BEES IN THE COLLECTION OF THE UNITED STATESNATIONAL MUSEUM. 2.
By T. D. A. Cockerell,Of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
The present contribution deals principally with Asiatic bees, andincludes a number of new species collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott inlocalities rarely visited by naturalists. Especially interesting arethose obtained at very high altitudes in the Himalayan region, be-longing to a peculiar fauna, recently made known in part through thework of the British Tibet expedition. 1 Doctor Abbott's collectionshave long priority over those of the British expedition, but descrip-tions of the latter have, in part, been published first.HALICTUS NIKKOENSIS, new species.Female.?Length slightly over 6 mm., anterior wing 4^; head,thorax, and abdomen olive-green; head large, broader than thorax,facial quadrangle larger than the small mesothorax; clypeus notproduced, its lower part blackened, its surface shining, with distinctbut very sparse punctures; mandibles dark red subapically; supra-clypeal area shining ; front and vertex dullish, very densely granular-punctate; cheeks broad, unarmed; antennas dark, apical part offlagellum ferruginous; hair of head and thorax dull white, scanty;mesothorax and scutellum shining, with fine close punctures, }ret notso close on disk as to hide the surface; area of metathorax lookinggranular under a lens, but really covered with very fine, vermiformanastomosing wrinkles; tegulse testaceous; wings yellowish, with asort of dilute orange tint; stigma and nervures pale ferruginous, outernervures distinct; second s. m. narrow, only about half as broadas third, receiving first r. n. at about beginning of its last third;legs dark, with pale yellowish hair, anterior and middle knees pallid,tarsi reddish, the hind basitarsus darker; hind spur with two largebroad blunt teeth, the first about quadrate, the second very low,very much broader than long; abdomen finely punctured, the hind
1 See Entomologist, Sept., 1910.Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol.40?No. 1818. 24180796??Proc.N.M.vol.40?11 16
242 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40.margins of the segments more or less testaceous, and covered withgrayish-white hair bands, those on the first two segments wantingin the middle, but on the third and fourth entire.Habitat.?Nikko, Japan (Koebele)
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A species of the group of H. tumulorum, noticeable for the largehead, with a well-developed occipital region. Among the describedJapanese species it is nearest to //. alexoides Strand, but this latter islarger, with the tarsi and basitarsi of the female clear yellow.Type.?Cat. No. 13529, U.S.N.M.In the following key the new species is contrasted with severalother related forms:Abdomen densely covered with pubescence, the apical hair bands, if any, not con-spicuous 1.Abdomen with very conspicuous apical hair bands 2.1. About 9 mm. long; hair of abdomen distinctly ochreous, wings slightly milky.(Buda; Friese) cariniventris Morawitz.Smaller; hair of abdomen dense, pale grayish; vertex and mesothorax bluish.vestitus Lepeletier.2. Metathorax dark, greenish-black (Innsbruck; Friese) tumulorum Linnaeus.Metathorax clear green 3.3. Mesothorax small, closely punctured but shining, the surface visible between thepunctures nikkoensis Cockerell.Mesothorax very densely punctured, granular subauratus Rossi (includingseladonius Fabricius) and virescens Lepeletier (including gramineus Smith.)HALICTUS CALCEATUS Scopoli.Gersau, Switzerland, July 30, and Rigi Culm, Switzerland, August1, 1909 (T. D. A. and W. P. Cockerell).HALICTUS QUADRINOTATUS Kirby.A male at Wangen, Baden, August 5, 1909 (Cockerell).HALICTUS PAUXILLUS Schenk.Two females at Wangen, Baden, August 5, 1909 (Cockerell). Frey-Gessner remarks that one would take this for a small //. albipes, butit has the mesothorax less densely punctured, with the surface betweenthe punctures plainly visible. This is well said, for among a seriesof II. albipes received from Doctor Friese I find a pauxillus, collectedby him at Buda. HALICTUS INTERRUPTUS Panzer.One female at Wangen, Baden, August 5, 1909 (Cockerell).HALICTUS TUMULORUM Linnaeus.My wife and I collected this in 1909 at Troyes, France, August 8;Gersau, Switzerland, July 30; Wangen, Baden, August 5.HALICTUS MORIO Fabricius.Wangen, Baden, August 5, 1909 (Cockerell).
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 243ANDRENA KNUTHI Alfken.Two males from Wakasa, Japan (T. Fukai). The dark markingson the upper part of the clypeus may be barely visible (excepting theusual spots, which are always distinct), or the whole upper two-fifths of the clypeus may be black. The abdomen is extremely shiny,with the hind margins of the segments testaceous.ANDRENA PR^COCIFORMIS, new species.Male.?Length 8 to 9 mm., black, with long white hair on head,thorax, and legs, black at sides of face, upper part of cheeks behind,and a little on scutellum. In Schmiedeknecht's table of Europeanspecies it runs to A. parvula, but it actually resembles A. prsecoxScopoli, so much so that at first sight it seems to be the same. Itdiffers from prsecox by the rather smaller size; the cheeks, thoughbroad, dullish except near the eye, and not angled behind (shiny andangled in prxcox) ; the mandibles moderate, without the very longfalciform apical tooth of prsecox; the head above and cheeks with lessblack hair ; the sides of thorax behind with hair all white ; the meta-thorax rougher; the hind margins of abdominal segments a littlereddish, and with a tendency to thin marginal hair bands at sides.Mesothorax dull and rough; metathorax very dull and rough, thearea ill defined, minutely granular, roughened basally, its apical angleacute; tegulse very dark rufo-piceous ; wings as in prsecox, but stigmadarker (variable) ; first r. n. joining the broad second s. m. aboutmiddle; abdomen shining, without distinct punctures. Antennaljoints 3 to 5 measured as follows in two specimens: the type, (3.) 374,(4) 255, (5.) 340 p.. Another, (3.) 323, (4) 306, (5) 340 p.. Thelatter specimen is the larger.Habitat.?Japan, specimens numbered 1G6 and 54.The Californian A. knuthiana Cockerell is also allied. A. japonicaAlfken is also compared with prsecox, but it is larger and evidentlydifferent.Type.?Cat. No. 13530, U.S.N.M.ANDRENA RUPSHUENSIS, new species.Female.?Length slightly over 11 mm.; black, with pale hair, theform rather slender, at first sight rather suggesting a male; hair ofhead and thorax long and loose, white below, very pale ochreousabove, vertex and sides of front with dark fuscous hair; face verybroad, eyes small, so that the facial quadrangle is about 1? as broadas long; malar space large, brilliantly shining; mandibles with theapical half obscurely ferruginous; cheeks broad, shining; process oflabrum broad, truncate; clypeus brilliantly shining, well punctured,except a broad smooth median band; front dull and roughened;facial fovese broad, occupying much more than half space between
244 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40.antennae and eyes, dark seal brown, not separated from eye, endinga little above level of top of clypeus; antennae black (flagellumbrownish-black), the third joint almost as long as the next threecombined; mesothorax shining, the disk with distinct but well sepa-rated punctures; scutellum shining; base of metathorax dull andgranular, without rugae, the area scarcely defined; tegulae darkrufotestaceous ; wings moderately dusky; stigma and nervures fer-ruginous, rather dark; first r. n. reaching second s. m. far beyondmiddle; legs black, the tarsi dark ferruginous; spurs ferruginous;hair of legs dull white on femora, pale orange on tarsi; mainlyreddish on tibiae; the orange scopa of hind tibia has collected aquantity of red pollen ; abdomen shining, with only feeble piliferouspunctures, hind margins of the segments narrowly testaceous; firstsegment with much long pale hair; segments one to four with con-spicuous white apical hair-bands, that on first thin in the middle;caudal fimbria purplish-sooty, as also the thick apical fringe of fifthsegment.Habitat?Rupshu, Ladak, 16,000 feet, July 21 and 22, 1897 (W. L.Abbott).In Schmiedeknecht's table this runs to 153, and runs out becauseof the yellow or orange scopa, combined with the absence of distinctpunctures on the abdomen. The superficial appearance is that of arather pale A.fulvicrus Kirby, but the latter has a strongly puncturedabdomen. This seems to have no special affinity with any of thenumerous species described from northern India and adjacentregions. It may possibly be identical with one of the 52 describedby Morawitz from Turkestan, but I think not, as the bee-fauna of thehigher altitudes in the Himalayas seems to be wholly distinct (as tospecies) from that of the lower levels, as might be expected.Type.?Cat. No. 13531, U.S.N.M.ANDRENA PILIPES Fabricius.Pekin, China, April 21-30, 1901 (M. L. Robb). These Chinesespecimens run exactly to pilipes in Schmiedeknecht's table, and uponcomparison with a specimen of A. pilipes from Sicily, I fail to find anytangible difference. One specimen (female) is stylopized.ANDRENA THORACICA Fabricius.Pekin, China, April 20, 1901 (M. L. Robb). Three females in ratherpoor condition. These run exactly to thoracica in Schmeideknecht'stable, and agree perfectly with his description. I possess only themale of European thoracica, but it agrees in general with these females,except for the usual sexual differences; especially characteristic arethe pallid wings with ferruginous nervures, the second s. m. large.In both sexes the b. n. falls a little short of the t. m.
