New and Little Known Bees From 
California 
By T. D. A. Cock.p:rell 
The bees described and listed below are from the Baker collection, 
;uul were kindly transmitted to me by Professor Wm. A. Hilton. 
All are from Claremont or the \icinity. 
Ghissdpcrd'ita gen. nov'. 
Like I'iTilitii Smith in general structLire and appearance, but 
mouth-parts enormously elongated, apparently not retractile, the 
end of the tongue reaching beyond tip of abdomen; maxillary palpi 
6-iointed, slender and \ery short, about 300 microns long; maxillary 
palpi about 1280 microns from base of mouth-parts, the blade ex- 
tending about 3200 beyond the palpi, but the labial palpi not cor- 
respondingly elongated, their ends only about 800 microns beyond 
insertion of maxillary palpi. Head narrow, facial quadrangle con- 
spicuously longer than broad; facial fovea? elongate and deep, end- 
ing below about !c\el of insertion of antenns; b. n. falling far short 
of t. m. ; second s. m. \ery broad (long) but much narrowecl abov'e; 
stigma small and narrow; marginal cell long for the group, broadly 
truncate at end. 
Glossoperdita pelargoides sp. n. 
9 Length about 5 mm.; not very robust; pubescence scanty, 
white; head and thorax blue-green, but the mesothorax only green in 
front, the greater part, as well as the scutellum, black; clypeus and 
supraclypeal area black, sparsely and distinctly punctured; the face 
apparently without light markings, but close inspection shows a 
broad shadowy pallescent band in middle of clypeus, and similar 
triangular pallescent lateral marks, hardly visible; flagellum bright 
ferruginous beneath except basally; front dull; mesothorax shining 
anteriorly, the median groove deep; pleura polished, shining; tuber- 
cles pale reddish, two small pale marks on upper border of pro- 
thorax; legs piceous, hairy, anterior knees and band on tibia pale 
yellowish, middle knees pale reddish; teguls reddish; wings short. 
