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Two specimens from Bosque and Comal Counties. This has much 

 the appearance of an Anthidium, but the 9 venter is only sparsely 

 pubescent. 



Stelis lateralis. 



Steiis lateralis, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, ii., p. 410. 



Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Melecta intermipta, n. sp. 



9 • — Large, very robust, black, densly and finely punctured ; the face about 

 insertion of antennae and posterior margin of occiput, the later interrupted 

 medially by black, clothed with long ochraceous pubescence; anterior half of 

 mesothorax, except two black patches on anterior middle, sides of metathorax 

 and upper half of pleura clothed with a dense ochraceous pubescence, re- 

 mainder of mesothorax and scutellum nude, the latter depressed on posterior 

 middle, with a short obtuse tubercle on each side; a small smooth polished 

 spot on each side of the disk of mesothorax opposite tegulae; wings dark fus- 

 cous, with two hyaline spots at tips of third marginal and discoidal cells and 

 subhyaline streaks in the cells; legs black, the coxae, knees and tibiae with 

 more or less whitish pubescence; abdomen robust, convex, velvety- black, im- 

 punctured, each segment with a broad apical band of dense appressed pale 

 ochraceous pubescence, broadly interrupted medially, especially on apical seg- 

 ments, and dilated laterally. Length .55 inch. 



%. — Smaller, less robust; a tuft of ochraceous pubescence at base of clypeus ; 

 antennae not longer than in 9 but much more robust, being unusually thick- 

 ened; the two patches on anterior middle of mesothorax sometimes obsolete : 

 legs brown-black, the outer side of intermediate tibiae covered with a short 

 dense ochraceous pile; abdomen as in 9> except that the bands are more con- 

 fluent laterally. Length .45 inch. 



Two specimens from Dallas and Comal Counties. 



Melissodes atripes, n. sp. 



9- — Large, robust, deep black; face, clypeus and cheeks clothed with a 

 dense ochraceous pubescence, the occiput with a long yellow pubescence; tips 

 of mandibles fulvous ; flagellum beneath brown ; thorax above and triangular 

 patch beneath tegulae clothed with a short very dense yellow pubescence, 

 longer and paler on metathorax, remainder of pleura clothed with a dense jet- 

 black pubescence; tegulae testaceous; wings uniformly dark fuliginous, darker 

 along costa; legs entirely black, with jet-black pubescence ; abdomen shining, 

 basal half of first segment and narrow basal margin of second segment clothed 

 with a short appressed ochraceous pubescence; on each side of third segment 

 an oblique line of white pubescence; sides of the fourth and the two apical 

 segments clothed with a jet-black pubescence; disk of apical segment broad, 

 rounded at apex, covered with a golden pile, sides reflexed. Length .75 inch. 

 One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) 



Melissodes obliqua. 



Macrocera obliqua, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 403. 

 Seven % 9 specimens. (Belfrage ; Boll; Heiligbrodt.) 



