Records of Bees. I0o 



antennae and eyes. seen from above very pale yellowish, not 

 widely separated from eye, extending downwards to about 



level of top of clypeus ; third antenna! joint nearly as iong 

 as the following three together; disc of clypena Bhining, 



sparsely punctured, marginal parts dullish and more closely 

 and finely punctured ; malar space linear ; process of labrum 

 strongly bifid ; tongue remarkably short; mesothorax micro- 

 scopically tesscllate, dull, with sparse very feeble punctures; 

 area of metathorax triangular, granular ; tegulae rufo- 

 testaeeous. Wings hyaline, with a very faint brownish tinge, 

 the nervures and small stigma ferruginous ; second s.m. 

 broad, receiving first r. n. at middle or beyond. Legs with 

 pale hair, light orange-ferruginous on inner side of basitarsi ; 

 small joints of tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen dull, with ex- 

 cessively minute punctures; hind margins of segments with 

 very broad heavy entire ochreous-whitish hair-bands; caudal 

 fringe pale reddish. 



Hub. Pecos, New Mexico, August 31 {Cockerel!) . 



Kesembles A. grcenicheri^ Ckll., and. A. mentzelia, Ckll., 

 especially the former, from which it differs by the bifid 

 process of labrum and the heavily banded, abdomen. 



HypantMdium punamense , sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 7^ mm. 



Kobust ; head and thorax black and bright chrome-yellow, 

 with the dorsal pubescence orange-fulvous ; abdomen and 

 legs clear ferruginous and yellow, without black ; head and 

 thorax above very densely punctured ; punctures of meso- 

 plenra very large, posteriorly there is a smooth shining 

 impunctate area ; head yellow, with the following parts 

 black: occiput and posterior part of checks, labrum, large 

 quadrate frontal patch enclosing the ocelli and sending a 

 band on each side to top of eye, having also three bands pro- 

 jecting from its lower border, one to each antenna, and one 

 to middle of supraclypeal area, a spot at each lower corner 

 of tupraclypeal area; clypeus entirely yellow, except the 

 ferruginous anterior edge; mandibles broad, with only 

 two small teeth, cutting-edge black, behind this sutfusedly 

 reddish, and basal part of mandibles yellow ; malar space 

 obsolete; antennas clear ferruginous, the scape yellow in 

 front ; thorax black, with the following parts yellow : large 

 patch occupying nearly all mesoph ura, large part of tuberch Sj 

 rather narrow anterior (except in middle) and lateral borders 

 ot mesol borax (but no discal sf ripes \, axillae and the broad hind 

 margin of the prominent, shallowly emarginate BCUtellum : 

 base of metathorax with a series of large deep pit» ; tegulae 



