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NEW NORTH AMERICAN BEES 
vein, legs dark brown except for the mid and hind tarsi and hind tibiae which 
are more or less yellowish stramineous, legs covered with pale golden or whit- 
ish hairs, scopa typical, its hairs of a golden hue, and concolorous throughout, 
with the hairs at base above slightly darkened, hind metatarsi at most ap- 
parently a little wider than mid metatarsi; propodeum with its enclosure 
well defined by a trenchant carina, shiny and with coarse crooked rugae on 
each side of a median longitudinal carina, rest of upper face of propodeum 
sculptured somewhat like the enclosure Init not so coarsely, and covered with 
whitish hair, propodeal pleura with a few shallow finely reticulate excavations on 
their posterior half, sparsely punctured and finely reticulated on their anterior 
half, not hidden by the whitish floccus; abdomen with its tergum polished or 
nearly so, punctured, the pimctures clear cut but small, from two to many 
puncture widths apart on the first tergite, from one to three or four puncture 
W'idths apart on the elevated portion of the second, third and fourth tergites 
where the punctures are not so close together as on the depressed portions, 
second tergite with its elevated portion down the middle : depressed portion 
:: 12: 9, fifth tergite shiny, reticulate, with its punctures from adjoining to 
four puncture wudths apart, pygidium browuiish, planate, rounded at apex, 
tergum with inconspicuous pale hairs, second, third and fourth tergites with 
an apical whitish hair band that is broadly interrupted on the second and third, 
fimbria golden. 
Other locality.- — Beltsville, Maryland. June 14, 1914. (W. 
L. McAtee.) 
Andrena (Scrapter) neonana new species 
Type. — No. 4062, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. Type locality. — Georgia. (H. K. Morrison.) 
Related to A. (A.) personata Robertson, but placed in the sub- 
genus Scrapter because of the antennae. 
Female. — Length 6.5 mm.; body black, mostly covered with pale ochreous 
almost white hairs; head with its facial line : transfacial line :: 38: 46, axial 
line : temporal line :: 20: 11, elevated portion of malar space nearly as long as 
depressed portion, malar line : joint 3 of antennae :: 1:4, ocelloccipital line : 
greatest diameter of lateral ocellus :: 2.5 : 3.5, head cov'ered with whitish hairs, 
front rather indistinctly, longitudinally striate, not elevated into a welt along 
the fovea, fovea at most : ocellocular line :: 5:8, foveal band represented at 
upper end of the inner eye margin by a beveled bare margin, distance between 
fovea and ocelh : ocellocular line :: 3: 8, fovea nearly parallel-sided throughout 
and continued below to a plane apparently a little below the antennal line, 
fovea filled with pale ochreous hairs, fovarea wanting, vertex and temples 
along the upper edge of the eye wdth pale ochreous hairs, face nearly polished, 
partly indistinctly reticulate, with indistinct punctures that are as many as 
five or more puncture widths apart, clypeus distinctly elevated above the apical 
margin, convex, sculptured like the face except that the punctures are larger 
and well defined, clypearea present but poorly defined, clypeus thinly hairy, 
