadelphus, Salvia, Trifolium and Vicia. 



georgica Cresson. Mass. to Mich., south to Ga. and Tex. On flowers of many 

 families, principally Compositae and Rosaceae. 



texana Cresson. Mich., N. Y., Fla. Nests in abandoned cells of AnthopJiora 

 occidentalis Cr. in clay bank. 

 Biology: Hobbs, Nummi and Virostek, 1961. Canad. Ent. 93: 143. 



OSMIA subgenus CEPHALOSMIA Sladen, p. 1164 

 subaustralis subaustralis Cockerell. ? Mich. 



OSMIA subgenus CENTROSMIA Robertson 

 (=:Osmia subg. Me/anosmia Schmiedeknecht, pp. 1164—1165) 



Revision : Sinha and Michener, 1958. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. 39 : 275-303. 



