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orbital margin, cream color. Hair of head and thorax long and shaggy, 

 very pale ocherous; facial quadrangle broader than long; mandibles 

 red at apex; process of labrum feebly emarginate. Antennae thick, 

 flagellum obscurely reddish beneath. Third antennal joint about 

 one-third longer than fourth, which is somewhat swollen; fifth a 

 little longer than fourth. Clypeus and sides of face shining, with 

 distinct and well separated punctures ; sides of front rather shining, 

 coarsely striate ; vertex granular, narrow. Cheeks normal, very hairy. 

 Mesothorax and scutellum shining, with small punctures; area of 

 metathorax coarsely granular. Tegulae shining rufopiceous. 



Wings hyaline, broadly dusky at apex; stigma and nervures amber 

 color. Basal nervure falling short of transverse median. Second 

 submarginal cell narrowed above, receiving first recurrent nervure 

 about the end of its first third. Hair on inner side of tarsi bright 

 orange. Abdomen shining, finely punctured; second segment in 

 middle depressed much less than one-third. Dorsal surface of abdo- 

 men hoary with short thin pale hair which becomes longer and denser 

 at sides, but does not form any distinct bands. Hairs at sides of 

 abdomen beneath orange tinted. Apical plate very small and narrow. 



6 26 . Hair of thorax above white. 



ANDRENA LARAMIENSIS, variety A. 



War Bonnet Canyon, Sioux County, Nebraska. May 27, 1901. 

 (M. A. Carriker.) 



Male. — Length, 9 mm. Head black with the front dark blue. 

 Thorax black, legs brown-black, the tarsi red at apex. Abdomen 

 steel blue, the hind margins of the segments purplish red; clypeus, 

 except two black spots and lower edge and subtriangular lateral 

 marks not quite reaching eyes, light yellow. Head broad, eyes diverg- 

 ing above; process of labrum emarginate; mandibles red at apex; 

 clypeus shining, rather sparsely punctured; front striate; cheeks 

 normal, broad above. Third antennal joint not twice as long as 

 fourth. Vertex, cheeks, thorax, and femora with much long dull 

 white hair. Tibiae and tarsi with hair slightly ocherous. Mesotho- 

 rax shining on disk and hardly punctured. Area of metathorax 

 small, dull, and granular. Tegulae piceous. Wings hyaline, faintly 

 brownish; nervures and the slender stigma amber color. Basal 

 nervure falling short of transverse median. Second submarginal cell 

 receiving first recurrent nervure near end of its first third. Third 

 submarginal very broad above. Abdomen shining, with very fine 

 punctures, covered with short white hair not hiding the surface, denser 

 at sides but not forming distinct bands. Apical plate emarginate. 



Related to A. laramiensis, with which it agrees in the tegumentary 

 colors and the venation. The lateral face marks do not project 