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 245The collection contains three other species of Andrena from Pekinwhich I fail to recognize, but they are in indifferent condition, and Ican not venture to describe them as new.NOMIA CHALYBEATA Smith.One male; Foochow, China (H. R. Caldwell). This agrees wellenough with Smith's description of his type from Shanghai, butBingham describes chalyheata, which he records from Tenasserim,as having rufo-fulvous legs. I can only suppose that Bingham hada different species. The Foochow specimen has a good deal ofblack hair on the mesothorax and scutellum, and the flagellum andapical margins of the wings are darker than Smith indicates. Thereare, perhaps, several closely allied species or races of this immediategroup, but if so more material is needed for their elucidation.NOMIA PUNCTULATA Dalla Torre.Described from China. A male and female from Japan (Mitsu-Tcuri) do not appear to differ in any respect. The female has threeemerald green bands on the abdomen, while the four of the maleare more bluish green. The species is very close to the IndianN. elliotii Smith, but easily separated by the absence of a band onthe first abdominal segment.NOMIA TERMINATA Smith, var. a.Female.?Length about 14 mm., anterior wing 11^; black, withoutany evident bands on abdomen; postscutellum unarmed; wingsstrongly yellowish, the apex broadly clouded with fuscous. Hair ofhead and thorax ferruginous, but on mesothorax and anterior partof scutellum thin and mixed with fuscous; mandibles black; clypeusshining, depressed in middle, with very strong, sparse punctures;supraclypeal area elevated and punctured; clypeal keel or ridgeevanescent; abdomen shining, feebly punctured, the hind margins ofsecond and third segments at sides with pale yellowish tegumentarybands.Two females from, Khow Sai Dow Mountain, 1,000 feet, LowerSiam, February, 1899 (W. L. Abbott). On account of the feebleclypeal keel, the rudiments of tegumentary bands on abdomen, andthe feebly punctured abdominal segments, I was inclined to regardthis as a distinct species. Close comparison with the descriptions ofSmith and Bingham convinced me that the insect was at best avariety, however. Bingham states that the clypeal keel is slight,and Smith says the abdomen is smooth and shining. The rudimentsof tegumentary bands may have been overlooked.N. aureipennis Gribodo, from Perak, is smaller (female, 11 mm.),and the tegumentary bands on the second and third segments arebetter developed, though interrupted in the middle. This, thoughvery closely allied, has better claims to distinction.
246 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40.PSEUDOMELECTA INTERRUPTA Cresson.Kerrville, Texas, April, 1907 (P. Durham).COELIOXYS (LIOTHYRAPIS, new subgenus) APICATA Smith.One female; Trong, Lower Siam, January-February, 1899 (W. L.Abbott). This agrees with an Indian C. apicata from F. Smith'scollection. The species is taken as the type of a new subgenusLiothyrapis, distinguished by the absence of hair on the eyes. Ac-cording to Friese and others, C. apicata is a synonym of C. decipiensSpinola, described from Egypt, and the same species is said toextend to South Africa, whence it was described as C. verticalisSmith. I have a female of C. verticalis from Doctor Brauns, col-lected at Willowmore, Cape Colony, December 1, 1904. It is adifferent looking insect from apicata, although structurally almostthe same. The apical part of the second abdominal segment (beyondthe groove) is shorter, the more abundant pale pubescence gives theinsect a hoary appearance, the legs are largely red, and the wingsare hardly so dark. I am satisfied that apicata and verticalis shouldbe regarded as different species.I have no material of the genuine C. decipiens, but according toSpinola it has black legs, and the wings hyaline, only smoky at thedistal margin. Probably it is separable from apicata on the one handand verticalis on the other.COELIOXYS SIAMENSIS, new species.Female.?Length 12 mm.; black, including legs and antennae, withwhite pubescence ; hair on inner side of tarsi pale golden ; eyes palegreen, their hair short but thick; face with much white hair; vertexwith very large coarse punctures ; cheeks behind eyes densely coveredwith pure white hair, this white area sharply bounded behind by akeel or ridge; mesothorax and scutellum with exceedingly largepunctures, those on scutellum more irregular and less dense; hindmargin of scutellum turned upwards, more or less notched in themiddle; lateral teeth strong; prothorax, margins of mesopleura,tubercles, and metathorax covered with white hair, which alsoforms a spot behind each tegula, a pair of spots on anterior marginof scutellum, and a tuft below each scutellar tooth; area of meta-thorax irregularly plicate at base, otherwise smooth; tegulse piceous;wings with about the apical half dark fuscous; spurs dark reddishbrown; abdomen with slight purple tints, shining, strongly butsparsely punctured, with narrow pure white hair-bands at theapical margins of the segments, broadly interrupted in the middle;last dorsal segment very finely punctured, narrowed and keeledapically; last ventral elongate-conical, not notched at sides, consid-
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 247erably exceeding dorsal, moderately bent downward; penultimateventral segment sparsely punctured basally, densely striatulate atapex.Habitat.?Trong, Lower Siam, two females, one in poor condition(W.L.Abbott).In Bingham's table this runs to C. confusus Smith, and indeed ithas been identified by Doctor Ashmead as this species. I believeit is distinct, from the characters cited by Bingham for confusus,the two being separable as follows:Clypeus higher than usual, but otherwise normal; last ventral segment rather broad,though with nearly straight sides; apical margin of scutellum turned upward;abdomen strongly though sparsely punctured, the basal segment like the others.siamensis.Clypeus very large, transverse anteriorly; last ventral segment extremely narrow;apical margin of scutellum not turned upward; abdomen finely punctured, thepunctures most dense on basal segment confusus.Bingham does not specifically state that the hind scutellar margin ofconfusus is not upturned, but Nurse describes C. perseus as the onlyIndian species having this character.C. lepotaxis Enderlein, from Sumatra, seems also to be allied.In its general superficial appearance C. siamensis much resemblesC. penetatrix Smith, from Willowmore, Cape Colony (Brauna).Type.?Cat. No. 13532, U.S.N.M.EPEOLUS PUSILLUS Cresson.Victoria, Texas, April 1, 1907, at flowers of Callirrhoe involucrata(Nuttall), one male (J. D. Mitchell).STELIS COSTALIS Cresson.One male; Dallas, Texas, May 11, 1908 (R. A. Cushman).STELIS LOUISA, new species.Male.?Length about 7 mm., similar to S. costalis, but second r. n.meeting second t. c; clypeus with a very broad yellow transverseband, lobed above, leaving the upper part and lower margin dark;pleura with a large chrome yellow patch; coxae, trochanters, andfemora, except at apex, black; apices of femora and all of tibiae andtarsi, pale yellowish-ferruginous, the anterior tibiae quite yellow infront; first abdominal segment more coarsely punctured, its bandbroader, with the posterior excavations ferruginous; second segmentwith only lateral spots; fifth with only a small transverse yellowmark in middle, but bands on third and fourth as in costalis (prob-ably these abdominal markings are variable); short hair on andabout apex of sixth segment black. The labrum is dark, whereasin costalis it is clear red. The insect is smaller and narrower thanS. costalis.Habitat.?-Mound, Louisiana, May 12, 1905 (C. R. Jones).Type.?Cat. No. 13533, U.S.N.M.
