March, '05] entomological news. 81 



Three New Bees from the Southwest. 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Anthophora corvicolor n. sp. 



9 — Length 18 mm. — Coal-black, with rather short black pubesence, 

 except that there is a little inconspicuous pallid hair just above clypeus, 

 the hair on hind part of occiput is chocolate-brown (but that on vertex 

 black), that on pleura and legs inclines to a sort of dark purplish brown 

 (the color of some myxomycetes), while that on the outer surface of the 

 hind tibiae and the base of their tarsi is a rather sordid white. The sides 

 of the abdomen are distinctly aeneous, or greenish, as in some species of 

 Andrena, and the hind margins of the abdominal segments are rather 

 narrowly rufous ; the femora are dark reddish, the hind femora brighter. 

 Facial quadrangle broader than long ; clypeus well punctured, the punc- 

 tures of various sizes ; lab rum rugoso-punctate, with a keel on the lower 

 half ; antennae entirely black ; mesothorax minutely roughened and dull, 

 not obviously punctuate ; scutellum with a median longitudinal shining 

 raised line ; upper margin of postscutellum reddish ; tegulae rufo-piceous ; 

 wings only slightly dusky ; pygidial plate of abdomen narrow. 



Hab. — Laurel Canon, California, May, 1893 (Dr. A. David- 

 son.) Quite unlike any other described American Antho- 

 phora ; it looks like an overgrown Eniphoropsis iyifernalis. It 

 is worth while to record that Dr. Davidson has also collected 

 A. gohrmancB Ckll., at L,os Angeles. 



Emphoropsis mnrihirta n. sp. 



(^ — Length about 13 mm. — Similar in appearance to E. Jloridana from 

 Florida, with the pubescence similarly arranged and of the same color ; 

 but differing as follows : 



(1.) The hair of the mesothorax has black hairs intermixed. 



(2.) The clypeus (of about the same shade of pale yellow) has the 

 lateral margins broadly black. The labrum and scape, as in jioridana, 

 are wholly black, but the former is covered with white hair. 



(3.) The lateral face-marks are reduced to a narrow stripe ending in a 

 hood, thus recalling E. miserabilis, but that has the light color of clypeus 

 subtrefoil like. 



(4.) The legs are brown, not black, and their pubescence is white, ex- 

 cept on inner side of tarsi, where it is brown, and on the hind legs, where 

 some black hairs are mixed with the white. 



(5.) The abdomen, beyond the first segment (which is clothed like 

 the scutellum) has the hairs (which are erect) partly black and partly pale, 

 the black ones mostly short ; and the ventral surface has much long white 

 hair. The pygidial plate is surrounded with light hair. 



(6.) The wings are a trifle clearer; the second submarginal cell is 

 large, broader than long. 



