dense but short - Macropis (7).

Posterior legs slender; polliniferous

hair on femora, tibiæ, and plantæ

dense and very long - Dasypoda (8).

Three submarginal cells to the wings.

Abdomen truncated at base - Colletes (1).

Abdomen ovate.

Abdomen entire at apex; maxillary

palpi as long or longer than

the maxillæ - Andrena (4).