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 8-9 mm.; lateral ocelli slightly nearer margin of vertex than to each other; cheeks subequal to eyes in width, posterior margin subcarinate; longer side of basal segment of flagellum equal to segment 2, median segments somewhat longer than broad; mandibles rather robust, entire; wings faintly yellowish, becoming slightly infuscated along outer margin and in marginal cell, with the usual three submarginal cells, 2nd slightly broader than 3rd anteriorly, veins testaceous to piceous, stigma somewhat more reddish, basal vein very slightly basad of, or interstitial with, transverse median; tegulae shining between fine and rather deep punctures, these close along inner margin, becoming very sparse toward outer margin; posterior margin of scutellum rounded, without definite median impression; front coxae not spinose; apex of hind tibiae with a row of 6 rather short, fuscous, seta-like bristles; face laterally and below reddish-testaceous, eyes completely and rather broadly encircled, broad median area above antennae, another surrounding ocelli and posterior two-thirds cheeks, black, the clypeal suture narrowly black; antennae testaceous; tubercles and tegulae yellowish-testaceous; pronotal collar, mesopleura above, scutum and scutellum largely red, propodeal triangle reddish on each side; pleura below and along the narrow anterior and upper margins, scutum, anteriorly and along mid-line, metapleura entirely, and propodeum other than triangle, black; coxae largely black, but legs otherwise testaceous large part, mid and hind femora more or less piceous basally, spurs pale yellow; discs abdominal terga yellowish-testaceous, tergum 1 piceous or black basally, apical impressed areas of 1-3 more ferruginous, that of 4 more yellowish-hyaline; sterna largely yellowish-testaceous, apical margins yellowish-hyaline, vertex and face above antennae coarsely rugose, cheeks somewhat more finely so, supraclypeal area and clypeus very finely and quite densely punctate, lateral areas of face below with coarse, deep and close punctures; scutum, scutellum and mesopleura coarsely rugose, pleura below becoming somewhat more distinctly punctate; propodeum very finely and densely rugose, triangle somewhat shining and smoother below, very finely rugose medially, coarsely so along upper margin; abdominal terga minutely and quite closely punctate toward base, punctures becoming somewhat more widely separated and more minute on apical impressed areas, only the narrow apical rims entirely impunctate; pseudopygidium transverse, extremely short, forming the broadly truncate, apical margin of tergum 5, densely clothed with suberect, silvery tomentum; face with quite elongate, conspicuous, erect, fuscous hairs, cheeks with more whitish but erect pubescence; thorax with erect, more yellowish pubescence above, this becoming more fuscous below, whitish on propodeum; abdomen dorsally very obscurely and finely pubescent, hairs becoming more elongate and conspicuous apically, elongate but very fine and rather sparse on sternal plates, more evident along the impressed apical areas; apex of sternum 5 with a rather broad and dense tuft of elongate, curved and convergent, more or less fuscous hairs on each side of mid-line.
DISTRIBUTION � British Columbia to New York and Nova Scotia, in April.
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Extracted from: Lovell J.H., & Cockerell T.D.A. (1905). The Nomadine and Epeoline Bees of the Southern Maine.
Female. Length 8mm.; ferruginous and black. Head and thorax rather finely punctured; pubescence on cheeks, pleura and sides of metathorax white, on face and disc of mesothorax fuscous. Mandibles except tips, labrum, clypeus, spot on spura-clypeus, a narrow stripe around the eye, and antennae ferruginous; area about insertion of antennae, about ocelli and occiput black. Prothorax black;mesothorax trilineate, the middle band rather broad; scutellum largely red, post-scutellum black; metathorax entirely black; pleura black, red spot beneath the wings, another anteriorly on each side of the forelegs; tegulae and tubercles ferruginous. Legs ferruginous, marked with black much as in the preceding species, Wings nearly hyaline, slightly dusky at apex; basal nervure very little basad of transverse medial, much less than in the preceding species; second submarginal cell along the radius nearly as long as second transverse cubital nervurel; third submarginal along the radius fully one half as long as second submarginal abdomen oblong-ovate, ferruginous, without maculae, the apical margins fuscous or blackened; posterior megin of black area on basal half of segment straight; pygidial plate broad and rounded.
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