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the head and the details of the markings. There is a strong superficial 

 resemblance to the male of Euryglossina perpusilla. 



Pachyprosopis barbata, new species. 



Male : Length about 4 mm. ; shining black, with very little hair, ex- 

 cept that the whole face below antennae (the tegument of which is black) 

 is covered with coarse pale dull ochreous hair ; mandibles red subapically ; 

 flagellum very dull red beneath ; front rather strongly punctured ; meso- 

 thoreix sparsely punctured ; tegulae fuscous with pallid margins ; wings 

 hyaline, faintly dusky apically, stigma and nervures brown, nervures partly 

 pallid ; first r. n. meeting first t. c. ; second s. m. broad, but pointed 

 above, not of the extreme type of typical Pachyprosopis; legs bright 

 ferruginous, the femora black beneath, the emterior femora blackest ; 

 abdomen broad, shining black, light ferruginous at apex. 



Habitat : Brisbane, November 19, 1913 (Hacker ; Queensland Mus., 

 98, 99). Resembles P. aurantipes in the hairy face, but the legs and 

 mandibles are quite differently colored. The abdomen is rather sugges- 

 tive of P. flavicauda. 



A NEW CARPENTER BEE FROM CALIFORNIA 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL 



I have received through Mr. S. A. Rohwer both sexes of a very fine 

 X^locopa bred by Mr. H. E. Burke in the mountains of California. 

 Mr. Rohwer had already made a preliminary study of the species, and 

 had determined that it was probably new, unless described from Mexico. 

 It proves to be a quite distinct species, related to X. calif ornica Cresson 

 and X. arizonensis Cresson, closely related forms, apparently only sub- 

 specifically distinct, already known to occur in California. X. amblardi 

 Perez, described from three males collected in California, remains unknown 

 to me. It is related to X. virginica Drury, and has a yellow face in the 

 male. For references to other, quite different, California species see Bull. 

 So. Calif. Ac. Sci., III. June, 1904, pp. 86-87. 



Xylocopa libocedri, new species. 



Male : Length about 22 mm., of anterior wing 1 9 mm. ; head rather 

 small, closely punctured, black, obscurely purplish at sides of face, the 

 supraclypeal area green ; eyes prominent, separated on vertex by a dis- 



