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Extracted from: Melissodes pinguis Cockerell, 1897 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 24, p. 158
Appears as Melissodes pinguis in this excerpt.
A peculiar little species, known in the male by the dark wings with a broad second submarginal cell, black pubescence of dorsum of thorax; pale yellow clypeus, labrum and spot on mandibles; and appressed fulvous pile on abdomen; first joint of flagellum at least half as long as second.
Female. – Length about 8 mm., stout, black. Head and thorax with short, thin, white and mouse-gray pubescence, mixed with black. Abdomen with short fulvous pile, like velvet, but appressed. Head broad, shining, with large punctures, especially large and close on the clypeus, which becomes subcancellate; pubescence of face sparse, grayish, some black hairs between the antennae, vertex with black hairs, occiput and cheeks with short white hairs; antennae reaching to the tegulae, wholly black, first joint of flagellum larger than the two following together. Thorax shining, with large close punctures; dorsal pubescence thin and black, more dense on scutellum; a very few short pale hairs intermixed, sides of metathorax and pleura with grayish white hairs; tegulae black.
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