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the dorsuluin, indistinctly reticulate, ncarh- polished and with coarser, longer 
hairs, mctanotmn hairy like the scutel and densely sculptured, tegulae brown- 
ish stramineous, partly polished, wing base j)artly blackish brown, subcosta 
brownish stramineous, stigma yellowish stramineous, rest of veins concolorous 
with the stigma, first recurrent vein received by the second submarginal cell far 
beyond the middle and almost interstitial with the second transverse cubitus, 
nervulus not interstitial but received by the median cell and forming an acute 
angle with the second abscissa of the median vein, membrane with a uniformly 
j^ellowish tinge, legs blackish except for the femora and fore and middle tibiae, 
which are very dark brown, and the tarsi and hind tibiae, which are more or less 
paler brovm than the femora, legs covered with browaiish golden and ochreous 
hairs, scopa nearly typical except for having most of its hairs branched, its hairs 
pale ochreous except at base above where they are darkened, hind metatarsi 
at most apparently as wide as the mid metatarsi; propodeum with its en- 
closure rather poorly defined, shiny and coarsely wrinkled, rest of upper face of 
propodeum wrinkled but much more finety than the enclosure, and covered 
with fine pale ochreous hair, propodeal pleura finely reticulated and loosely 
■^Tinkled, with sparse indistinct shallow punctures, propodeal floccus thin and 
pale ochreous; abdomen with its tergum shiny and nearly polished, the punc- 
tures mostly from four to six j)uncture widths apart on the first tergite, the 
punctures apparently twice or more than twice as close together on the succeed- 
ing tergites, second, third and fourth tergites with an apical, whitish hair band 
that is interrupted in the middle of the second and third, apical edge of first, 
second, third, and fourth tergites with a brownish border, second tergite with 
its elevated portion down the middle : depressed portion :: 14: 9, fifth tergite 
shiny, reticulate, its punctures coarser than on the other tergites and apparently 
as sparse as on the first tergite, pygidium narrowly truncate at apex with a 
broad shallow furrow on each side of an acute-angled, embossed, sculptured 
area, tergum with inconspicuous pale appressed hairs, in addition to the hair 
bands, fimbria dark golden. 
Other locality. — iMoutreal Isl., Quebec. May 21,1904. ( Baker 
No. 4769.) In this specimen the labrarea is larger than in the 
type. 
Andrena (Parandrena) parachalybea new species 
Type. — No. 4054, The Acadenij' of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. Type locality. — Southern California. (H. K. (Morri- 
son.) 
Related to A. [P.) olivacea Viereck. 
Female. — Length 10 mm.; body bluish, mostly covered with whitish hairs; 
head with its facial line : transfacial line :: 59: 76, axial line : temporal line :: 
31:20. malar line : joint 3 of antennae :: 2: 10, ocellocipital line : greatest 
diameter of lateral ocellus :: 3.5: 5.5, elevated portion of malar space nearlj' as 
long as depressed portion, head mostly covered with whitish hairs, front dis- 
tinctly, longitudinally reticulate striate, not elevated into a welt along the 
TR.\NS. AM. ENT, SOC., XLUl. 
