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Andrena niiserabilis, n. sp. 



9- — Black; head not broader than thorax; face, occiput and cheeks 

 clothed vvith long yellow ochreous pubescence; clypeus large, shining, almost 

 naked, sparsely punctured, disk impunctured ; flagelluin brown beneath; tho- 

 rax thickly clothed with a long yellow ochreous pubescence, not quite hiding 

 the surface of mesothorax and scutellum; tegulse dull testaceous; wings yel- 

 lowish-hyaline, iridescent, faintly dusky at tips, nervures and stigma honey- 

 yellow; legs black or piceous, clothed with ochraceous pubescence, tarsi paler ; 

 abdomen oblong-ovate, depressed, shining, extremely minutely punctured, 

 base and sides of first segment, apical margin of all the segments clothed with 

 an ochraceous pubescence, anal fimbria of same color. Length .32 inch. 



%. — Smaller, more slender; clvpeus with a long dense pale ochraceous pu- 

 bescence, that on head and thorax longer than in 9; antennae long ; base of 

 metathorax coarsely reticulated ; anterior tarsi rufo-testaceous, four posterior 

 tarsi pale honey-yellow, and sometimes also the posterior tibiae; abdomen more 

 convex than in J. Length .30 inch. 



Eight specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Audrena bipuiiotata, n, sp. 



"J,. — Black; head slightly broader than thorax, face, occiput and cheeks 

 with long griseous jjubescence; clypeus broad, whitish, smooth and shining, 

 with a small black spot on each side, apex fringed with long pale pubescence ; 

 mandibles piceous at tips; Hagellum testaceous beneath ; thorax clothed with 

 a long, not dense, griseous pubescence; base of metathorax with a few short 

 radiating elevated lines; tegulse piceous; wings hyaline, iridescent, faintly 

 <iusky at apex, nervures and stigma honey-yellow; legs black or piceous, with 

 pale pubescence, tarsi subtestaceous at apex : abdomen elongate, shining, with 

 a short scattered pale pubescence, apical margin of the segments narrowly pale 

 testaceous, apex with long pale pubescence. Length .35 inch. 



Two specimens. (Belfrage.) Easily recognized by the broad white 

 clypeus with two conspicuous black dots. 



APIDiE. 



Panurgiis a^tliiops, n. sp. 



9- — Robust, deep black; head not broader than thorax, closely and 

 coarsely punctured, finer and more dense on face and clypeus, which have a 

 scattered yellowish pubescence, as well as cheeks and posterior margin of 

 head; clypeus not produced ; mandibles piceous; antennae short, black ; meso- 

 thorax shining, with large sparse punctures, those on scutellum and pleura 

 closer and coarser, those on postscutellum dense and confluent; mesothorax 

 deeply impressed on anterior middle; metathorax rounded very densely and 

 rather finely punctured, basal depressed margin narrow, with short crenulated 

 striae, behind which on each side is a smooth shining space; tegulae dull testa- 

 ceous; wings uniformly dark fuliginous, with subliyaline blotches at tip of 

 second submarginal cell and beneath; legs black, tibice and tarsi brownish, 

 the latter paler, densely clothed with yellow pubescence, long on posterior pair, 

 extreme base of four anterior tibiae with a pale yellow spot; abdomen broad 

 ovale, depressed, closely and finely punctured, ajjical margin of the segments 



