1906] 
LOVELL AXD COCKERELI^BEES OF SOUTH ERX MAIXE 
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M. manipularis Smith, but that species has the light hair of the thorax differently 
colored. All specimens of the female were taken on Solidago from August 3rd to 
August 2f)th. The male specimens were collected from July 23rd to August 13th 
on Epilohium angusiifolium, Inula helenium, and Solidago. 
Melis.'sodes simillima Roht. 
1S97 Melis.s-odes .simillima Robt. $ c?, Trans. Ac. Scl. St. Louis, 7:355. 
This species is distinguished from M. illata by its larger size, broad abdomen, 
black fascia on segment four, and red apices of mandibles. M. .simillima is close to 
M . pcrplc.ra, but the female differs from cotype of perplexa by the ocherous tint of 
the pubescence of thorax, the black hair of middle of face and lower part of pleura, 
and the color of the hair on fourth abdominal segment. Typical pcrple.ra is from 
Georgia. Collected on Solidago and Carduus arvensis from August 7th to September 
3rd. 
Melissodes apicata n. sp. 
9 . — Length 10 mm. A robust species with white pubescence. This species 
iliffers from illata, simillima and perple.ra in having the white abdominal fasciae 
of fine toinentum apical instead of median, that on the second segment failing in the 
middle. Facial quadrangle broader than long; clypeus bare, closely and conflu- 
ently punctured; labrum clothed with pale ferruginous hairs; mandibles rufous 
at tips; antennae dark with flagellum faintly reddish beneath. Alesothorax with 
strong punctures on a very shiny ground; hair of disc of mesothorax black, separated 
from tegulae by a narrow strip of white. Wings strongly dusky, tegulae black. 
Scopa of hind legs white; hair on inner side of basal joint of hind tarsi nigrofuscous; 
hair on inner side of middle tibiae largely dark. The abdomen is without metallic 
tints; abdominal segments 2-4 with white apical fasciae, interrupted on 2; the two 
apical segments with black hair. 
The abdomen and hind legs are very suggestive of those of Teiralonia artuo.sa 
Cress., although the abdomen is not nearly so rugose as in that species, and the 
color of the apical hair and the sculpturing of the mesothorax is entirely different. 
One specimen on the flowers of Ponfederia cordafa, July 21, 1904. 
