394 entomological news. [Nov., '07 



Type in the collection of the Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Penna. 

 Type locality, Clemen ton, N. J. 



The seven examples of this species before me were taken at 

 type locality May 24, 1902, by my friend, Mr. J. Chester Brad- 

 ley, in whose honor the species is named. Most, if not all of 

 the specimens cited, have three submarginal cells in one or 

 both wings in the sdme way as in the type, though in some 

 specimens the forking takes place nearer the middle than the 

 base of the nervure ; the sculpture and color in the paratypes 

 is practically the same as in the type. 



Perdita novae-angliae n. sp. 



9 , $ . — In structure, sculpture and size almost the same as 

 bradleyi ; in color it differs very markedly from this and its 

 only ally in the Alleghanian Zone — namely octomaculata. 



According to Ashmead's "Classification of the Bees," this 

 is an atypical Macroteropsis , differing in having the head longer 

 than broad at least in the 9 and in the labial palpi of the 9 

 and S , having the first joint as long as or shorter than the 

 succeeding joints combined. 



9.— Lower half of face is somewhat more polished and very sparsely 

 punctate, with very indistinct setigerous punctures that become discern- 

 ible only under a high power lens ; e. g., one that magnifies 15-20 diam- 

 eters. The rest of the head shining, with more conspicuous and numer- 

 ous setigerous punctures. Thorax in structure of tegument very like the 

 upper half of the face, with the exception of the enclosed space of the 

 metathorax, which looks bare and is apparently impunctate. Abdomen 

 mostly appearing bare, the apical half of the venter and the fimbria 

 being rather closely pubescent. All hair whitish ; both wings hare three 

 submarginal cells on account of the forking of the first transverse cubitus' 

 which takes place between its junction with the radius and its middle. 

 Color : Head and thorax mostly metallic *greenish, the lower half of the 

 face and somewhat more, in fact, the highly polished portion of the face, 

 is blackish except for a brownish tinge along the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus and a yellow mark on each side of the face near the junction of 

 the eye and mandible, a yellow longitudinal band on the clypeus and 

 mostly brown mandibles that are yellowish at base ; wings practically 

 colorless, the stigma and nervures, with the exception of the subcostal 

 nervure which is brown, are slightly tinted with testaceous. The abdo- 

 men is mostly blackish, with the extreme apex brownish and the margin 

 of the penultimate dorsal segment whitish testaceous. The second and 

 third dorsal abdominal segments with a widely interrupted yellow band. 



