26o H. Friese. 



15. Exomalopsis pubescens Cress. 



1865. Exomalopsis pubescens Cresson, cT, Proc. Entom. Soc. Philadelphia, IV, pag. 192. 



»cf. Piceous, clothed with short ochraceous pubescence, closely and finely punc- 

 tured; face densely clothed with pale glittering pubescence; wings subhyaline, iirides- 

 cent; legs clothed with ochraceous pubescence; abdomen globose, the third and follow- 

 ing Segments with a fascia of dense ochraceous pubescence. 



»cT. Short, robust, piceous-brown, closely and finely punctured, clothed with a 

 short, dense, ochraceous pubescence; face and clypeus with a dense, appressed, pale, 

 glittering pubescence; antennae piceous at base (flagellum broken off). Thorax densely 

 clothed with dark ochraceous pubescence, longer and somewhat whitish on the pleura 

 beneath; disk of mesothorax naked; tegulae yellowish-testaceous. Wings faintly tinged 

 with pale fuscous, iridescent; nervures testaceous. Legs pale brownish, clothed with a 

 rather dense ochraceous pubescence; tips of the tibiae and the tarsi yellowish. Abdomen 

 short, globose, shining, closely, finely and distinctly punctured; base and sides of the 

 first Segment, a slightly oblique line on each side of the second, and a fascia on each of 

 the following segments, covering most of the segments and slightly interrupted on the 

 middle of the third segment, of short, dense, appressed, pale ochraceous pubescence, 

 glittering in certain lights; beneath pale testaceous, shining. Length 2^/2 lines; expanse 

 of wings 5 lines (= 5^/^ Mm. lang). 



»I <S von Cuba (Gundlach). 



»Smaller, and more distinctly punctured and pubescent than the preceding (pul- 

 chella) species, with the abdomen short and globose.« 



16. Exomalopsis penelope Cockll. 



1897. Exomalopsis penelope Cockerell, Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, XXIV, pag. 161. 

 »5. Length 7 mm. Black, shining, sparsely pubescent; vertex shining, impunc- 

 tate; ocelli in a very slight curve; front with suberect grayish white hairs; face with ap- 

 pressed, plumose, white pubescence, conspicuously denser at sides; clypeus with large, 

 not very close punctures, and minute ones in between; mandibles rufous, except at base, 

 short and blunt, simple; cheeks with thin, dull white pubescence; flagellum, except the 

 first Joint, brown beneath; mesothorax strongly punctured, its anterior half with incon- 

 spicuous brownish gray pubescence, its bind half bare; bind margin of prothorax and 

 tubercles with rather dense, dull white pubescence; a band on hindmost half of scu- 

 tellum, and an oval patch on postscutellum of light orange rufous pubescence, very 

 conspicuous; sides of metathorax and pleura with dull white pubescence, finely plumose; 

 tegulae piceous. Wings hyaline, nervures and Stigma ferruginous, costal nervure black; 

 first recurrent nervure joining the second transversocubital; second recurrent joining 

 third submarginal cell at its end. Legs black, with dull white pubescence, small joints 

 of tarsi rufous; basal Joints of tarsi within with orange rufous pubescence, the brush 

 of bind tarsi being ofthe same color; scopa ofhind legs wholly pale, copious, 

 yellowish, or light rufous, its color hardtoseebecause it is filled with orange pollen. 

 Abdomen short and broad, first segment excesivelly shiny, impunctate, base of second 

 with fine, close punctures; base and sides of first segment with thin gray pubescence, 

 second segment with a very broad V of white pubescence on each side; third and fourth 

 apparently fasciate, but the hair-bands visible only at the side, otherwise covered by the 

 retraction ofthe segments; fifth covered with white hairs; venter rather thinly pubescent. 



