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slightly sinuate on each side anteriorly, apex of fifth segment clothed with a 

 dense black pubescence, the sides with long white hairs. Length .45 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) Allied to californica, 

 Cress. 



A «i i hophora bomboides. 



Anthophora bomboides, Kirby, Faun. Bor. Am. iv., p. 271. 

 One specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Anthophora abrupta. 



Anthophora abrupta, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 409. 

 Anthophora sponsa, Smith, Brit. Mus. Cat. ii., p. 339. 

 One % specimen. (Boll.) 



Xylocopa virginica. 



Apis virginica, Drury, Exot. Ins. i., p. 9(5, pi. 43, fig. 1. 

 Centris Carolina, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 357. 



Two % 9 specimens. (Heiligbrodt.) 



Xylocopa texana. 



% . — Black; clypeus, spot above, and labrum yellowish-white, vertex clothed 

 with black pubescence, cheeks with, and a tuft between insertion of antennae 

 of pale pubescence; thorax tinged with blue or green, clothed with a short 

 dense pale ochraceous pubescence; tegules aeneous; wings dusky, subviolace- 

 ous, fuscous on apical margins; legs blue or bluish-green, clothed with pale 

 pubescence, posterior pair and tibiae and tarsi of intermediate pair clothed 

 with black pubescence, basal joint of posterior tarsi long, narrow, with a broad 

 deep groove on outer side; abdomen green or blue-green, shining, finely punc- 

 tured, subsericeous, first segment clothed with a short, rather dense pale 

 ochraceous pubescence, two apical segments with rather long black pubescence, 

 more or less mixed with pale ochraceous laterally, sometimes the apical mar- 

 gin of fourth segment is fringed with a short ochraceous pubescence. Length 

 .80— .85 inch. 



9.— Black, the head broad, tinged with blue, clothed with short black pu- 

 bescence, face and clypeus densely punctured, apical margin of the latter de- 

 pressed, tinged with rufous, vertex and cheeks with large sparse punctures, a 

 short, prominent, blunt tubercle between insertion of antennae; thorax tinged 

 with green or blue, clothed with a dense pale ochraceous pubescence, more or 

 less mixed with black around the smooth polished disk of mesothorax ; pleura 

 beneath clothed with black pubescence; wings darker than in % ; pubescence 

 of legs entirely black; abdomen blue-green, polished, sparsely punctured, 

 apex clothed with black pubescence, first segment and sides of apex with pule 

 ochraceous pubescence. Length .80 — .85 inch. 



Five specimens. (Belfrage ; Boll.) Quite distinct from virginica 

 by the blue or green color and by the pale pubescence at apex of ab- 

 domen. In color it approaches nutans, St. Farg., which is otherwise 

 very different. 



