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Extracted from: Mitchell, T. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States, I. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 1-191.
FEMALE-Length 5 mm.; entirely black;
head somewhat broader than long; eyes slightly convergent below; clypeus evenly convex;
mandibles with a small, inner, subapical tooth,
brownish-testaceous, tip somewhat reddened;
antennae black basally, flagellum more brownish-piceous above, brownish-testaceous beneath, segments 1 and 2 slightly broader than
long, and length hardly equalling breadth in
following segments; lateral ocelli subequally
distant from eyes and each other; face below
ocelli shining, punctures deep and distinct,
fine and well separated, the interspaces being
slightly greater than diameter of punctures,
those between antennae and eyes being somewhat obscured by white pubescence; supraclypeal area very minutely and rather closely
punctate, punctures on clypeus minute and
rather close along upper margin, becoming
somewhat coarser and quite sparse toward
apical margin; vertex between eyes and ocelli
shining, minutely and quite sparsely punctate; hind margin somewhat shining, only
very obscurely rugose, cheeks above rather
dull, the sculpture very fine and obscure, becoming smooth and shining on lower surface;
wings hyaline, with the usual three submarginal cells, veins and stigma brownish-testaceous; tegulae testaceous-hyaline; legs piceous,
tarsi more or less testaceous; scutum and scutellum smooth and shining, deeply and distinctly punctate, punctures rather widely separated over central portion of scutum, becoming close only along narrow anterior margin,
(those on scutellum largely obscured by the
pin in the type specimen) ; pleura dull, rather
coarsely rugose; dorsal area of propodeum
completely and rather coarsely rugoso-striate,
lateral faces dull, irregularly reticulate below,
becoming somewhat more finely roughened
above, posterior face irregularly and rather
finely reticulate; abdominal terga shining, very
finely but deeply, distinctly and rather closely
punctate, punctures on basal tergum rather
evenly distributed across central area of disc,
well separated but not sparse, those on terga
2 and 3 somewhat closer, covering most of
discs, those on 4 minute and obscure but close
in general, apical margin of all terga rather
narrowly impressed, becoming obscurely testaceous-hyaline toward the rims.
DISTRIBUTION-Rhode Island; June.
No specimens other than the type have
been seen.
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