ZXZ E. T. CRESSON. 



the incrassate legs, the posterior pair of which in % have the pube- 

 scence nearly as long and dense as in the 9 of a true Melissodes. 



Melissodes ? clensa, n. sp. 



% .—Differs from the preceding species only by the pubescence being of a 

 pale ochraceous color, and that on abdomen less dense. Length .45 inch. 



Five specimens. (Belfrage.) It may be that these will prove to 

 be merely faded specimens of ursina, although the color is very differ- 

 ent and constant in each species. 



Melissodes? marginella, n. sp. 



% 9 • — Robust, black ; head clothed with a dense fulvo-ochraceous pubes- 

 cence, pale on cheeks and slightly mixed with black on vertex and occiput; 

 mandibles narrow, piceous; antennae alike short in both sexes, the flagellum 

 brownish beneath; mesothorax, postseutellum, metathorax and sides of pleura 

 immediately beneath wings clothed with short dense cinereous pubescence 

 slightly tinged with ochraceous anteriorly; an arcuate line of black pubescence 

 extending from tubercles, arouud in front of tegulse, to lateral middle of meso- 

 thorax where it is broad or dilated ; postseutellum and pleura beneath also 

 clothed with black pubescence; tegulse piceous; wings subhyaline, neuration 

 as usual in Melissodes ; legs clothed with sooty pubescence, pale on anterior 

 pair, long on posterior tibiae and base of tarsi of J , posterior femora and tibia? 

 of % incrassate, tips of tarsi pale ferruginous; abdomen short, broad, clothed 

 with a very short black pubescence, that 011 base and sides of first segment 

 pale, that on apical margins of segments 2 — 4 of 9 and 2 — 6 of % narrowly 

 and evenly ochraceous, apex of J with longer black pubescence, the disk of 

 apical segment narrow and obtusely pointed at apex. Length .45 — .50 inch. 



Eight specimens collected in Comal Co. This species in congeneric 

 and closely allied to the Anthophnra taurea of Say, from which it is 

 distinguished by the pubescence of the head being fulvo-ochraceous 

 instead of cinereous, and by the narrow apical bands of the abdomen 

 being ochraceous instead of white; the thorax of the two species are 

 similarly ornamented. Marginella is also found in Mexico. 



Anthophora Smithii. 



Anthophora Smithii, Cress. Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. ii., p. 290. 



Two $ specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Anthophora texana, n. sp. 



. — Black; sides of face and cheeks clothed with long dense whits pubes- 

 cence, that or vertex and occiput ochraceous, slightly mixed with black about 

 ocelli; clypeus closely punctured, with a smooth central ridge; mandibles yel- 

 lowish toward apex; thorax clothed with a long dense pubescence, that on 

 mesothorax and scutellum ochraceous and slightly mixed with black, that on 

 metathorax and pleura white; tegulse testaceous; wings short, hyaline ; legs 

 brown, clothed with whitish pubescence, tarsi testaceous, claws black ; abdo- 

 men bro.id ovate, thinly clothed with a pale pubescence, long and dense on 

 sides of first segment, apical margins of segments 1 — 4 rather narrowly white, 



