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(appears as Melissodes suavis in this excerpt)
Female – Black: bead, thorax, and base of abdomen clothed with a dense pale ochraceous pubescence; clypeus nearly nude, shining ; mandibles near tips and flagellum beneath rufo-testaceous ; tegulae pale fulvous ; wings hyaline, nervures black, second submarginal half the length of first, the third truncate at tip and suddenly narrowed one-half towards marginal ; legs clothed with pale pubescence, that on tibia and tarsi fulvous, long and dense on posterior pair; a spot on each side of first abdominal segment, the second to fifth, except narrow apical margins, clothed with a short, appressed white pubescence, that on the fifth tinged with ochraceous, the apical margin of the segments nude, smooth, and polished; venter brown, the segments fringed with pale, the apex with fulvous pubescence. Length .45 inch
Melissodes suavis Cresson 1878 Proc. Ac. Sci. p. 210
(Appears as Melissodes suavis in this excerpt)
According to the description, falls in this group, among the smaller species. Cresson says that the abdomen appears white, with four narrow shining black bands, these bands being the apical margins of the segments, Apex with fulvous pubescence.
Eucera suavis Dalla Torre 1896 Cat. Hym. 10. p. 247
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