SOME ILLINOIS BEES.* 

 Charles Kobertson. 



Andrena hirticeps Sm. 



Andrena hirticeps Smith, Brit, Mus. Cat. Hym. 1 : 116. J>. 1853. 



5. — Black; pubescence black, except on thorax above, on 

 vertex and usually about insertion of antennae, where it is 

 ochraceous; clypeus shining, coarsely punctured, except a 

 median raised line ; process of labrum semicircular ; third 

 joint of antennae about equaling next two joints together, 

 flagellum dull testaceous beneath ; wings f usco-hyaline, apical 

 margins clouded; nervures and stigma fusco-ferruginous, 

 second submarginal cell about as long as third to second recur- 

 rent nervure ; abdomen shining, almost impunctate except on 

 bases of segments, no pubescent fasciae. Length 12-13 mm. 



Carlinville, Illinois; 24 $, 27 ^ specimens, the sexes taken 

 in copula. I have regarded the male as that of A. vidua, 

 and the female as only a variant form. The true A. vicina, 

 I think, does not occur here. The male, which, no doubt, 

 resembles the above, I think will be found to want the black 

 hairs on the head. But for the description of the male, I 

 would say that A» errans is the same as A. hirticeps. 



Andrena viciniformis n. sp. 



$. — Black; head, thorax and femora clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence which is brightest on scutellum, palest beneath, 

 a few blackish hairs about ocelli and on clypeus, floccus pale, 

 tibiae and tarsi with blackish pubescence, the scopae on hind 

 femora and tibiae, however, pale beneath ; clypeus shinin<y, 

 coarsely punctured, a median raised line impunctate ; process 

 of labrum semicircular ; third joint of antennae about equal- 

 ing next two together ; wings f usco-hyaline, nervures fusco- 

 ferruginous, second and third submarginal cells subequal ; 



♦ Presented to The Academy of Science of St. Louis, in abstract, January 

 22, 1900. 



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