1914] The Bee Genus Celioxys. 151 
Coelioxys texana Cresson. 
For comparison with C. huntert camera lucida drawings of 
the last ventral segment and of antennal joints 2-5 of the 
female are given. (Fig. 1). 
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Fig. 1. C. texana Cress. (a) Last ventral segment 
(b) antennal joints 2-5 of female. 
In the antenne, the third joint is shown to be hardly longer 
than the second (exclusive of bulbous base) and the fourth is 
distinctly longer than the third. 
Ceelioxys hunteri new species. 
Female. Length about 13-15 mm. Black, with red legs; the scape 
and pedicel, tubercles, carinate lateral edges of pronotum and tegule, 
reddish; lateral margins of basal abdominal segments sometimes ob- 
scurely reddish; face rather finely rugoso-punctate with a median 
impunctate line from in front of anterior ocellus to base of clypeus and 
indistinctly indicated on clypeus; anterior ocellus enclosed by two 
cresent-shaped raised impunctate areas which are finely reticulate; 
upper inner orbits each with a similar sculptured spot; face with rather 
abundant white hair, thicker along inner orbits and around antenne; 
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Fig. 2. C. hunteri Cwfd. (a) Last ventral segment 
(b) antennal joints 2-5 of female. 
second joint of antenna (not counting bulbous base) much shorter than 
third, the third about as long as fourth; (See Fig. 2, b); vertex and 
mesoscutum with large rather sparse punctures, each with an appressed 
