Records of Bees. 3C9 



mandibles 4-cletit:ite, the apical tooth much the largest, tho 

 others Rubequal ; face with coarse black hair, cheeks with 

 quite hmg black hair; vertex with hair mixed black 

 and dull white ; thorax above with dull white hair, with 

 long black hairs intermixed ; pleura and tubercles with 

 black hair ; teguloe with a large ferruginous spot. Wings 

 hyaline, with reddish stains; first r. n. joining second s.ni. 

 about or scarcely 1\ times as far from base us second from 

 apex. Legs black, with black hair, that on inner side of 

 anterior tarsi reddish. Abdomen quite dark, with tints of 

 purple and green, the hind margins of the segments purple; 

 hair on first segment long and pale, except a tuft of black 

 on each side toward base ; hair on remaining segments short 

 and black ; scopa black. 



Resembles (J. nigrifrons, Cresson, but that has 3-dentate 

 mandibles, entirely black tegulae, &c. 



Hah. Ward, Colorado, 9200 ft., at flowers of Senecio, July 

 {W.P.Sf T.n.A. CML). 



Osmia Titusi, Ckll, 



Las Cruces, New Mexico, April 10, at flowers of Dilhyrea 

 Wislizeni ; two females collected by Prof. C. H. T. 

 Townsend. 



New to New Mexico, 



Andrena Iliteij sp. n. 



? . — Length rather more than 11 mm.; anterior wing 

 about 8^ ; width of abdomen 3;^. 



Black, the thorax and first four abdominal segments 

 covered dorsally with bright fox-red hair, exactly as in the 

 European A.fulva, of which it looks like a small example. 

 Cheeks and face below antennae with black hair, front and 

 vertex with dull reddish hair, paler and not so bright as that 

 of thorax ; antennae dark, scape with black hair ; facial foveas 

 very broad, not divergent from eye, dark, but with a pale 

 tint in certain lights; clypeus shining, strongly but not very 

 densely punctured, witli a broad smooth median band ; 

 process of labrum large, truncate, with sloping sides; third 

 antennal joint conspicuously longer than the next two united ; 

 mesothorax dull and granular, minutely punctured ; area of 

 metathorax triangular, dull and granular, small, defined only 

 by an imiiressed line ; hair of lower part of pleura black, of 

 metathorax red, but at sides are long, curled, black hairs ; 

 tegulje dark. Wings dusky, stigma ferruginous, neivures 



