R-ecords of Bees, 65 



IsepeoJus albopictus, sp. n. 



S . — Length about 8| mm. 



Black, with markings of white tomeutum like those of 

 Epeolus ; mandibles rather feebly bidentate, dark reddish 

 except at base ; labrum black ; face covered with white hair, 

 but clypeus nearly all bare, dull and roughened with very 

 minute punctures ; apex of scape, and the following three 

 joints entirely, red; the remaining part of the flagellum, 

 which is stout, red beneath ; mesothorax dull, with minute 

 close punctures, anteriorly with two triangles of black hair 

 surrounded by white, the anterior lateral corners also covered 

 with white hair ; tubercles red ; upper part of pleura covered 

 with white hair, lower part bare, densely punctured ; scutel- 

 lum bigibbous, red, with black hair at sides ; postscutellum 

 red, with white hair; metathorax black, the area bare -, tegulai 

 reddish. Wings clear, the apical field with dusky stains; 

 stigma well developed, red ; nervures dark fuscous. Knees, 

 anterior and middle tibiae, apex and base of hind tibiae, and 

 all the tarsi red ; anterior tarsi long and slender ; anterior and 

 middle tibise marked with two bars of white on the outer side, 

 hind tibiae with a broad bar or patch on apical half; hind 

 femora swollen ; spurs ferruginous ; first abdominal segment 

 with white hair at base, a spot at each side, and a pair of 

 semicircular marks on hind margin ; second segment with a 

 broadly interrupted band on hind margin, its proximal ends 

 subclavate, its upper lateral margin with a very large bifid 

 process or extension ; third segment ornamented like second, 

 except that the band is obsolete in the subdorsal region, 

 leaving the proximal ends as spots ; fourth segment with a 

 pair of spots ; fifth with two transverse hammer-shaped 

 nmrks; sixth four-spotted; apex red; venter dark brown, 

 witii some white hair-spots. 



Hah. Carcarana, Argentina ; received from Mr. J. C^ 

 Crawford. Collected, 1 believe, by Professor L. Bruner. 



1 believe there are other specimens in the U.S. National 

 Museum. 



GrONOCERAS, gen. nov. 



Large bees allied to Megachile^ with the nesting-habits 

 (cf. Q. comhusta) of Clialicodoma : male with flagellum exca- 

 vated beneath, like a trough ; abdomen with two long spines 

 at apex ; anterior coxre with very long spines ; anterior tarsi 

 pallid, broadened and flattened ; claws bifid at apex : female 

 with mandibles 2- to 4-iientate ; scopa red or red and black ; 

 claws simple. The maxillary palpi are bristly. 



Ann. & Mag. iV. Hist. Ser. 7. Fol. xx. 5 



