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nearly planate, not so shiny or so distinctly punctured as the face, not especially 
elevated directly above the apical margin, clypearea wanting, sculpture of the 
clypeus virtually hidden b}' the moustache, dullish, finely reticulated and with 
adjoining punctures, labrarea broadly truncate, polished, its width at base : 
greatest length :: 13: 5, width at apex : length down the middle :: 8: 5, labrarea 
impressed and at base nearly as wide as the labrum, the latter with a fringe of 
golden hairs, joint 3 of antennae : 4: : 9: 8, joint 4 with its length : thickness :: 
6: 7, joints 5-7 approximately one and one-half times as long as thick, dullish, 
flagel almost straight in outline, antennae presumably blackish throughout, 
mandibles nearly typical, rather slender, apparently extending a little beyond 
the outer edge of the labrum, black except for the apex and inner margin which 
are dull dark reddish, palpi nearly typical; thorax covered with an abundance 
of whitish hairs, hairs of dorsulum seemingly a little shorter than hair of meso- 
pleura and with an ochreous tinge, dorsulum dulhsh, finely reticulated and not 
appreciably punctured, notauli represented by a dullish line, mesopleiwa 
dullish with whitish hairs throughout, finely reticulated and with ill-defined 
punctures that are mostly three or more puncture widths apart, scutel hairy and 
sculptured like the dorsulum, metanotum hairy and sculptured apparently like 
the dorsulum, tegulae dark brown, polished, wing base mostly blackish and 
dark brown, subcosta blackish, stigma yellowing stramineous with a blackish 
tinge, first recurrent vein received by the second submarginal cell a little before 
the middle and a little farther from the first transverse cubitus than the first 
transverse cubitus is from the stigma on the radial vein, nervulus ahnost exactly 
interstitial, forming an acute angle with the first abscissa of the discoidal 
vein, veins dull brownish stramineous, membrane uniformly tinged with browm, 
legs blackish excepting the tarsi and hind tibiae which are rtrther blackish 
brown, legs covered with whitish and golden hairs, hind metatarsi at most 
hardly wider than mid metatarsi and nearly half as wide as hind tibiae at apex 
of the latter; propodeum with its enclosure rather well defined, with irregular 
rugae on basal half, finely reticulated on apical half, rounded off at apex, rest 
of upper face sculptured somewhat like the mesopleura, propodeal pleura 
sculptured, partly, apparently like the mesopleura, the sculpture nearly hidden 
by the uniformly distributed whitish hairs; abdomen with its tergurn shiny, 
blackish browm, almost polished, finely reticulated and indistinctly punctured, 
the punctures mostly three or four puncture widths apart, first tergite with 
erect whitish hairs, second tergite with appressed whitish hairs, second tergite 
with its elevated portion down the middle : depressed portion :: 20: 6, third and 
following tergites with brownish appressed hairs on the elevated portion, ter- 
gites with a pale brownish stramineous margin, anal process narrow, almost 
parallel sided and irregularly truncate at apex, tergurn with rather inconspicu- 
ous hairs that are supplemented on the sides of the third and following tergites 
by thin golden apical hair bands, hair af apex of abdomen seal brown. 
Andrena (Andrena) fuscisignata new species 
Tyjpe. — No. 4071, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. Type locality. — Orono, Maine (No. 32). 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XLIII. 
