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apex densely covered with brownish-black hair, but there is a tuft 
of light hair on each side beneath. 
Habitat: Claremont, California (Baker; Pomona coll. 148). 
This looks like Anthophorula bruneri Crawf., but is at once separ- 
ated by the roughened disc of first abdominal segment, the black 
hair at end of abdomen, and the minute dark stigma; there is evi- 
dently no real affinity. 
Melissodes pygmea Cresson, from the description, is apparently 
an Anthophorula or Exomalopsis,; indeed the description might well 
apply to 4. bruneri. 
E. velutinus and E. melanurus are not typical Exomalopsis. The 
genus as at present understood contains some rather diverse ele- 
ments. 
Bombomelecta maculata (Viereck) 
Viereck described this as a variety of B. separata, but it seems 
to be a distinct species. A female from Claremont (Baker; Po- 
mona coll. 162), has the spots on third and fourth segments quite 
large and quadrate, and there are small spots on the fifth. 
Coelioxys megatricha sp. n. 
é Length about 11 mm.; black, with bright ferruginous legs 
(the femora dusky beneath) and rather dark red tegulz; no red on 
abdomen, above or below; mandibles dark red subapically; face 
and front densely covered with long white hair; antenne black, third 
joint distinctly longer than fourth; vertex with very large punctures, 
which laterad of the ocelli are distinctly separated, leaving inter- 
spaces equal to the size of punctures; eyes pea-green, with very long 
hair; mesothorax and scutellum densely and very strongly punctured, 
middle of mesothorax with little longitudinal ridges; scutellum 
rounded behind, teeth at sides long, finger-like, slightly incurved; 
pleura and metathorax covered with long shaggy white hair; anterior 
coxe with strong spines; anterior trochanters and femora with much 
white hair beneath; spurs red; wings clear, the apical margin broadly 
dusky; abdomen with white hair-bands at apices of segments; dor- 
sum and sides of first segment closely punctured; second and third 
segments with very deep transverse impressions, and strongly punc- 
tured, the ridge just behind the impression with sparse punctures; 
