THE AiNNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATCFRAL HISTOEY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. 88. APRIL 1915. 



XXX. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LXVI. 

 By T. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado. 



Pasiphae cyanea, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 11 mm., expanse 17'5. 

 Kather robust, shining dark blue, with the knees, tibiae, 

 and tarsi bright ferruginous, with hair of the same colour; 

 scape black, but the rather short and thick flagellum ferru- 

 ginous ; hair of head, thorax, abdomen, and basal part of 

 legs black, but at apex of abdomen, on each side of the 

 apical plate, ferruginous, contrasting with the thick black 

 hair on fifth segment ; region of mouth with red hairs ; 

 head broad, front with long coarse hair ; mandibles simple, 

 truncate ; labrum entire ; clypeus finely punctured, its 

 lower margin black ; fourth and fifth antennal joints very 

 short; mesothorax shining, very finely punctured; scu- 

 tellum with a longitudinal median impression ; area of meta- 

 thorax large, triangular, rough but glistening ; thorax with 

 long hair, but the mesothorax (except anterior border) and 

 scutellum bare, while beneath the wings is a circular bare 

 area, which is blue, contrasting with the more lilac adjacent 

 parts ; tegulcC dark rufous. Wings hyaline, faintly dusky, 

 the nervures and stigma bright amber-colour ; b. n. meeting 

 t.-ni., the latter bent in the middle ; upper side of first 

 discoidal arched ; second s.m. very long, narrowed about 

 iialf above, receiving first r. n. at a distance from base equal 

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