248 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 40.DIANTHIDIUM SIMILE Cresson.Two males; Kerrville, Texas, April, 1907, collected by H. Durham,one dated April 14, at flowers of Marrubium vulgare. The TexasD. simile is not altogether typical, and should perhaps be separated. 1DIANTHIDIUM PARVUM Cresson.Two of each sex; Flagstaff, Arizona, at flowers of 7m, June 11,1909 (F. C. Pratt). This species has the same structure as D. simile,and is perhaps only to be regarded as a western race. The male ofD. pudicum Cresson is distinct by the more strongly lobed apex ofabdomen. DIANTHIDIUM TEXANUM Cresson.One of each sex; Dallas, Texas; the female, March 2, 1908 (witha second label, evidently erroneous, giving date April 28, 1908);the male, May 3, 1908 (C. E. Hood). Cresson describes only themale, but the female looks just the same, except that the middlethird or more of the clypeus is black. The ventral scope is yellowishwhite. ANTHIDIUM PECOSENSE Cockerell.One male and two females; Flagstaff, Arizona, at flowers of Iris,June 11, 1909 (F. C. Pratt). The male type of pecosense has thesecond r. n. meeting the outer t. c; in the three Arizona specimensit goes beyond it, in the manner of Dianthidium. A minute com-parison of the males leaves no doubt that they belong to the samespecies. The female is similar but rather smaller, with the clypeusand lateral face marks yellow, as in the male; mandibles with muchyellow; labrum black; a yellow occipital stripe, broadly interruptedin the middle; cheeks black; thoracic yellow markings better devel-oped than in male, with the axillse and hind margin of scutellum(narrowly interrupted in middle) broadly yellow; legs with moreyellow, the femora with a large yellow stripe or band; band on firstabdominal segment notched behind, not divided into four spots;sixth segment yellow, with broad low rounded lateral lobes; ventralscope glittering pale fulvous.ANTHIDIUM POUDREUM Titus.This has been printed pondreum, a misprint for poudreum. Mr.Pratt took four males and two females at Flagstaff, Arizona, at Irisflowers, at the same time as the A. pecosense cited above. TheArizona males are more robust than Colorado specimens usually are-The female is like that of A. pecosense, but the clypeus has a largeblack triangle with the apex pointing downwards, the whole clypeusbeing divided into three subequal triangular areas, one black andtwo yellow. The yellow of the mesothorax is confined to a stripe
J See Cockerell, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 9, 1908, p. 72.
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 249above each tegula, the abdominal bands are lighter, and the femoraare black without the large yellow stripes. Some of the charactersformerly cited to separate male pecosense from poudreum, are notconstant. A constant character in the Arizona males is the absenceof yellow on the mesothorax.The following key separates some females of AntMdium in whichthe scopa is pale. My A. blanditum prsedentatum seems to belongrather with placitum. The female of A. pecosense so nearly agreeswith the description of A. blanditum from Nevada as to suggest thatthe two represent variations or races of one species.Clypeus yellow, with at most lower edge, and two dots near upper margin, dark;mesothorax with an angular pale stripe on each side 1.Clypeus at least largely dark 2.1
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Pubescence pale blanditum Cresson.Pubescence fulvous, especially above; legs with less black. . . pecosense Cockerell.2. Mesothorax without light markings; bands on abdominal segments 1 to 5, eachbroken into four spots maculosum Cresson.Mesothorax with light markings 3.3. Mesothorax with an angular pale stripe on each side 4.Mesothorax with a straight mark or a spot on each side 5.4. Clypeus with a median black stripe placitum Cresson.Clypeus with a black bidentate mark on upper part; legs with more black.placitum prsedentatum Cockerell.5. Sixth abdominal segment above yellow, except at base; wings darker.poudreum Titus.Sixth abdominal segment with two rounded pale spots; wings paler.montivagum Cresson.Through the kindness of Professor Gillette I received a pair ofsupposedly authentic A. poudreum, collected at Fort Collins andPalmer Lake, Colorado. They are both A. tenuiflorae Cockerell, butit is clear from the description of poudreum that it could not havebeen based on specimens of tenuiflorse.ANTHIDIUM PORTERS Cockerell.Two males and one female; Marfa, Texas, June 6, 1908 (Mitchelland Cushman). ANTHIDIUM TENTJIFLOR.E: Cockerell.Two males; Helena, Montana, August 6 (W. M. Mann). New toMontana. ANTHIDIUM PHILORUM Cockerell, var. ABBOTTI, new variety.Male.?Length, 10 mm.; all the pubescence white; clypeus, lateralface-marks, and mandibles except apex, cream-color, as also a spotabove top of each eye; antennae wholly black; thorax without lightmarkings; tegulse black; basitarsi light yellow, the other tarsal jointslight ferruginous; abdominal bands all interrupted in the middle(though the last two very narrowly), and deeply and broadly exca-vated (that on second segment interrupted) at sides; no light mark-ings on first or last segments; apical segment with broad divergent
250 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40.lateral lobes, and a slender median spine; penultimate segmentstrongly dentate at sides, the margin next to the teeth not denticulate.Habitat?Rupshu,Ladak, 16,000 feet, July 23, 1897 (W. L.Abbott).In Friese's table this runs to A. affine Morawitz, but differs invarious particulars; for example, the lateral lobes at the end of theabdomen have no inwardly-directed point and are not notched onthe outer side. There is the strongest resemblance to the RockyMountain J., tenuiflorse Cockerel 1 ; superficially they appear the same,but on close comparison many minor differences appear.A. philorum was described from a female obtained by the BritishTibet expedition, at an altitude of 13,000 feet in the Himalayas.The male here recorded may, I think, be safely referred to it. 1Type.?Cat. No. 13534, U.S.N.M.PROANTHIDIUM KASHGARENSE, new species.Female.?Length about 10 mm.; robust, black with deep chrome-yellow markings, the femora and the basal declivity of the abdomenlargely red; head and throax very densely, rather coarsely punctured,the rather coarse pubescence rufofnlvous above, paler below, paleyellowish-gray on pleura and sides of metathorax; face broad, eyesconverging below, dull green slightly suffused with reddish; clypeusand broad lateral marks yellow, the latter broadly obliquely truncateabove, the lower side of the truncation on the orbit; lower edge ofclypeus black, with a strong transverse groove; mandibles yellowexcept the broad edge, which bears many black teeth, a big one atthe end being followed by six very small ones, after which comeseveral big ones; an entire yellow band across occiput, broadened atsides and ending in a sharp point; antennae black, joints 2, 5, and Gred beneath; mesothorax wholly black; tubercles largely yellow;scutellum and axillae very broadly margined with yellow; axillae notdentiform; scutellum projecting, with a sharp posterior edge, thelateral corners subangulate but rounded; tegula? punctured, yellowwith a large rufous spot; wings dusky, strongly so in and beyondmarginal cell; b. n. going basal of t. m. ; first r. n. meeting first t. c;second r. n. going well beyond second t. c; legs yellow except atextreme base, the femora suffused with red; hair on inner side oftarsi fulvous, on outer side pale golden ; abdomen with pale fulvoushair, including the scopa; basin of first segment sharply margined;apex broadly rounded, turned outwards; all the segments with broaddeep yellow bands, the first three or four rather narrowly interruptedin middle, but none notched at sides.
