Records of Bees. 425 



small notch for tlie foveal spot on each side ; cheeks with 

 the lower thrce-t'ourths entirely yellow ; pleura yellow, 

 except its broad upper margin ; abdomen much darker, 

 with successively narrower yellow bauds on a dark brown 

 ground ; anterior and middle tibiae each with a brown stripe, 

 and there may be a small brown mark at apex of middle 

 femora. 



Hab. Idyllwild, San Jacinto Mts., California, abundant at 

 flowers of Adenostoma fasciculatum, July 14, 1912 [P. H. 

 Timberlake, 1). 



The plant is Rosaceous, but the bee is related to the 

 species occurring on flowers of Compositae. 



Halictus ovaliceps, Cockerell. 



Whittier, California, April 16, 1913, 2 ? ; one at flowers 

 of Rubus vitifulius, collecting cream-coloured pollen ; one at 

 flowers of PhaceUa hispida, collecting light blue pollen 

 (P. H. Timberlake, 5). 



Nomada harimensis', sp. n. 



S • — Length 7 mm. 



Head and thorax black, densely rugoso-punctate, with 

 thin white hair, which is greyish white dorsally, but pure 

 Mhite on checks, middle of face, and underside of thorax ; 

 liead broad ; mandibles simple, red excei)t basally; clypeus 

 all black, but lower corners of face shining yellow ; antennae 

 long and thick ; scape swollen, black ; flagellum black, 

 bright ferruginous beneath except the last three joints ; 

 third autennal joint much shorter than fourth ; tubercles 

 and tegulfe ferruginous, thorax otherwise black ; scutellum 

 not very prominent. Wings clear, with the apical margin 

 brown ; stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous ; b. n. going a 

 sjjort distance basad of t.-m. ; first r. n. joining middle of 

 second s.m. Legs ferruginous, black basally ; femora black 

 except apex and aljout apical tW'O-thirds above ; tibiae with 

 a black patch behind ; anterior coxse with a red apical spot, 

 but not spined. Abdomen shining, without evident punc- 

 tures ; first segment piceous, with a curved, bilobed, trans- 

 verse red band on disc ; second and third segments broadly 

 piceous apically, otherwise yellow except in middle, where 

 they are ferruginous ; fourth segment similar, except that 

 the yellow is reduced and the apical margin is ferruginous ; 

 apex ferruginous, the apical plate broad and entire; venter 

 only slightly marked with yellow. 



