30 Myron Harmon Swenk 
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SPECIMENS EXAMINED—Connecticut: New Haven, 2; New 
Hampshire: Durham, 1; New Jersey: Clementon, 38; New 
Brunswick, 1; New York: Bayville, Long Island, 1; Sea Cliff, 
Long Island, 1; Pennsylvania: Germantown, 4. 
Colletes distinctus Cresson. 
1868. Colletes distincta Cresson, Proceedings of the Boston Society of 
Natural History, xii, p. 167, ¢ (December, 1868); original de- 
scription. 
1879. Colletcs nitidus Smith, New Species of Hymenoptera in the British 
Museum, pp. 1-2, 2 ¢ (August, 1879); original description. 
1895. Colletes distincta Robertson, Transactions of the American En- 
tomological Society, xii, p. 115, 2 (May, 1895); description of 
2; recorded from Florida. 
1896. Colletes distinctus Dalla Torre, Catalogus Hymenopterorum, x, Pp. 
40 (1896). 
1904., Colletes nitida Cockerell, Entomological News, xv, no. 8, p. 276, 2 
(October, 1904); notes on the type in British Museum. 
1905. Colletes distinctus Cockerell, Psyche, xii, p. 87, ¢ (October, 1905) ; 
in table of species. 
2. Length 11 mm. Clypeus shining, convex, coarsely irregularly striate- 
punctate, not at all sulcate. Supraclypeal area closely, coarsely punctured. 
Face with small, close punctures and short, erect, pale pubescence. Vertex 
shining, finely double punctured, its hairs pale, very sparingly mixed with 
black. Cheeks shiny, finely and closely punctured, clothed with short gray- 
ish white pubescence. Malar space about one-half as long as wide. An- 
tennae black with the flagellum brownish beneath, joint 3=4 and longer 
than 2, the proportion being 3:4:4, the flagellar joints as long as broad. 
Prothoracic spine not developed. Mesothorax shiny, anteriorly with coarse, 
very close punctures to about the middle, where they become scattered, 
closest laterally, forming a very large, polished, medially quite impunctate 
* disk. Scutellum anteriorly polished and sparsely punctured, posterior half 
with coarse and rather close punctures. Postscutellum opaque, roughened. 
Superior face of metathorax very well defined, dividing into very large, 
squarish, shining pits. Enclosure funnel-shaped, polished, the bowl con- 
cave and perfectly smooth, surrounding areas shining, minutely reticulate. 
Mesopleura shining, the punctures very large and shallow ‘so that the di- 
viding lines appear as irregularly anastomosing ridges. Thoracic dorsum 
with short, thin, erect, dull gray pubescence, well mixed with black on the 
disk and still more abundantly so on the scutellum, the pubescence of the 
postscutellum and sides of metathorax longer, denser and whitish, that on 
pleura and under surface short and whitish. Tegulae shining blackish. 
Wings slightly clouded, nervures and stigma ferruginous. Legs black, 
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