AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 291 



mixed with black on the vertex ; face and clypeus closely punctured ; 

 mandibles black, polished, fulvous before apes, beneath with a fringe 

 of long whitish pubescence ; thorax and first segment of abdomen above, 

 clothed with a short and very dense yellowish pubescence, the pleura 

 with less dense ochraceous pubescence; wings subhyaline, apical mar- 

 gin broadly dusky ; legs black, outer side of tibiae clothed with ochra- 

 ceous pubescence, base of claws fulvous; apex of abdominal segments 

 above, with a more or less distinct band of very short, pale ochraceous 

 pile, more obvious in certain lights; tip of fifth segment with dense 

 black pubescence; extreme sides of apical segments with whitish pubes- 

 cence, also tufts of same on sides of apical ventral segments. Length 

 62 — 7 lines. 



Habitat. — Colorado, (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc, collected by Mr. James 

 Ridings). 



6. Anthophora floridana. 



Anthopliora floridana. Smith, Brit. Mas. Cat. Hym. ii, p. 3.j9, % 9 . 

 Zfoi.— "Florida" (Smith); Penn. Ills. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 9 ). 



7. Anthophora abrupta. 



Anthojihora abrupta, Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist, i, p. 409. '^ . 

 Anthophora sponsa, Smith, Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. ii, p. 339. 9- 



^ai.— Mass., W. Va., Ills. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). The basal seg- 

 ment of abdomen is sometimes entirely black. 



8. Anthophora ursina, n. sp. 



% . — Kobust, black; sides of face, vertex, cheeks, thorax, anterior 

 femora beneath, and base of abdomen, clothed with a rather dense, long 

 whitish pubescence; remainder of abdomen shining, with very short 

 black pubescence ; apex of clypeus, a triangular mark on each side, 

 labrum, except two dots at base, and the scape in front, lemon-yellow; 

 remainder of antennae black ; wings hyaline ; middle joints of tarsi ful- 

 vous; intermediate tarsi long and slender, ciliated with long fulvous 

 pubescence, base of first joint and the terminal joint black, the latter 

 ciliated laterally with black pubescence, as in % of Walshii ; basal joint 

 of posterior tarsi long and simple. Length 6f lines. 



Ilab. — West Virginia. (Ridings, Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) A very 

 distinct species. 



9. Anthophora bomhoides. 



Ant/iop/iora bomboides, Kirby, Faun. Bor. Am, iv, p. 271, % . 



Hub. — Mass., Conn., Pcnn., W. Va. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc). In the 

 9 , the pubescence of the head, except a slight mixture of pale hairs, 

 and also a spot on the disk of the thorax, is black; the first and second 

 abdominal segments always, and sometimes more or less of the third 



