THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 695 



Family COLLETID^E. 



Moderate sized, long-tongued, hairy bees, burrowing in sandy places. 



COLLETES Latr. 



C. armatus Patt. New Jersey (Ashm) ; Lucaston IX, 9 (Hk) ; visits flow- 

 ers of "Compositse" (Vk). 



C. americanus Cress. Camden Co. VII, 3 (Fox) ; Clementon X, 4 (Hk) ; 

 Manumuskin IX, 15 (Dke) ; Anglesea IX, 3 (Coll). 



C. compactus Cress. Chester (Dn) ; Lahaway III-V (Sm); Clementon 

 IX, 5 (Hk) ; Lucaston, DaCosta, Manumuskin, all V (Dke). 



C. inaequalis Say. (propinqua Cress.) Camden Co., Atco (Fox); Ches- 

 ter IV, 20, Lahaway III, 26-IV, 20 (Coll); Clementon IV, V (div); 

 Manumuskin IV, V (Dke). 



C. insgqualis ferrugineus Swenk. Hainesport III, 26 (Dke); Riverton 

 (Vk). 



C. validus Cress. Staten Island IV (Ds) ; New Brunswick, Jamesburg IV 

 (Coll); Camden Co. V, 18 (Fox); Riverton IV, 3 (Dke); Clementon 

 V, 3 (Hk). 



C. brevicornis Rob. North Woodbury (Vk). 



C. nudus Rob. Anglesea VIII, 8, on white umbellifer (Vk). 



C. rufithorax Swenk. Westville VI, Clementon V, VI, Manumuskin V, 

 Ocean City VI, Avalon VI, Anglesea V (Swenk); Prospertown VI 

 (Coll). 



C. thoracicus Smith. Clementon VI, 6 (Hk) ; Brown's Mills V, 21. Cape 

 May VI, 7, large numbers on blossoms of holly (Dke). 



Family STELIDID^. 



STELIS Panz. 



S. foederalis Smith. (Melanostelis nitida Cress.) New Jersey probably 

 (Ashm). 



S. lateralis Cress. (Protostelis) Camden Co. V, 18 (Fox). 

 S. austral is Cress. Wenonah VII, 22 (Haim). 



S. foxi Ashm. (Melanostelis) Camden Co. VII, 12 (Fox); a mss. name 

 and probably the same as "australis" Cress. 



Family MEGACHILIDyE. 



MEGACHILE Latr. 



These are leaf-cutter bees that make their nests in burrows, forming 

 cells of semi-circular pieces of leaves. Thy are solitary, and the pollen 

 carrying structures are on the under side of the abdomen. 



