221: Mr. T. T>. A. OockeveW—PiScriptions and 



Andrena johnsoinana, sp. n. 



$ . — I/Ciigth about 8 mm. 



Conspicuous for its broad, convex, very black, sliining, 

 minutely but very distinctly punctured abdomen, and the 

 shining mesothorax and scutellum, with strong but irregu- 

 larly scattered and sparse punctures. Black, pubescence 

 dull white ; facial quadrangle conspicuously broader than 

 long; clypeus with strong rather close jjunctures; facial 

 foveae with white tomentum, broad, especially above, 

 occupying more than half the distance l)ct\veeu eye and 

 antenna, not departing noticeably from orbital margin, over- 

 liung on each side of antennae by a conspicuous tuft of white 

 hair ; cheeks ordinary ; metathorax dull and rough, the 

 enclosure obscurely defined but very rough and wrinkled ; 

 tegulse nearly black in front and at base, otherwise subhy aline 

 testaceous. Wings clear, iridescent ; stigma and nervures 

 ferruginovis ; second submarginal cell narrow. Legs dark, 

 with dull white hair ; second segment of abdomen at apex 

 much broader than first (breadth of abdomen 3 mm.) ; all 

 the segments very narrowly margined with f ulvo-testaceous ; 

 hair of apex reddish fuscous. 



Hab Johnson Mesa, New Mexico, July 7, 1905 [Anna 

 Gohrnian, no. 1). 



Andrena Wilmatt<2, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 8 mm. 



Black ; thorax above covered with fulvous hair, long and 

 dense and very bright orange-fulvous on scutellum and 

 postscutellum ; runs in Bobertson's table exactly to corni 

 (which is a synonym of conunoda, Smith), except that the 

 abdomen is shining. Hair of i'ace greyish white, the clypeus 

 hairy; process of labrum broadly rounded; clypeus dullish 

 and closely punctured ; flagellum dark ferruginous beneath 

 except at base; third autennal joint at least twice as long 

 as fourth; facial foveee very broad, not departing from 

 orbital margin, their tomentum pale ochreous ; mesothorax 

 dullish, distinctly punctured ; area of metathorax scarcely 

 defined, strongly obliquely plicate basally ; tegulse shining 

 black. Wings yellowish, apical margin broadly dusky ; 

 stigma and nervures ferruginous ; second submarginal cell 

 large, receiving the first recurrent nervure a long distance 

 from the end. Hind tarsi clear red, their tibise largely red; 

 hair of hind tibise and tarsi pale reddish golden. AI)domen 

 shining, minutely but'u.stinctly punctured ; segments 2 to 4 



