Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1962 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 152.
FEMALE—Length 10 mm.; mandibles very long and slender, simple, tip of one nearly reaching base of other when closed; basal segment of flagellum not much longer than broad, shorter than segment 2 even when measured along the longer side; head almost entirely ferruginous, obscurely yellow on lower inner orbits, closely punctate, rather finely below antennae and on cheeks, somewhat more coarsely so above; front coxae not spined; legs entirely ferruginous, spurs yellow; scutum rugoso-punctate, largely red, with a pair lateral yellowish lines (probably discolored); scutellum pale ferruginous, quite deeply incised medially, shallowly rugoso-punctate; pleura red, with a median, transverse, yellowish band, finely rugoso-punctate; metapleura red; propodeum red laterally and in triangle, posterior surface yellowish; tegulae very closely and rather coarsely punctate; wings subhyaline, narrowly infumate toward apex, basal vein nearly interstitial with transverse median; basal abdominal tergum smooth, punctures exceedingly minute and obscure, entirely red; 2nd and following terga very finely and closely punctate, punctures invading to some degree the depressed apical margins, these somewhat yellowish-hyaline, but discs red, tergum 2 with a pair of conspicuous, widely separated, yellow maculae; pseudopygidium of normal size.
DISTRIBUTION—Georgia.
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