1 Since writing the above I have received a male of true A. philorum from the British Museum. Itdiffers from Doctor Abbott's insect in having large pale-yellow marks on the last abdominal segment,and the first segment having a large pale-yellow patch on each side, continued mesad as a slenderscimitar-shaped mark.
NO. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 251Habitat.?Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, August 26, 1893 (W. L.Abbott).This is a species of ProantMdium, related to P. oblongatum, fromwhich it differs by the fulvous scopa and the greater amount ofyellow on the thorax, as well as other details. Proantliidium Friesemust not be confused with Protanthidium T. and W. Cockerell, whichis a quite different genus.Type.?Cat. No. 13535, U.S.N.M.LITHURGUS APICALIS OPUNTLffi Cockerel).One female; Del Rio, Texas, May 8, 1907 (F. C. Bishopp).MEGACHILE PAMIRENSIS, new species.Male.?Length 13 mm.; black, the tarsi ferruginous, the anteriorand middle basitarsi variably dusky at base; head ordinary; eyesobscure reddish; mandibles dark, with two apical teeth, the outerone long; vertex and front dull and roughened; face and lower andhind part of cheeks densely covered with long white hair; anteriorpart of cheeks, and vertex, with fuscous hair, but occiput with longpale hair; antennae black, third joint longer than second, but shorterthan fourth; mesothorax and scutellum densely punctured; thoraxabove with dull white hair slightly tinged with ochreous, or stronglysuffused with reddish-fuscous, especially on scutellum; hair of pleuraand metathorax also variable in the same manner; tegulas shiningblack, slightly reddish posteriorly; wings moderately dusky, notdark; a brownish cloud in marginal cell; legs with long hair, varyingfrom white to brown like that of the thorax, but the middle andhind tarsi and anterior tarsi in large part, with clear ferruginous hair,matching their tegumentary color; anterior coxae densely coveredwith long hair, unarmed; anterior tarsi rather thick, but not other-wise modified; tibial spurs ferruginous; abdomen with black hairon basal part of first segment, but otherwise the hair on first threesegments is warm ochreous; on the other segments it is black,except that on the fourth it is largely ochreous or practically allblack; sixth segment depressed, the broadly rounded distal marginbearing a series of eight to ten prominent subequal teeth; seventhsegment with a broadly rounded median lobe; no distinct hair-bands, but the pale hair on the first three segments is so arrangedas to produce a somewhat banded effect; fourth ventral segment notemarginate.Habitat?Tagdumbash, Pamir, 13,000 feet, June 14, 1894 (W. L.Abbott). Two males.A very distinct species, related to the M. ericetorum group. Theappearance of the abdomen (but not the apical structure) is muchlike that of M. circumcincta. The mandibles and antennae are formedessentially as in ericetorum, and the sixth abdominal segment is
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similar, but the seventh is quite different. M. piliventris Morawitzhas the sixth abdominal segment serrate, but the anterior tarsi arebroadly dilated.Type.?Cat. No. 13536, U.S.N.M.MEGACHILE LADACENSIS, new species.Male.?Length, 11-114 mm.; black, the anterior femora in front,their tibiae, extreme apex of middle and hind tibiae in front, andmiddle and hind tarsi all ferruginous, the middle basitarsus suffusedwith blackish basally; first three joints of anterior tarsi very paleyellowish, last two ferruginous; head ordinary, rather broad; eyesdull green; mandibles thick, with two apical teeth, which are moreor less reddish; beneath at base, the mandibles have a large process,which fits into a little shelf on under side of head, the edge of whichis covered with ochreous tomentum; clypeus normal, shining andminutely punctured; front minutely roughened; face covered withlong white hair; hair of vertex and thorax above thin, dull white;mesothorax closely punctured, except in the middle of the disk,where it is shining, with scattered punctures, but the posterior mid-dle is dull; anterior edge of scutellum shining; tegulse ferruginous,clouded with brownish toward base; wings hyaline, faintly dusky;anterior coxae with stout dark spines, a little patch of orange pubes-cence at the base of each; anterior tarsi little broadened, but witha long white fringe behind, covering a yellowish one about half aslong; the light yellow basitarsus parallel-sided, more than twice aslong as broad, the inner apical corner produced, finger-like; hair oninner side of hind tarsi very pale orange; hind spurs pale brownish;abdomen shining, rather sparsely punctured, the hind margins of thesegments rather broadly testaceous or ferruginous; first two segmentswith thin, long white hair; hind margins of second to fourth with thickapical fringes of white hair, that on second developed only at sides,that on third broadly interrupted, that on fourth entire; extremesides of third and fourth segments with some yellowish hair; noblack hair on abdomen anywhere ; fifth and sixth segments with longochreous or fulvous hair, the fifth with a white fringe under thefulvous; projecting margin of sixth segment broadly shallowlyemarginate, and at sides variably inclined to be crenulate; seventhsegment with a strong median projection, and a little one on eachside; ventral segments broadly pale-margined, fourth emarginate.Habitat.?The type is labeled Rupshu, Ladak, 16,000 feet, July21, 1897 (W.L.Abbott).Another male collected by Doctor Abbott is labeled TsomorariLake, Rupshu, Ladak, 16,000 feet, July 31, 1897. Apparently closeto M. dentiventris Smith, but that has black tegulse, and the end ofthe abdomen is different.Type.?Cat. No. 13537, U.S.N.M.
