4S8 Mr. T. D. A. Uockerell — Descriptions and 



spurs of the same colour ; tegulse light apricot-colour ; 

 apical plate of abdomen red^ rounded, entire ; eyes pale 

 green ; face^ except lower part, covered with brilliant silver- 

 white appressed hair ; clypeus minutely granular-punctate ; 

 labrum dark, obscurely reddish; mandibles red; hair of 

 cheeks and vertex, and thorax above, slightly tinged with 

 ochreous ; mesothorax finely rugose, its hair dense around 

 the margins and in anterior middle, but not forming clean- 

 cut markings ; pleura densely covered with hair ; axillar 

 teeth broadly triangular, rather sharp. Wings dusky along 

 apical margin. Abdomen with broad entire yellowish-white 

 apical hair-bands, the other parts more thinly hairy ; first 

 segment densely hairy, except for a straight median band, 

 the margins of which are very indistinctly defined ; beneath 

 the hair the bases of the segments become more or less 

 reddish, while the apical margins become ivory-white. 



Hub. Santa Fe, New Mexico, Aug. 2, 1912 (Cockerell). 



A pretty little species, best known by the red antennae 

 and ill-defined band on first abdominal segment. These 

 characters will at once separate it from E. beulahensis, Ckll., 

 which is similar in general appearance. There is no distinct 

 spot of pubescence on the anterior part of the mesothorax, 

 such as is found in E. crucis, Ckll. 



Melissodes mizca, Cockerell. 



$ . — Abbott Ranch, Rito de los Frijoles, New Mexico, 

 Aug. 1912 (Cockerell). The specimen differs from the type 

 in having much more black hair on the legs. 



Andrena mellea, Cresaon. 



? .—Abbott Ranch, Rito de los Frijoles, New Mexico, 

 Aug. 1912 (Cockerell). 



Prosopis aposuara, Cockerell. 



(? .— Stradbroke Island, Oct. 2, 1911 [H. Hacker); 

 Queensland Museum, oO. Gilgai, N.S.W., Dec. 1911 

 {Froggatt, 212). 



Meroglossa persulcata, Cockerell. 

 ^ . — Brisbane, April 26, 1911 (Queensland Museum, 67). 



Palceorhiza perviridis (Cockerell) . 

 $ . — Kuranda (F. P. Dodd) ; Queensland Museum, 68. 



