384 E. T. CRESSON. 



nse entirely fulvous, darker above; mesothorax fulvous, the incisures 

 and a longitudinal black line on the disk, abbreviated posteriorly, black, 

 a faint line on each side of the disk and the lateral margins, yellow ; 

 prothorax faintly tinged with fulvous^ its posterior margin yellow; me- 

 tathorax with a deep central, longitudinal channel ; tegulae with a me- 

 dian, fulvous dot; wings varied with fuliginous, darker along the costa, 

 a bright violaceous reflection, base of both wings, a narrow, longitudi- 

 nal streak through the middle of the wing, and most of the second sub- 

 marginal cell, subhyaline ; stigma, costal vein from the stigma to the 

 base and the nervures at the base of the wing, fulvous, the rest black ; 

 legs faintly tinged with fulvous at base and on the tarsi ; abdomen 

 bright lemon-yellow, not longer than head and thorax, subsericeous, a 

 central longitudinal streak posteriorly, a spot at base of first segment, 

 a narrow line across its middle, slight stains on each side of first and 

 second segments at base, a transverse spot on each side near the apex 

 of the second to fifth segments connected by a slender arcuated line 

 (both above and beneath), fulvous ; basal segment triangular, its apical 

 breadth equal to its length. Length 9 lines. 



One 9 specimen. 

 29. Andrena mellea, n. sp. 



Female. — Honey-yellow, clothed with pale appressed pubescence, 

 especially dense at the sides of the face, on the legs and apical margins 

 of abdominal segments ; head black, the clypeus, spot above, mandibles 

 at base and stains on the cheeks, honey-yellow ; clypeus sparsely punc- 

 tured, its anterior margin subarcuate ; antenuic short, blackish at tips; 

 thorax closely punctured, mesothorax longitudinally impressed anteri- 

 orly ; metathorax truncate behind and stained with blackish down the 

 posterior middle, the sides and the pleura entirely, black; wings fsuco- 

 hyaline, subviolaceous, the costa broadly fuscous, nervures brown, stig- 

 ma and costal nerve honey-yellow; third submarginal cell much longer 

 than the second, narrowed for one-half its length toward the marginal 

 and receiving the second recurrent nervure near the apex ; legs en- 

 tirely honey-yellow, the tibia) and tarsi densely clothed with yellow pu- 

 bescence ; abdomen large, ovate, depressed, densely and finely punc- 

 tured, the apical margin of the second, and the following segments en- 

 tirely, more dense on their apical margins, densely clothed with pale 

 yellowish, appressed pubescence; the first and rest of second segment 

 without pubescence (probably denuded) ; a narrow, sub-basal, blackish 

 fascia on the second and two following segments, the base of the first 

 segment, and middle of apical segment, black ; venter entirely honey- 

 yellow. Length 6 lines. One 9 specimen. 