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COGKERELL. 253MEGACHILE RUPSHUENSIS, new species.Female.?Length 10 mm.; black, the small joints of tarsi ferru-ginous; hair of head, thorax, and legs rather dull white, thin, notat all mixed with dark; head rather large; mandibles broad, withoutdistinct teeth (doubtless worn); clypeus closely punctured, with animperfect median ridge, the lower margin thickened, slightly crenu-lated, and with a minute median tubercle; front dull, except infront of ocelli, where it is shining; vertex shining, sparsely punc-tured; antennae black; mesothorax shining, closely punctured at sides,but the disk broadly smooth, very sparsely punctured, the smootharea reaching back to scutellum; scutellum with a slight medianeminence, which is shining; tegulse dark reddish, with paler margins;wings slightly dusky; all the tarsi thick, with the hair on inner sideorange; hind basitarsus rather broad and flat; spurs ferruginous;abdomen shining, with white hair-bands as in M. ladacensis, but noferruginous hair dorsally, the last dorsal segment having appressedwhite hair; ventral scopa very bright fox-red, containing pollen ofthe same color.Habitat.?Rupshu, Ladak, 16,000 feet, July 23, 1897 (W. L.Abbott).I thought at first that this was the female of M. ladacensis, but thesmaller size and differences in sculpture make this improbable, not-withstanding the close superficial resemblance. It is not impossible,however, that they may belong together.Type.?Cat. No. 13538, U.S.N.M.MEGACHILE INIMICA Cresson.Runge, Texas, at flowers of Helianthus, September 13, 1904, threefemales (J. C. Crawford); Dallas, Texas, at flowers of GaillardiaJune 10, 1907, female (F. C. Bishopp).MEGACHILE MEGAGYNA Cockerell.Ardmore, Oklahoma, July 11, two females (C. R. Jones).MEGACHILE VALLORUM Cockerell.Dallas, Texas, August 23, 1905, female (J. C. Crawford).MEGACHILE POLLICARIS PEREXIMIA Cockerell.Devils River, Texas, May 8, a small (about 12^ mm. long) male(F. C. Bishopp); Devils River, May 6, 1907, at flowers of Monardacitriodora, two males, the abdomen strongly infested with mites(F. C. Pratt); Victoria, Texas, at flowers of Helianthus, April 26,1904, two males (F. C. Bishopp); Paris, Texas, May, 1904 (Bishopp}
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254 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEl !/. vol.40.MEGACHILE ALBITARSIS Cresson.Chicato, Texas, September 6, 1904, two males (F. C. Bishopp);Ladonia, Texas, May 25, at flowers of Rudbeckia, sp. (F. C. Bishopp).MEGACHILE SAYI HETERODONTA Cockerell.Cresson says of M. sayi, "legs brown-ferruginous or black," andadds, "the male specimens from Texas have the legs, except coxae,entirely brown-ferruginous." The red-legged form may thereforebe regarded as the type, and Texas the type-locality. A femalefrom Illinois, received from Professor Robertson, is red-legged.M. heterodonta Cockerell is black-legged, but certainly representsnothing more than a race of M. sayi.MEGACHILE SAYI PALUDICOLA, new subspecies.Female.?Unusually large, about 16 to 18 mm. long; legs black ordark reddish; wings dark throughout, though darker in the costalregion; ventral scopa light yellowish, black on last segment.Habitat.?Hearne, Texas, July 23, 1906, nesting in bogs, twelvefemales (F. C. Bishopp).The ventral scopa of sayi and heterodonta is creamy-white, that ofpaludicola decidedly yellow.Type.?Cat. No. 13539, U.S.N.M.MEGACHILE COMATA Cresson.Seven males; Kerrville, Texas, three at Salvia pitcheri, four atMarrubium vulgare, April 10 to 12, 1907 (F. C. Pratt).MEGACHILE PRUINA Smith.Texan males bear the following data: Kerrville, at flowers of Mar-rubium vulgare, April 12, 1907 (F. C. Pratt); Kerrville, at flowers ofTetragonotheca ludoviciana, April 12, 1907 (F. C. Pratt); Kerrville, atflowers of Tetraneuris linearifolia, April 11, 1907 (F. C. Pratt); Kerr-ville, at Verbena, April 11, 1907 (F. C. Pratt); Dallas, at Helianthus,September 30, 1906 (R. A. Cushman); Devils River, at Gaillardiapulchella, May 3, 1907 (F. C. Pratt).CROCISA DECORA Smith.Trong, Lower Siam, January-February, 1899 (W. L. Abbott). Inthe Entomologist, August, 1910, I recorded this species from severaltropical localities, but suggested a possibility that the true decora,from north China, might be distinct. Mr. G. Meade-Waldo has nowcompared the species recorded by me with Smith's type, and kindlyreports that they agree in all essential points. He returns to me aSingapore specimen as a reliable exponent of decora. The Siamese
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 255specimen differs a little, in that the blue is deeply excavated at thesides of the first abdominal segment, and the abdominal bands aremore widely interrupted than in the type, but this appears to be onlya matter of individual variation.OSMIA SUBFASCIATA Cresson.This small blue species runs in both sexes in Robertson's tables toDiceratosmia, except for the absence of the frontal tubercles. Thefemale has tridentate mandibles, and the ventral scopa white, varyingto slightly yellowish. The following localities are represented in thematerial before me: OKLAHOMA.Hugo, at flowers of Monarda citriodora, females, June 20 (F. C.Bishopp).Ardmore. Females collected by Bishop]), April 11 and 21, atRubus; males by Bishopp, March 3 to April 21, at Rubus and wildplum. TEXAS.Dallas. Fifty-seven males, collected by Bishopp and Cushman,March 7 to April 26, common at Rubus and wild plum, but also atCercis canadensis and Amorpha fruticosa. Twenty-one females,mostly collected bj^ Bishopp, March 20 to June 26, at blackberry,Monarda citriodora and Gaillardia pulchella. Two are labeled asbred from heads of Aphanostephus skirrobasis, but Messrs. Pierce andBishopp, in response to an inquiry, state that they think the beeswere from the flowers, and whoever labeled them, accidentallyomitted to erase the word "bred." Two collected by E. S. Tucker,March 13, 1908, are labeled "in nest mud wasp."Ladonia. Females collected by Bishopp at Achillea, May 17, andat Monarda, June 1.Pittsburg. One female, May 9 (Bishopp).Kerrville. Twenty-one females, one collected by P. Durham, therest by F. C. Pratt, April 12 and 13, at Marrubium vulgare.Waco. Nine males, six at Rubus, three at yellow Oxalis, March 22(R. A. Cushman).Clarksville. March 30, 1908 (E. S. Tucker). Three males; "oldstalks horseweed."Victoria. One male, March 6 (J. C. Crawford) ; one female, onQuercus, March 26 (J. D. Mitchell).Calvert. One male, April 5 (C. R. Jones).Handley. One male, April 27 (J. C. Crawford).Paris. Three males, April 10 (F. C. Bishopp; female, April 17(Bishopp).Falfurrias. Four males at Helianthus, May 18 (A. C. Morgan).
