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4 and 5 probably thicker than long, the succeeding joints probably as thick as 
long or little longer than thick except perhaps joints 11 and 12 which are 
probably distinctly longer than thick, antennae probably blackish throughout, 
mandibles typical, robust, extending to the outer edge of the labrarea, black 
except for the apical half which is mostly dark reddish, palpi nearly typical) 
thorax covered with an abundance of whitish hairs which are much shorter 
on the dorsulum than the almost whitish hairs on the mesopleura, dorsulum 
dullish, finely reticulated and punctured like the face, notauli represented by 
an impressed line, mesopleura with whitish hairs, sculptured somewhat like 
the dorsulum but not so distinctly, scutel hairy and sculptured much like the 
dorsulum but more shiny, metanotum mostly finely rugulose, dullish, tegulae 
dark brown, polished, wing base partly blackish brown, subcosta blackish 
brown, stigma pale yellowish stramineous, rest of veins dull stramineous, with 
a blackish tinge, first recurrent vein received by the second submarginal cell a 
little before the middle and apparently one and one-half times as far from the 
first transverse cubitus as the first transverse cubitus is from the stigma on the 
radial vein, nervulus almost exactly interstitial and forming an acute angle 
with the first abscissa of the discoidal vein, membrane uniformly tinged with 
brown, legs blackish brown throughout , legs covered with brownish golden and 
whitish hairs, scopa typical, its hairs mostly silvery, hairs at base above de- 
cidedly darkened, hind metatarsi at most apparently a little narrower than mid 
metatarsi; propodeum with its enclosure poorly defined, dullish and finely 
reticulated, with short ill defined ridges at extreme base, rest of upper face of 
propodeum sculptured somewhat like the mesopleura and covered with pale 
whitish hair, propodeal pleura finely reticulated, with sparse shallow punctures, 
floccus whitish; abdomen with its tergum shiny, finely reticulated and indis- 
tinctly punctured, the punctures from two to six or more puncture widths 
apart on the first tergite, the punctures somewhat closer on the succeeding 
tergites, second, third and fourth tergites with a thin, apical, whitish hair 
band that is broadly interrupted in the middle of the second and third tergites, 
first, second, third and fourth tergites with the depressed margin brownish 
edged with pale stramineous, second tergite with its elevated portion down the 
middle : depressed portion ;; 11: 7, fifth tergite shiny, reticulate, its punctures 
coarser than on the other tergites, pygidium nearly planate, with a sliallow 
furrow on each side, truncate at apex, brownish, tergum with inconspicuous 
pale hairs, in addition to the hair bands, fimbria pale golden. 
Andrena (Andrena) barbarica^ new species 
Type. — No. 4065, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. Type locality. — Tazewell, Virginia, June 10, 1915. 
(L. 0. Jackson.) 
Related to A. (A.) integi'a Smith. 
Female. Length 9 mm.; body black, mostly covered with pale ochreous 
almost white hairs, head with its facial line : transfacial line :: 52:63, a.xial 
line : temporal line :: 27: 16, malar line : joint 3 of antennae :: 1:8, ocelloc- 
3 This is Prof. W. :\I. Davis’ name for this species. 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XLIII. 
