September 1899.] 



PSYCHE. 



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Described fnnn a single iiKile in tlie 

 Herbert H. Smith collection, taken at 

 Chapada, Biazil, in January. 



Protalebra brasilietifis ii.sp. — Length 2.75 

 mm. Face elongate, vertex shorter than 

 pronotum and tumidly angnhite. Color 

 sordid yellow. Vertex witli three dark dots 

 on basal margin. Pronotum and scutel dark 

 fuscous; the former witli three minute h'ght 

 dots anteriorly and four larger in a transverse 

 row behind; scutel with a slender median 

 line and a dot on either side light. Elytra 

 with large lemon yellow areas as follows: 

 one at base, one at middle of corium, and a 

 common commissural area resting on apex 

 of clavus; the basal area is just before basal 

 margin and extends from costa to brachial 

 cell; both are diagonal, extending up and 

 back. The interspace between these areas is 

 dark smoky, becoming lighter apically, the 

 lips hyaline. The dark interspace with hya- 



line spots, which are particularly noticeable 

 just Ijeyond transverse veinlets. 



Described from many specimens in 

 the Herbert l\. Sinith collection, taken 

 at Chapada and Corumba, Brazil, from 

 January to April. Tiiis species has 

 somewhat of a resemblance in the char- 

 acter of the markings to certain Typh- 

 locyljas of the comes group. 

 Protalebra curvilinca (Gill.) 

 Protalebra bifasciata (Gill.) 

 Protalebra trimaculata (Gill.) 

 Protalebra robjista (Gill.) 

 These four species described under 

 Alebra by Gillette, belong in Protalebra, 

 of which genus curviltiiea may be taken 

 as the type. The types of all the 

 species discussed above are now in the 

 National Museum. 



SOME CALIFORNIA BEES. 



BY CAKROLL I'OWLER, DUARTE, CAL. 



IIERIADES Spinola. 



One specimen belonging to this genus has 

 been collected at Berkeley, and it represents 

 a new species. The only other species re- 

 corded from this State is H. albicinctuni 

 Pror. from Los Angeles. 



Heriades glaucum n . sp. — $ . Length 5.5 

 nun. Bluish-green, clothed with thin white 

 pubescence. Head broader than thorax, 

 dark green, finely punctured, clothed with 

 long white pubescence, dense on clypeus 

 and cheeks ; mandibles black. Antennae 

 brownish-black, reaching to the base of the 

 abdomen. Tliorax dark bluisli-green, finely 

 and densely punctured, clothed with long 

 pubescence, denser on metathorax and pleu- 



ra. Wings with a brownish tinge darker 

 in marginal cell ; second submarginal cell a 

 little longer than the first, narrowed nearly 

 one half toward the marginal and receiving 

 the first recurrent vein one fourth its length 

 from base and the second one fifth from tip. 

 Legs dark green, clothed with tliin white 

 pubescence, on tarsi beneath yellow; tibial 

 spurs and claws brownish. Abdomen dark 

 bronze-green with bluish reflection in certain 

 lights; densely punctured, narrow apical 

 margins of the segments smooth and pale 

 brown; the whole clothed with a very short 

 thin white pubescence longer and denser on 

 the apical segments and venter. 



Habitat. Berkeley, Cal. May i. One 

 specimen. 