256 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40.Devil's River. Seven females, one collected by Pratt, the othersby Bishopp, May 3 to 6, at flowers of Marilaunidium, origanifolium,Gaillardia pulchella, and sumach.Del Rio. One female, May 8 (Bishopp).Weatherford. Three females, June 9, at Monarda (C. R. Jones).Wolfe City. One female, at Helenium tenuifolium, May 31(Bishopp).Wichita Falls. Two females, at Monarda, June 11 (C. R. Jones).Llano. One female, May 20 (W. D. Pierce).Mineral W[ell?]. Two females, June 9, at Monarda (Jones).Brownsville. Two females, at Monarda citriodora, March 23 (Jonesand Pratt). DASYPODA JAPONICA, new species.Almost exactly like D. plumipes Panzer (hirtipes Latreille), but inthe female the head is broader, with the eyes more diverging above,the black hair on dorsum of thorax is less abundant, the middle tibiaeand tarsi have purplish-sooty hair on outer side, and the hind tibiaeand tarsi are more or less ornamented in the same manner. The onlymale seen is headless, but it is like a rather small pale plumipes; thesixth ventral segment is broadly shallowly emarginate.Habitat.?Japan (Mitsukuri), one female (type) in U. S. NationalMuseum; Japan, 10 females, 1 male, in Berlin Museum. The BerlinMuseum specimens appear to have been in some liquid, and thepubescence is matted.The tibiae and'tarsi of the male (except for the hair) are black,whereas in D. tibialis Morawitz from Mongolia they are rufo-testaceous.Type.?Cat. No. 13540, U.S.N.M.EUCERA SOCIABILIS Smith.Female.?Length about 14 mm.; black, without light markings onface; hair of vertex and thorax above pale yellowish, not mixed withblack; hair of face, sides of thorax, etc., paler, to yellowish white, butthat of labrum distinctly ochreous; head broad, facial quadrangle alittle broader than long; clypeus strongly and very densely punctured,but shining; antennae entirely dark, third joint almost as long as4 + 5; mesothorax closely punctured at sides, but in middle withstrong, widely separated punctures on a shining ground; scutellumwith dense small punctures, entirely contrasting with middle ofmesothorax; tegulae ferruginous; wings dusky; hair on inner side ofhind basitarsus ferruginous; abdominal segments 3 to 5 with broaddark chocolate basal bands; 2 to 4 with broad white apical bands,that on" 2 very broadly, that on 3 narrowly, interrupted; apex of fifthsegment with pale brown hair.
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 257Male.?The male varies greatly in size (length 1H-13 mm.) and inthe color of the pubescence, which may be rich fox-red or pale gray onthe vertex and thorax above. The abdomen is described by Smithas without bands, but in good specimens there are very distinctcreamy-white to fulvous hair bands at the apices of segments 2 to 4,the abdomen looking like that of E. cinerea Lepeletier. The mandi-bles have no yellow spot.Habitat.?Pekin, China, April 20, 21, May 11, 12, 14, 1901 (M. L.Robb).I thought at first that this was a new species, but fortunately I havea pair of E. sociabilis cotypes from Hiogo, Japan, from F. Smith'scollection, and upon close comparison they are evidently conspecificwith the insect from Pekin. The cotype male is, indeed, withoutdistinct abdominal bands, but they appear to have been worn off,as is the case with nearly all the hair on the mesothorax and scutellum.In consequence of the difference in condition, the Chinese andJapanese specimens seem on superficial examination to be quitedifferent things. Smith himself stated that E. sociabilis occurredalso in China and Siberia. The females seen by me are quite uniform,but the males vary much. It is just possible that these males rep-resent more than one species, but I can not find any tangible struc-tural differences, and similar variation is well known in otherEucerine bees.In spite of the difference in venation, Tetralonia is much nearer toEucera than to Mclissodes. Eucera, with two submarginal cells, isabundantly developed in Europe, but becomes scarce in eastern Asia,and fails to occur in America.TETRALONIA MITSUKURII, new species.Male.?Body and antenna? each about 9 mm. long; black, the tarsibeyond the base ferruginous; clypeus, labrum, and large spot onbase of mandibles yellow; apical part of mandibles with an orangepatch; maxillary palpi pale, the third joint long, the three lastminute; antenna? long, the flagellum slender, crenulated, ferruginousbeneath, varying to black with the faintest red tinge; third antennaljoint very short; hair of head and thorax pale to rather brightochreous above, white below, no dark hair intermixed; mesothoraxand scutellum strongly punctured, but smooth and shining on disk,the mesothoracic punctures here widely separated; tegulse clearrufotestaceous; legs with pale hair; middle and hind tarsi slender;wings faintly dusky, nervines ferruginous; abdomen well punctured,especially the first two segments; hind margins of segments verynarrowly dark rufous, the punctures coming almost to the margin; noapical hair-bands, but broad pale grayish-ochreous basal ones; sixthsegment with the hair usually redder.80796??Proc.N.M.vol.40?11 17
258 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40.Female.?Length about 1(H-11^ mm.; black, robust, the smalljoints of tarsi ferruginous, and the hind margins of the abdominalsegments variably reddish; face all black; mandibles with a largeapical orange patch; clypeus strongly and densely punctured;flagellum dark, at most faintly reddish beneath; hair of scutelluma lively je\\owish-fulvous ; hair on inner side of hind basitarsi ferru-ginous; abdomen well punctured as in the male; basal band onsecond segment very narrow in middle, those on third and fourthbroad and pale, especially that on fourth, which is almost silverywhite and covers the margin of the segment; hair on fifth segmentand apex dark reddish chocolate, but that at sides of fifth broadlypale.Habitat.?Type male and three others (1 male, 2 females) fromJapan (Mitsukuri). Also two of each sex from Tokyo, Japan, Sep-tember, 1892; one male is dated September 26.Related to T. nipponensis, but uniformly smaller, with the abdomenmore strongly punctured, and the third antemial joint of the femalerather shorter in proportion.Type.?Cat. No. 13541, U.S.N.M.TETRALONIA NIPPONENSIS (Perez).Described by Perez as a Macrocera. I believe my identification iscorrect, although the mandibles of the female have a subapicalorange mark, whereas Perez describes them as entirely black. Inthe female the dark red hair at bases of segments 2 to 4, and the fineorange-fulvous covering the fifth, are especially characteristic. Thematerial consists of three males and two females, labeled Japan(Mitsukuri). TETRALONIA CHINENSIS Smith.Twenty-two males and eight females from Pekin, China, April 20 to30, 1901 (M. L. Robb). Smith described only the male; the femaleis much like that of T. nipponensis, but easily separated by the blackhair at the bases of the abdominal segments. The fifth segment hasthe hair white at sides and dilute chocolate in the middle. Theclypeus is densely and coarsely punctured. There are three white orgreyish-white abdominal hair bands.Knuth l records T. chinensis from Japan, and gives jioralia Smithand sociabilis Smith as synonyms. T. Jioralia is quite distinct fromchinensis, while sociabilis belongs to the genus Eucera.The following key separates the above three species:Males 1.Females; hair on inner side of hind basitarsus bright ferruginous 3.iThe record appears in the last volume of Knuth's Bliilenbiologie, edited by Dr. E. Loew. WhileKnuth collected the material on which the record was made, he was, I suppose, in no way responsiblefor the erroneous synonymy.
