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HaVtctoides iiiiillcri Ckll. 
Both sexes were taken by Baker at Clareniont. 
Hcspcrapis iiilididtis sp. n. 
S Length a little over 6 mm.; shining black, with white hair; 
eyes pea-green; mandibles broad, red and notched at end; head 
large and broad; flagellum \'ery obscurely reddish beneath; tegul^ 
piceous in front, testaceous posteriorly; wings hyaline, nervures and 
stigma dusky ferruginous; abdomen with rather thin hair-bands, 
near to H. larre^e Ckll., but mesothorax with very minute regular 
punctures; area of metathorax ilull ami abdomen more shining. 
Easily known from H. nJiv'ur Ckll. by the clearer wings and dark 
antenn.T. 
Habitat: Claremont, California (Raker; Pomona coll. 229). 
Agapnstt'mnii calif niiiinis Crawford. 
Claremont {Baker). A male with the scape all dark; it usually 
has a yellow stripe in this species. J . radiatiis Say was also taken 
bv Baker at Claremont. 
Pannrginus atriceps (Cresson) 
Mountains near Claremont (Raker; Pomona coll. 204). 
Andrena nsminides sp. n. 
Length about 10 mm., robust, very hairy, looking like an 
Osmia; head, thorax and legs black, abdomen olive-green, the sur- 
face minutely granular, not polished or punctate; hair of head and 
thorax white, dullish and faintlv creamy above, very long and 
abundatit, forming an immense white beard over mouth; abdomen 
with erect or sub-erect pale hair, all over the surface but not dense, 
long on the first two segments, apex with pale soot-colored hair; 
legs with pale hair. Head extremely broad, facial quadrangle very 
tiiuch broader than long; malar space very short; cheeks very broad, 
obtusely aneled behind below level of middle of eye; antennre ordi- 
nary, third joint equal in length to next two combined; flagellum 
very obscurely reddish beneath; \crtex dull, only shining on orbital 
margin; mesothorax dull, not punctate, but scutellum anteriorly 
shining; area of metathorax tiull and granular, with long erect hairs 
like the adjacent parts; tegula? piceous; wings dusky on apical mar- 
