36 NEOTROPICAL BEES 



HOLMBERGIAPIS new name 



Scirtetica Holmberg, 1903 (not Saussure, 1884). Type Holmbergiapis antarcm 

 tica (Scirtetica antarctica Holmberg). Brethes regards this as part of 

 Tetralonia, but it is at least a valid subgenus. 



TELEUTEMNESTA Holmberg 



T. fruciifera Holmberg, the first species, is herewith designated 

 as the type. 



Diadasia callura new species 



Female Length, 8 to 9.5 mm.; black, with the small joints of tarsi fer- 

 ruginous; head and thorax with white hair, short on thorax above; mandibles 

 with a subobsolete inner tooth; maxillary palpi sLx-jointed, joints three and 

 four with long lateral hair-fringes, joints quite broad and of about equal width; 

 blade of maxilla neither hairy nor suddenly narrowed apically; paraglossae 

 much shorter than first joint of labial palpi; clypeus shining, strongly punc- 

 tured, but with a smooth median band; flagellum short and thick, dusky 

 reddish beneath; mesothorax shining, strongly punctured; tegulae black; 

 wings slightly dusky; second submarginal cell narrowed above, receiving 

 first recurrent nervure beyond middle; basal nervure meeting transverso- 

 median; outer side of tibiae and tarsi with pale yellowish hair, the scape of 

 hind legs entirely pale, on inner side of basitarsi ferruginous; hind spur very 

 long, pale testaceous, not hooked at end; first abdominal segment with white 

 hair, the apical margin broadly pallid; segments two to four very broadly 

 covered apically with felt-like bright ochreous hair, its limits not sharply de- 

 fined, the bases of segments appearing dark, but with short erect hair; apex 

 covered with fulvous hair, no dark patch. 



Carcaraiia, Argentina (Briiner 53, 51). In Friese's table of 

 Argentine species this runs to nigriceps Friese = distmcta Holm- 

 berg, but it is ciuite distinct f lom this, and from other species more 

 recently described, especially by the white hair of thorax. The 

 feet hav^e well-developed piil villi, and the hind wings have the 

 Diadasia venation. 



The following ke}^ will facilitate the separation of the above 

 Anthophoridae. They are from Carcarana unless the contrary 

 is stated. 

 Black species, without conspicuous pale hair, or it is confined to very limited 



areas 1 



Species not appearing prevailingly black, the light or reddish hair conspicu- 

 ous 5 



1. Male; clj'peus dark. (Mexico) Melissodes albocollaris Cockerell 



Females 2 



