Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.
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FEMALE. — Length 10 mm.; eyes parallel; foveae narrow, occupying only about one-half of space between eyes and ocelli; vertex rather narrow, lateral ocelli separated from its hind margin by a space only slightly greater than their diameter; cheeks about equal to eyes in width; clypeus slightly convex, projecting about one-third below suborbital line, with fine and quite sparse punctures, especially in median area; punctures on vertex and cheeks very fine and quite close, face below ocelli obscurely substriate; malar space not evident; process of labrum short and rather broad, somewhat rounded; basal segment of flagellum longer than segments 2 and 3 combined, median segments only slightly longer than broad; pubescence of head and thorax rather short, quite dense, entirely pale ochraceous; scutum rather dull, punctures quite shallow but rather close anteriorly, interspaces only slightly exceeding their diameter, somewhat more sparse posteriorly, scutellum more shining, punctured about as scutum; pleura dull, tessellate, with a few obscure shallow punctures below; triangle of propodeum densely tessellate and dull, not sharply delimited; corbicula not well-developed, dorsal hairs rather short, without an anterior fringe and with scattered interior hairs; trochanteral floccus imperfect, hairs rather short in general; legs dark, the more apical tarsal segments becoming ferruginous, pubescence entirely ochraceous, including hind tibial scopa; hind spurs relatively straight, dull testaceous; wings somewhat yellowish, veins and stigma testaceous, 2nd submarginal much shorter than 3rd, receiving 1st recurrent near center; tegulae brownish; abdominal terga smooth, apical margins only very slightly impressed, with a distinctly yellowish-hyaline apical rim, discs shining, deeply, distinctly and rather coarsely punctate, punctures rather sparse on basal segment, closer on following segments, with interspaces two or three times diameter of punctures; discal pubescence very short, entirely pale, suberect, segments 2-4 with narrow, bright ochraceous, apical fasciae, that on the 2nd rather widely interrupted, and slightly so on the 3rd segment, apical fimbria somewhat brownish.
TYPES. — Holotype: Female, Raleigh, N. C., April 8, 1929 (T. B. Mitchell, on Vicia). Paratype: 1 F, Raleigh, April 19, 1923 (Mitchell, on Vicia caroliniana).
Even though considerable collection on the host plant has been done since the collection of these two type specimens, no others have been found. Both specimens are in the author's collection.
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