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smooth and brilliantly shining posterior truncation of metathorax, 

 etc. 



At the same locality Mr. La Follette took Agapostemon radiatus 

 Say (B 16) and Halicliis fariuosus Smith (B 1, B 11) ; the latter 

 also at Laguna (B 3). Aliso Canyon is about two miles from 

 Laguna Beach. 



The specific name chosen, connecting the species with Pomona 

 College, should in strictness be written pomoud'cUa, but the deriva- 

 tion is ultimately from pomum, and it seems permissible to choose 

 the less cumbersome form. 



