4 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, 



Prunus (cultivated plum). (i) Mesilla, 1897 ; Andrena fracia Casad and 

 Ckll., , March 24; Halictns ainicus Ckll., 9, April 4; liombus 

 sp., Thee la halesits and Diabrotica i2-punctata April isth, the last 

 mentioned eating the pollon. (2) Mesilla Park, April 13-14, 1898 ; 

 Hym . : Andrena prunorum Ckll.; A. fracia, Csd. and Ckll., many; 

 .-/. monilicarnis Ckll. ; .-/. sa/ieine//a Ckll. ; Anthophora macnli- 

 frons Cress. ; Halictus pruinosus Rob ; Bomboinelecta <?//;-<<// Ckll. ; 

 Paraiidrena andrenonles (Cress.) ; Halictus annaticcps Cress. ; 

 ProsQpismesifleeClal}., 1 ; Melecta maculata Cress. ; Halictuidr* 

 sp. ; Collet,'* ^',n>to>ii Ckll.; Lep.: Synch/a- laiinia Geyer, many ; 

 Dipt.: Bibio pa/Hpes Say, det. Coq., also Erisfalis, I'oluceHa and 

 Ceria. 



Prunus (wild plum). Hym.: Jlombns fen/arins Say ; B.ju.vtus Cress., 

 Megachile pollicaris pereximia Ckll , ; Andrena sapettoiiis Ckll.; 

 ^4. z//V/V/^ Smith ; F<:'.9/><r inaculata L. All at Beulah May 301!) 

 (Wilmatte Porter). 



LEGUMINOS.i:. 



Prosopis glandulosa Torrey. Hym.: Prosopis inesillcz Ckll., ^J; /'. 

 asinina Ckll. and Casad., ; Perdita f.vc/uniai/s Ckll ; . Is/niiead- 

 iella prosopidis Ckll. All at Mesilla, May 7, 1897. 



Parosela scoparia (Gray). Hym. : Megachile sidalcece Ckll., Mesilla., 

 August 23, 1897. 



Parosela formosa (Torrey). Hym.-: Centris /anosa Cress., ^, several at 

 Little Mtn., Mesilla Valley, May ist (Ckll.). 



Psaralea tenuiflora Pursh. Hym.: Ccclio.i ys gi/eiisis Ckll., 9, j\fetni:- ' 

 ejcilis Cress., 9- Gallinas R. at La Cueva, August 6th (Ckll., \\". 

 Porter). 



Petalostemon candidus (Willd.) The following were all taken at the 

 flowers at Las Vegas, 1899. Dipt.: /'hysoceph/a ochrciceps Bigot- 

 det. Coq., July 21. Hym.: Andrena argemonis Ckll., 9, July, 

 August (W. Porter, Ckll.); Anfh.ophora cardid Ckll., ^ , August 

 nth (VV. Porter); Anthidium perpictum Ckll., 9, August nth 

 (W. Porter); A.porteree Ckll., ^ , August iith (W. Porter): Mega- 

 chile manifesto Cress., 9, August (\V. Porter); Bombiis fervidus 

 Fabr. ; /?. scutcllaris Cress.; Cerceris vena/or Cress., July 2ist. 



Medicago sativa L. (alfalfa). The following were taken at Las Vegas 

 1899: Megachile cleomis Ckll., 9; M. latimamts Say, 9; JyW/.v- 

 sodesagilis anrigetiia Cress., 1\ Prosopis messillce Ckll., 9; . / 

 thophora bomboides neome.ricana Ckll., ^, ; A. urbana a/ani<>.\, 

 Ckll., ; . -///.v inellifera ligustica Spin. 



more), and small solitary flowers; from blanda by the infrastipular spines normally in 

 pairs, and the solitary flowers ; from aciculata (Ckll. described as blanda. var ) by similar 

 characters. The flowers of neomexicana are sometimes two or three together, but then 

 only one fruit seems to mature. The fruits are small, scarlet, oblong. Sepals entire. 

 with more or less foliaceous tips. Stipules entire, but glandular-margined. 



