444 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ Déc., 52 
New Records of Bees (Hymen.). 
By T. D. A. CocKkerELt, Boulder, Colorado. 
Xylocopa orpifex Smith. 
Knight’s Valley, California. British Museum (506—84, 73.) 
Xylocopa arizonensis Cresson. 
Lake County, California; both sexes (O. T. Baron). Brit. 
Museum. 
Alcidamea simplex (Cresson). 
Trenton Falls, New York (E. Doubleday) ; from F. Smith’s 
collection; two males, Brit. Museum. 
Hypanthidium aureocinctum sp. n. 
2 Length a little over 7 mm., moderately robust; head and thorax 
densely punctured, black, marked with yellow; clypeus, mandibles (ex- 
cept apical margin), malar space, cheeks, a broad band across hind 
part of vertex (continuous with yellow of cheeks), broad bands at 
sides of face (extending to top of eyes), and a large U-shaped mark 
between antenne, all chrome yellow; region between antenne some- 
what elevated; black of front extending downward to top of clypeus 
as a narrow band on each side; scape and base of flagellum light 
orange-ferruginous; rest of flagellum also ferruginous, but more 
dusky; occiput black; prothorax black, but tubercles tipped with yel- 
low; pleura mainly yellow; mesothorax with a narrow yellow (reddish- 
tinted) margin on each side and in front, except about the middle fifth 
in front, where the bands are connected with narrow stripes extending 
backward over the mesothorax; scutellum projecting, emarginate in 
middle, the apical margin, with the axillz, broadly chrome yellow; 
metathorax black, dull, the base with a series of pits; hair of head and 
thorax pale yellowish, scanty; tegule dull orange, ferruginous in mid- 
dle; wings dusky, strongly so in costal region; second r. n. going 
well beyond second s. m.; legs yellow, the femora and tibie marked 
with ferruginous; no pulvilli; abdomen strongly punctured, the punc- 
tures large on the basal half of the segments, small and dense on the 
apical part; the segments black at base, broadly ferruginous at apex, 
each with a very broad entire chrome yellow band, which is not notch- 
ed sub-laterally or in the middle; on the first segment the band bends 
sharply at its ends, sending a short process along the sides; the fifth 
and sixth segments appear all yellow, except that the fifth is obscurely 
ferruginous apically, and the sixth has a subapical dark interrupted 
band; ventral scopa yellowish-white. 
