3 IS THE CA.NA.DLA.N ENTOMOLOGIST. 



THE BEE GENUS DIALICTUS. 



BY J. C. CRAWFORD, JR., WEST POINT, NEBR. 



Table for the separation of the species : 



Black lustrans, Ckll. 



Greenish or bluish. 

 Tegulse dark. 



Bluish; abdomen with metallic lustre; face narrow.. TAeodori, n. sp. 

 Greenish ; abdomen without metallic reflections ; face 



broader Occident alls. 



n. n. for anomalus. 



Ckll. (non Robt.). 



Tegulas testaceous anomalus, Robt. 



D. anomalus., Robt. Specimens from Dr. Graenicher, collected at 

 Milwaukee, were examined. 



D. occidentalism n. n. for D. anomalus, Ckll. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, VII, 126 (Jan., 1901). 



This differs from the true anomalus in its larger size, more densely 

 punctured mesothorax, finer and more numerous lines on the metathorax, 

 dark tegulae, abdomen distinctly punctured, quite closely on the second 

 segment ; denser pubescence on the abdomen nearly concealing the 

 surface on the apical segments ; apical margins of abdominal segments 

 testaceous. 



D. Theodori, n. sp. — 9- Head and thorax blue, face closely and 

 rather coarsely punctured and with sparse white pubescence j antenna? 

 dark ; flagellum obscurely ferruginous beneath toward apex ; mesothorax 

 rather sparsely and finely punctured and finely tessellate ; metathorax 

 rugose on base, ruga^ not reaching apex ; tegulae dark ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures yellowish ; legs dark, apical joints of tarsi ferruginous ; inner 

 spur of hind tibiae with 4 long teeth ; pubescence of legs white ; abdomen 

 black, thinly clothed with white pubescence, more dense apically, and 

 with metallic reflections ; apical margins of segments testaceous. 



Type. — One specimen (Las Vegas, N. M., May 29, 1902), on 

 Convolvulus incanus. Miss Pearl Hitchcock, col!. 



Dedicated to Prof. Cockerell, from whom it was received. 



