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lias a black spot on each sidf^, and usually a more or less 

 distinct median mark ; the tliird sej^ment has a variable 

 transverse black stain or patch; hair long, dull white, black 

 at extreme sides of face ami on vertex ; head large and broad, 

 facial quadrangle much broader than long; facial foveae 

 narrow ; process of hibrum large, broadly truncate; mahir 

 space short but distinct; clypeus convex, ridged, polished, 

 with irregular coarse pimcturos, very few in the apical 

 region ; third antennal joint long and slender ; mesothorax 

 dull and punctured, the posterior middle more shining; 

 scutellinn shining; area of metathorax-dull, not distinctly 

 sculptured or defined; tegulie dark reddish. Wings clear; 

 stigma bright ferruginous. Legs black, inner face of hind 

 basi tarsi with white hair. Fourth abdominal segment with 

 a thick white hair-band, second and tliird with weaker ones ; 

 a])ox with dark chocolate hair; abdomen shining. 



This female resembles that of A. ilercla, Cameron (which 

 has a very different male), but is easily separated by the 

 black legs and antennre, &c. The male ilerda is more like 

 that of A. hipartUa^ Brulle (aittilope, Pdrez). 



Andrena mekmdura, n. n. 



Andrena bipartiia, Lepeletier, 1841 (not Biullt?, 1S40) ; A. lepeletie)-i, 

 Dalla Torre, 1896 (not Lucas, 1846). Algeria. 



I examined a good series in the British Museum. The 

 male abdomen is all black, but the female has the first two 

 segments red. 



Andrena truncatiformis , n. n. 



Andrena trtmcata, P^rez, 1003; not A. truncata, Viereck, 1903, 

 N. Africa. 



Viereck\s paper is in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. for December 

 1902, issued March 20, 1903. I believe it has priority. 



Andrena heteropodo, sp. n. 



? (type). — Length about 10 mm. 



Rather robust, black, with the hind tibise and basitarsi (but 

 not the small joints of tarsi, or the other tibiae and tarsi) light 

 ferruginous ; head and thoiax with white hair, not very 

 dense or long, but abundant and clear white at sides of face ; 

 no tooth or tubercle at base of mandibles ; process of labrum 

 bidentate ; clypeus flattened, dull, with fine punctures, and 

 no smooth median line ; flagellum obscurely brownish 

 beneath ; third antennal joint about 400 microns long, the 



