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Extracted from: Melissodes nevadensis sp. nov. Cresson Wheeler's Rep. Geogr. Expl. W. 100th Merid., p. 726
Appears as Melissodes nevadensis in this excerpt.
Male. – Black; densely clothed with a long ochraceous pubescence; clypeus, labrum, and spot on base of mandibles white; mandibles with pale fulvous stripe to tips; antennae reaching beyond metathorax, black; scutellum densely pubescent; the pubescence on legs more yellowish, shading in brown on the tarsi; abdomen clothed with short, black pubescence, that on first segment entirely ochraceous; a band on base of second segment, another near apex, and also near apex of third and fourth segments, of short, dense, pale, ochraceous pubescence sometimes there are no indications of a band near apex of fifth segment; venter fringed with pale pubescence. Length 6.5-8 lines.
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