Records of Bees. 421 



hair ; dark brown hair on sides of thorax more extensive; 

 second and third abdominal segments with a thin transverse 

 band of greyish tomeutum, not conspicuous. 



Type (male) from the Federal District, Mexico (J. R. 

 Inda, 56). U.S. Nat. Museum. Female from Oaxaca, 

 Mexico, Sept. 18 (L. O. Howard). 



Related to X. assimilis (Smith), but without the black 

 patch of hair on thorax above in female. The male antenna} 

 are formed as in X. pruinosa (Say). The species belongs 

 to the subgenus Peponapis of Robertson, though differing 

 from his type-species in the black clypeus of male and 

 reduction of pale hair on female abdomen. 



Allodape Candida, Smith. 



$ . — Mkonumbi, near Lamu, Tana River, E. Africa, 

 Sept. 1892 (Chanler Exped.). 



This differs slightly from Smith's description, and from a 

 specimen from Abyssinia, sent by Grribodo, in that the light 

 band on clypeus is not at all widened at the lower end. 



Leptergatis globulifera, sp. n. 



<J . — Length 6-6'5.mm. 



Black, with the long flagellum dull ferruginous beneath, 

 tegulse rufo-piceous, legs more or less suffused with reddish, 

 the tarsi and tibise at apex ferruginous. 



Close to L. armata (Smith), differing thus : scape dark ; 

 ocelli closer together ; clypeus and labrum entirely black, 

 mandibles mainly dark reddish ; tegulse darker ; abdominal 

 hair-bands less distinct; wings a little more dusky. The 

 hind legs are practically as in L. armata. The co-type has 

 the mandibles paler, with a large pale yellowish spot, beyond 

 which they are ferruginous. 



Venezuela ; type from Aroa, Dec. 12, 1910 (M. A. 

 Carriker). U.S. Nat. Museum. Another is from Lagunita 

 de Aroa, 2000 ft. alt. (M. A. Carriker). 



Prosopis holomelcena, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 6 mm., anterior wing 4'5. 



Entirely black, without light markings; robust, with no 

 depression between first and second dorsal abdominal seg- 

 ments ; clypeus long, dull, the punctures very indistinct ; 

 apical part of flagellum bright ferruginous beneath ; punc- 

 tures of mesothorax and scutellum excessively minute, the 



