Records of Bees. 73 



Aathopkorula compaclula^ Ckll. 



Brownsville, Texas, June, 2 c{ , 3 ? (/'"• /-/. Snow). New 

 to Texas. 



All of tlicse liavc only two submar^iual eells, apparently 

 indicating that this is, after all, the noraiaJ eoiulition of the 

 species. The eyes ot" the female are of a beautiful deep 

 sea-greeu (bluish-green) colour. 



Exomalopsis Snowi, sp. n, 



c?.— Length about 7h mm. 



Black, with coarse pale fulvous pubescence ; clypeus black ; 

 labrum dull yellowish white ; mandibles mainly rufous ; 

 autennie ferruginous, the llagelluni subfuscous above, wntli 

 the sutures darker; teguUe large, shining, translucent 

 apricot-colour. Wings hyaline, slightly yellowish, the apex 

 broadly dusky; the large stigma and the nervures ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen rather pointed for an Exumalupsis, 

 having the sides and apex of the first segment and base of 

 the second broadly ferruginous ; no distinct hair-bands on 

 abdomen, but much long coarse hair. Legs bright ferru- 

 ginous, the long plumose hair on hind tarsi behind largely 

 blackened ; hair of legs otherwise very pale fulvous. Labial 

 palpi with first joint more than twice length of second ; 

 maxillary palpi loug and slender. Face densely covered 

 with silky pale fulvous hair; eyes daa'k sea-green; meso- 

 thorax very shiny, with strong punctures except in the 

 middle, where it is impunctate; second siibmarginal cell 

 variable, narrow and much narrowed above, or comparatively 

 broad, receiving the first r. n. very near the apex, or not 

 much beyond the middle ; b. n. meeting t.-m., or passing a 

 short distance basad of it. 



Huns in Friese's table (1899) to 6, and runs out because 

 of the red legs &c. 



Hah. Brownsville, Texas, June, 3 S (F. H. Snow). 



Xenoglossa pruinosa Umitaris, subsp. n, 



(5* . — Clypeus without any yellow spot ; hair of head 

 cinereous, with black hairi sparsely intermixed on face and 

 vertex ; hair of thorax above pale, with only a slight fulvous 

 tint. Legs red, more or less clouded with blackish ; abdomen 

 very black and shiny, with the usual bands much reduced. 



Looks like a distinct species, but I find no structural 

 differences from pruinosa. 



Hak Brownsville, Texas, June {F. H. Snow). 

 Ann. {J& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. )'o/. xviii. (i 



