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broadly, ratlicr light yellow. Abdomen shining, very finely 

 punctured, first segment with a little patch of pale hair on 

 each side apical ly ; apex with fuscous hair. 



Hab. Mt. Banahao (" Bho." on labels), Philippine Is. 

 {Baher, 2559). 



Easily known from P. iuf/ala, Ashm. (type examined), by 

 the lateral face-marks, which in tayala are cuneiform, 

 truncate above, not prolonged along eyes. From the female 

 of P. impimctata, Friese, from Java, it is known by the 

 bright yellow markings and the sculpture of the region 

 between the antennse. P.hewitti, Cam., from Borneo, is an 

 AUodape, as Mr. Meade-Waldo lias determined from the 

 type, which is in the British Museum. 



Anthidium bannirif/ense, Coekerell. 



Nevada County, California (Calif. Horticultural Corn- 

 mission) . 



Xenoglossa patricia angustior, Coekerell. 



Fresno, California, Aug. 19 [Calif. Hart. Co/nm.). From 

 the same locality were also sent X. aiigelica, Ck][. (July 19), 

 and Melissodes agilis, Cress. (Aug. 1). 



X. angelica is also sent labelled Orange County, California. 



Bombomelecta fulvida (Crcsson) . 



Flagstaff Hill. Boulder, Colorado ; male at flowers of 

 SeneciO) Sept. 1914' {Coekerell). 



Tetraloniu edivardsii (Cresson). 

 Clareraont, California {Essig). 



Anthophora ignava, Crcsson. 

 Portola, California, March 10, 1913 [E. J. Newcomer). 



Halictis banabraonis, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7 mm. 



Robust, black, with black and pale hair ; head broad ; 

 mandibles red at apex ; elypeus coarsely irregularly punc- 

 tured ; supraclypeal area convex, shining, witli small punc- 

 tures ; head thinly clothed with short glittering pale hair, 

 but upper two-thirds of elypeus and middle of vertex with 



