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NEW NORTH AMERICAN BEES 
thick as long or little longer than thick except joint 12 which is distinctly longer 
than thick, antennae very dark brown throughout, mandibles typical, robust, 
worn, black except for the apical half which is dark reddish, palpi nearly typi- 
cal; thorax covered with an abundance of pale ochreous, almost yellow hairs 
which are mostly shorter on the dorsulum wdiere they are as coarse as the hairs 
on the mesopleura, dorsulum mostly polished or nearly so, partly finely reticu- 
lated, punctured like the clypeus but more distinctly so and more closely, 
notauli represented by an impressed line, mesopleura w'ith almost yellow' hairs, 
sculptured somewhat like the dorsulum but not so closely or distinctly punc- 
tured, scutel hairy and sculptured much like the dorsuhun, metanotum hairy, 
its sculpture hidden by its long coarse hairs, tegulae pale browmish stramineous, 
finely sculptured, w'ing base dark brown, subcosta dark browm, stigma pale 
brownish stramineous and concolorous or nearly so wuth the rest of the veins, 
first recurrent vein received by the second submarginal cell in or near the 
middle and nearly as near to the first transverse cubitus as the first transverse 
cubitus is to the stigma on the radial vein, nervukis received by the median cell 
and forming an acute angle with the second abscissa of the median vein, second 
transverse cubitus wanting in the left w’ing and only half developed in the right 
wing, membrane tinged with brown and with a dark brownish cloud at apex 
of the marginal cell and beyond along the anterior edge of the wing, legs dark 
brown except for the tarsi and the hind tibiae w'hich are more or less paler 
brown, legs covered with yellowdsh and golden hairs, scopa tyj)ical, golden and 
concolorous, hind metatarsi at most distinctly narrower than mid metatarsi; 
propodeum wdth its enclosure poorly defined, shining and finely reticulated, 
rest of upper face of propodeum sculptured somewdiat like the mesopleura 
but with smaller punctures, not so shining, and covered wdth finer yellowush 
hair, propodeal pleura nearly polished and with sparse shallow punctures and 
almost hidden by the yellowush floccus; abdomen with its tergum shining, 
punctured and finely reticulated, the punctures mostly from tw'o to four punc- 
ture w'idths apart on the first tergite, the punctures hardly closer on the suc- 
ceeding tergites, first, second, third and fourth tergites wuth a broad apical, 
yellowish hair band w'hich is not interrupted in the middle and which occupies 
all of the depressed margin, apical edge of first, second, third and fourth tergites 
with a pale stramineous border, second tergite wuth its elevated portion down 
the middle ; depressed portion :: 14: 10, fifth tergite shining, reticulate, its 
punctures coarser and not so close together as on the other tergites, pygidium 
nearly planate, partly reddish, nearly pointed at apex, tergum wuth incon- 
spicuous pale appressed hairs in addition to the hair bands except on the first 
and second tergites where in addition there are some nearly erect hairs, fim- 
bria yellowish. 
Andrena (Andrena) coactipostica^ new species 
Type. — No. 4037, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. Tj^pe locality. — Southern California (H. K. Morri- 
son.) 
Pelated to A. (A.) distans Provancher. 
* This specific name was proposed for this species by Prof. \V. M. Davis. 
