1865.] 189 



the segments with a dense fringe of black pubescence. Length 6 lines; 

 expanse of wings 10 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. One specimen. 



Melissodes pullata, n. sp. 



Black, more or less tinged with fuscous, especially in % ; hind legs of J densely 

 clothed with fuscous pubescence; abdomen shining; wings subhj'aline ; clypens 

 and labrum of % pale testaceous. 



Female — Black; head and thorax densely clothed with black pube- 

 scence, slightly tinged with fuscous, finely and closely punctured ; cly- 

 peus very densely punctured, the apical margin truncate or slightly 

 concave ; mandibles fringed beneath with long fuscous pubescence ; 

 antennae black, brownish beneath. Thorax : mesothorax sparsely punc- 

 tured, especially on the disk; tegulae shining black. Wings uniformly 

 tinged with pale fuscous, with a faint metallic reflection; nervures fus- 

 cous, arranged as in the preceding species. Legs piceous-black, clothed 

 with blackish pubescence, very long and dense on the posterior pair; 

 tips of tarsi rufo-piceous. Abdomen subdepressed, piceous-black. 

 shining, minutely punctured ; basal segment, the lateral middle of the 

 second, third and fourth segments and the two apical segments, clothed 

 with rather dense, dark fuscous pubescence; beneath piceous-black, the 

 apical margins of the segments with a fringe of dense dark fuscous 

 pubescence. Length 5 lines; expanse of wings 8 lines. 



Male. — Resembles the female, except that the pubescence is entirely 

 dark fuscous, and more sparse on the abdomen and legs ; the clypeus 

 and labrum are yellowish-testaceous, with a dusky spot on each side at 

 base of the former ; the antennae are broken off' near the base. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. 9 ; Dr. J. Gundlach % . Two ? . one 

 £ , specimens. 



Much less robust than M. maura, with the color more or less tinged 

 with fuscous, and not deep black as in that species. 



Genus ANTHOPHORA, Latr. 

 Anthophora atrata, n. sp. 



Black, tinged with fuscous; most of clypeus and labrum, and scape of anten- 

 nae beneath, white; wings subhyaline; legs rufo-fuscous at base; extreme sides 

 of the abdomen more or less tufted with white pubescence. 



Male. — Black; head and thorax clothed with rather short, dense 

 black pubescence, more or less tinged with fuscous in certain lights ; 

 the clypeus except a black line on each side at base, a transverse mark 

 above the clypeus, lower sides of the face, and the labrum except a 

 black spot on each side at base, white ; clypeus large, prominent, sub- 

 triangular, broadly truncate in front; labrum clothed with short pale 