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1. Small, length of body and antennae each about 9 mm.; mandibles with a largeyellow spot mitsukurii Cockerell.Larger, mandibles without a yellow subbasal spot 2.2. Hair of abdomen above all pale nipponensis Perez.ELair of abdomen black or fuscous on bases of segments beyond the secondchinensis Smith.3. Bases of abdominal segments with black feltlike hair chinensis Smith.Bases of abdominal segments with brownish or reddish hair 4.4. Length 14-15 mm nipponensis Pe>ez.Length 10f-ll? mm mitsukurii Cockerell.Since the above was written, Friese has published two new speciesfrom Japan, T. okinawx and T. japonica. There is some resemblancebetween T. okinawse and T. mitsukurii, but the latter is smaller andevidently distinct. T. olcinawse does not come from Japan proper,but from the Riu Kiu Islands. T. japonica is recorded from " Jaku-shima, Siidjapan," but this is evidently Yaku Shima, in the Riu Kiugroup. Genus ANTHOPHORA.I have included in my account of the Asiatic species in the NationalMuseum a small series of Asiatic forms from the Berlin Museum.ANTHOPHORA SAVIGNYI Lepeletier.Three females in the Berlin Museum, collected by Ehrenberg inSyria and the Arabian Desert. In Friese's tables they run to A. albi-gena Lepeletier, but they have the stature and general appearance ofA. circulata Fabricius from Willowmore, S. Africa (Brauns). I amsatisfied that they are separable from albigena, circulata, quadri-fasciata, etc., but they agree excellently with the description of A.savignyi Lepeletier, based on a specimen from Egypt of unknownhistory. The only difference I can find is that the hair of the legs isin the main pale, not black; should this prove constant in a series,it may indicate a separable subspecies. The fulvous hair of the headand thorax above is strongly mixed with fuscous, a point overlookedby Lepeletier. The insect is distinguished from A. quadrifasciata bythe evident pale lateral face-marks (formed as in albigena) and thelarge patch of white^ hair on the outer side of the hind basitarsus.One of the Arabian specimens is paler than the others, the hair ofthe thorax being colored as in A. confusa. Dours thought A.savignyi was a variety of A. rufipes Lepeletier, a small (8 mm. long)South African species. I can not believe that this is at all the case;certainly, our insect is not a variety of rufipes.ANTHOPHORA ZONATA WHITEHEADI Cockerell.One male from the Island of Luzon, Philippine Islands, in theBerlin Museum. It was obtained from Rolle. The male, now firstmade known, differs from the female in the same manner as the rest
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of the zonata group. It is about or slightly over 10 mm. long, theabdominal bands shining lilac-blue or purple, the hair on outer sideof hind tibiae wholly creamy white. The face markings are paleyellow, and the third antennal joint has a conspicuous ferruginousspot. ANTHOPHORA ZONATA BURUENSIS, new subspecies.Female.?Length about 13 mm.; like zonata, but abdominal bandsentirely purple, as in A. zonata whitelieadi; face-markings whitish;scape with a pale stripe; fourth and fifth antennal joints ferruginousbeneath; hair of thorax above pale fulvous; tegulae ferruginous; hairon outer side of hind tibiae and basal two-thirds of basitarsi clearorange-ferruginous (in the manner A. zonata tematensis), the tibiawith a whitish apical brush.Habitat.?Buru (Moluccas), one female (V. Martens). BerlinMuseum. ANTHOPHORA CONFUSA Smith.Two from the Berlin Museum, one labeled "Himalaya, Hoffm.,"the other without locality. The colors of this insect are like thoseof the African A. niveata Friese, but the white abdominal bands arenarrower than in niveata.ANTHOPHORA EVERSA, new species.Female.?Length 14 mm., anterior wing 9| ; black, with pale creamyor dull white hair, that on the head and thorax above mixed withblack; tegument of face wholly black; labrum subquadrate, black,very coarsely rugose, with a smooth brownish spot near each uppercorner; mandibles black; malar space exceedingly small, but notentirely obsolete; eyes pale red; head broad; face with greyish hair;clypeus shining, prominent, convex, with distinct rather sparsepunctures and a median smooth line; disk of mesothorax shining,with scattered small punctures; tegulae ferruginous, fuscous at base;wings dusky, b. n. meeting t. m. a little on the basad side; legs black,with white hair, that on inner side of tibiae, and especially tarsi,ferruginous; small joints of tarsi clear red; spurs clear orange ferru-ginous; abdomen cordiform, black, the first segment covered withcreamy-white hair, the following three with black hair, and broadapical white hair bands, but the disk of the fourth segment withlargely pale hair in the middle; fifth segment with pale hair, but themedian apical brush dark fuscous; apical plate very narrow; lastventral segment projecting; ventral hair white, with a slight creamytinge; antennae black, third joint longer than the three followingunited.Habitat.?Lantschou, China (W. Filchner). Berlin Museum.Differs from A.jinitima Morawitz by the clear red spurs, the apicalbrush on the hind basitarsus pale reddish instead of black, and the
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 261larger size, but seems to be closely allied. Differs from A. testaceipesMorawitz by the smaller malar space, the redder tegula?, the darkerbasitarsi, and the white (not ferruginous) hair of middle of abdomenbeneath. Differs from A. tedslienensis Radoszkowski by the largersize, dusky wings, and the absence of hair on the disk of the clypeus.A. connexa (Podalirius connexus Nurse) is also related, but has piceousspurs, and other differences. There is quite a strong general resemb-lance to A. blanda Perez, from Tunis, but the abdominal bands aregreyish, slightly yellowish, not pure white as in blanda.ANTHOPHORA HILGENDORFI, new species.Female.?Length about 21 mm., expanse about 35, width ofabdomen a little over 8; robust, black, without light face markings;malar space evident; labrum broader than long, very rugose, withthe lower edge greatly thickened, and with a pair of small reddishspots near base; clypeus densely punctured, with a very obtusemedian keel; scape red at apex, antenna? otherwise black with thethird joint about as long as the next five together; hair of occiput,thorax above, upper part of pleura broadly, metathorax, and first twodorsal abdominal segments, all pale fulvous, not mixed with black;hair otherwise black except on outer side of hind tibiae in front, whereit is ferruginous; wings moderately dusky; tegula? clear ferruginous;spurs dark ferruginous. Very close to A. Mspanica Lepeletier, butless robust, the third and following abdominal segments with blackhair, and without the lateral light hair so conspicuous in Mspanica;the clypeus also is not so densely roughened. If the insect had beentaken in Spain or Northwest Africa I should think it a variety ofMspanica, but considering the remote locality, and the fact that itdoes not accord with any of the members of the Mspanica groupdescribed from Central Asia, it is doubtless a distinct species.Habitat.?Japan (Hilgendorf). Berlin Museum.ANTHOPHORA FULVITARSIS Brulle.One male, agreeing well with this species, though less robust thanone from Algeria. Pekin, China,, April 20, 1901 (M. L. Eobb).Nurse found A. fulvitarsis at Quetta, and Friese states that a malefrom China is in the Schulthess collection.ANTHOPHORA VENERABILIS, new species.Female.?Length 18 to 19^ mm.; black, including the face, denselycovered with pale grey hair, but that on hind knees, outer side of hindtibia?, and hind basitarsus except at apex, bright orange ferruginous.Malar space well developed; antenna? black, third joint about as longas the next four together; labrum with pale ferruginous hair; clypeusclosely punctured; sides of vertex and anterior part of cheeks withsome black hair; mesothorax with black hair mixed with the light;
