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mesopleura, dorsulum polished, sparsely punctured, the punctures minute and 
from three to five or more puncture widths apart, mostly the latter, notauli 
represented by a linear elevation of the tegument, mesopleura polished, with 
black hairs throughout, with distinct punctures that are from adjoining to 
three puncture widths apart, scutel hairy and sculptured much like the dor- 
sulum, except that a discal area on each side of the middle line is nearly bare 
and nearly sculptureless, metanotum with white hair, shiny and sparsely 
punctured, tegulae brovmish stramineous, polished, wing base mostly dark 
brownish stramineous, subcosta blackish brown, stigma dark brown with a 
blackish browm margin, first recurrent vein received by the second submarginal 
cell in or a little beyond the middle and distinctly farther from the second trans- 
verse cubitus than the first transverse cubitus is from the stigma on the radial 
vein, nervulus interstitial, forming an acute angle with the first abscissa of the 
discoidal vein, membrane tinged with browm, the radial cell contrastingly with 
a dark brown cloud, legs blackish brown excepting the middle and hind femora 
which are reddish browui, legs covered wuth whitish and brownish hairs, hind 
metatarsi at most hardly wider than middle metatarsi and nearly half as wude as 
hind tibiae at apex of the latter; propodeum with its enclosure poorly de- 
fined, with irregular concentric nearly transverse striae at base, elsewhere 
nearly polished, rounded off at apex, rest of upper face sculptured somewhat 
like the mesopleura but with smaller sparser punctures and covered with white 
hair, propodeal pleura along the upper edge sculptured apparently like the 
mesopleura, elsewhere impunctate and feebly reticulated, the sculpture not 
hidden by the uniformly distributed wiiite hairs; abdomen with its tergum 
polished, sparsely minutely punctured, the punctures from two to many punc- 
ture widths apart, first and second tergites with erect whitish hairs, third, 
fourth and fifth tergites with sub-appressed blackish hairs, second tergite wuth 
its elevated portion down the middle : depressed portion 11: 6, apical edge 
of tergites pale stramineous, anal process broadly truncate at apex, tergum 
with rather inconspicuous hairs, that are supplemented on the apical margin 
of the first, second, third and fourth tergites by distinct whitish hair bands, 
hair at apex of abdomen of a browmish hue. 
Andrena (Scrapter) imitatrix var. profunda new' variety 
1909. Andrena texana profunda Viereck in Pierce, Rev. Strepsiptera, p. 195. 
Type. — No. 4064, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. Type locality. — Fedor, Lee County, Texas. March 
22, 1905. (G. Birkmann.) Also February 18, 1898. (G. Birk- 
mann.) 
Related to A. {S.) imitatrix var. texana Cresson, from which it differs in the 
fulvoas or ochreous pubescence. 
Other localities. — Georgia (H. K. Morrison); North Carolina 
(H. K. Morrison); Texas (Belfrage); N. Illinois (Nason); Colo- 
rado City, Colorado, May 10, at flowers of Prunus (W. P. & 
T. D. A. Cockerell). 
