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has a black spot on each side, and usually’a more or less 
distinct median mark; the third segment has a variable 
transverse black stain or patch; hair long, dull white, black 
at extreme sides of face and on vertex ; head large and broad, 
fatial quadrangle much broader than long; facial foves 
narrow ; process of labrum large, broadly truncate; malar 
space short but distinct; clypeus convex, ridged, polished, 
with irregular coarse punctures, very few in the apical 
region ; third antennal joint long and slender ; mesothorax 
dull and punctured, the posterior middle more shining; 
scutellum shining; area of metathorax dull, not distinctly 
sculptured or defined; tegulee dark reddish. Wings clear; 
stigma bright ferruginous. Legs black, inner face of hind 
basitarsi with white hair. Fourth abdominal segment with 
a thick white hair-band, second and third with weaker ones ; 
apex with dark chocolate hair ; abdomen shining. ; 
This female resembles that of A. dlerda, Cameron (which 
has a very different male), but is easily separated by the 
black legs and antennze, &e. The male ilerda is more like 
that of A. bepartita, Brullé (antilope, Pérez). 
Andrena melandura, n. n. 
Andrena bipartiia, Lepeletier, 1841 (not Brullé, 1840); A. lepeletier, 
Dalla Torre, 1896 (not Lucas, 1846). Algeria. 
I examined a good series in the British Museum. The 
male abdomen is all black, but the female has the first two 
segments red. 
Andrena truncatiformis, n. n. 
Andrena truncata, Pérez, 1903; not A. truncata, Viereck, 1903. 
N. Africa. 
Viereck’s paper is in Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. for December 
1902, issued March 20, 1903. I believe it has priority. 
Andrena heteropoda, sp. n. 
2 (type). —Length about 10 mm. 
Rather robust, black, with the hind tibize and basitarsi (but 
not the small joints of tarsi, or the other tibize and tarsi) light 
ferruginous ; head and thorax with white hair, not very 
dense or long, but abundant and clear white at sides of face ; 
no tooth or tubercle at base of mandibles ; process of labrum 
bidentate ; clypeus flattened, dull, with fine punctures, and 
no smooth median line; flagellum obscurely brownish 
beneath ; third antennal joint about 400 microns long, the 