262 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40.tegulae dark rufous; wings moderately dusky; b. n. just falling shortof t. m.; anterior femora with very long greyish-white hair behind,but black below and in front; their tibiae with black and pale mixed;their tarsi with black, rather reddish on inner side; middle femorawith long sooty hair; their tibiae and tarsi with ferruginous hair onouter side and black on inner; hind femora with black hair, butmostly white on upper side (white also on hind coxae and trochantersbeneath) ; their tibiae and tarsi with black hair on inner side and redon outer, the basitarsal brush black or dark reddish; hind spursferruginous, with lateral dark lines; apex of abdomen, around thenarrow apical plate, black haired; some black hair on basal part ofthird segment, almost hidden; apical ventral segments reddishhaired in middle, with black hair before the red.Habitat.?Japan (Hilgendorf). Five females in Berlin Museum.Kuns in Friese's table to A. senilis Eversmann, from Russia andTurkestan, but is larger, with the hair of the legs differently colored inpart and the tarsi dark. If it came from the mainland I shouldthink it probably a subspecies of A. senilis. Doctor Friese hasmarked one of the specimens ll canescens 1," i. e. A. nigrocincta, var.canescens Brulle, from Greece. It does accord very nearly withBrulle's short description, but considering the different locality, andthe fact that Brulle's insect was very insufficiently described, I cannot assume that the Japanese species is identical. It is perhaps justpossible that Brulle had a Japanese specimen with the wrong locality;Friese places canescens as a variety of nigrocincta without seeingspecimens, and if the two are really conspecific, the name canescenshas priority and should stand for the species. In Dalla Torre'sCatalogue canescens appears as a Megachile.ANTHOPHORA ROBBI, new species.Female.?Almost exactly like A. atroalba Lepeletier, but all the hairon outer side of hind basitarsus black, that on outer side of hindtibia silver white. It very likely deserves only subspecific rank, butthe male may show more difference
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Habitat.?Pekin, China, May 7, 1901 (M. L. Robb). U. S. NationalMuseum.Type.?Cat. No. 13542, U.S.N.M.ANTHOPHORA RETUSIFORMIS, new species.Male.?Length about 15 mm., black, the occiput, thorax above,pleura, metathorax, and first two abdominal segments with brightorange-fulvous hair, not mixed with black; a little black hair onvertex; hair of face pale yellowish, of lower part of cheeks long andwhite; abdomen shining, feebly and sparsely punctured, the thirdand following segments with black hair, apical margins of second to
no. 1818. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 2?COCKERELL. 263fourth with whitish hair much as in A. atro-alba female, but lessdistinct; extreme sides of fifth and sixth segments with white hair;sides of apical half of venter with much light hair; legs dark, includingtarsi; outer side of tibse with ferruginous hair; anterior tarsi withlight hair, but middle and hind basitarsi with much black hair,especially behind, though they have light hair at apex, and the smalljoints have light hair, except a black tuft on each side of last joint ofmiddle tarsi; the ornamentation of the middle tarsi is as in A. retusa(not as in A. monacha), except that the posterior black brush of thebasitarsus is longer and more or less evidently pointed apically, andthe apical black brush seems smaller; face-marks yellow, includingclypeus (with no hasal spots), lateral marks (filling space betweenclypeus and eye, and with an upward process ending a little awayfrom orbit), narrow supraclypeal band, labrum (except the two basalspots) and the rather flattened scape in front; mandibles whollyblack; eyes green; flagellum wholly dark; third antennal joint aboutas long as the next three united; tegulse piceous; wings moderatelydusky; third s. m. broader above than second; mesothorax withdense small punctures.Habitat.?Pekin, China, April 20, 1901 (M. L. Robb). U. S.National Museum.A. retusa Linnaeus is wide spread and very variable, and I was atfirst inclined to consider the present insect a variety or subspecies.Type.?Cat. No. 13543, U.S.N.M.ANTHOPHORA MELANOGNATHA, new species.Male.?Runs in Friese's table to A. senescens Lepeletier, exceptthat it is about 16 mm. long, and has quite the aspect of A.fulvitarsisBrulle. It differs from A. fulvivarsis as follows: Mandibles whollyblack; a black band down each side of clypeus; lateral face-markswidely separated from supraclypeal band; yellow area on scapesmaller; apical abdominal segments with hair-bands like those onsecond and third (thus rather combining the features of fulvitarsisand senescens) ; apical spines ferruginous. The legs are practicallyas in fulvitarsis . From A. senescens (specimen from Cairo compared)it is easily known by the pale bands on the second and third abdomi-nal segments, the whole ornamentation of the basal half of theabdomen being exactly as in fulvitarsis. The face markings arepractically as in senescens, but the third antennal joint is shorter.Habitat.?Pekin, China, May 14, 1901 (M. L. Robb). U. S.National Museum.Type.?Cut. No. 13543, U.S.N.M.I give a table for the separation of the above species:Hind margins of abdominal segments with violet bands 1.Hind margins not so colored 2.
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1. Hair on outer side of hind tibise creamy white . ...A. zonata wkiteheadi Coekerell.Hair on outer side of hind tibise red A. zonata buruensis Coekerell.2. Very large robust species, 18-21 mm. long, abdomen very hairy, not banded orspotted 3.Not so large, abdomen not thus hairy, usually banded 4.3. First two abdominal segments with pale fulvous hair, those beyond with dark.A. hilgendorfi Coekerell.Abdomen covered with pale grey hair; tibial scopa bright fulvous.A. venerabilis Coekerell.4. Abdomen with lateral white spots of hair, or interrupted bands.A. robbi Coekerell.Abdomen not so marked 5 :5. Hair of thorax above orange-fulvous, not mixed with black or fuscous.A. retusiformis Coekerell.Hair of thorax above mixed with black or fuscous 6.6. Hair of hind tibiae red above and black below; of thorax above red; tegulse red(Khow Sai Dow Mountain, 1,000 feet, Lower Siam, Feb. 1899, W. L. Abbott).A. sp. (probably new, but condition too poor to describe).Hair of hind tibise above not red 7.7. Second abdominal segment with much erect pale hair 8.Second abdominal segment without such hair 9.8. Mandibles (male) with a large yellow spot A. fulvitarsis Brull6.Mandibles (male) without a yellow spot A. melanognatha Coekerell.9. Tuft of hair behind wings clear strong fulvous; flagellum red beneath.A. savignyi Lepeletier.Tuft of hair behind wings pallid, not distinctly if at all fulvous 10.10. First abdominal segment covered with pale hair; face without light markings.A. eversa Coekerell.First abdominal segment not so covered; clypeus with light markings. ...... 11.11. Larger; flagellum dark A . confusa Smith.Smaller; flagellum red beneath A. savignyi Lepeletier, variety.