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pels concealed to the last in the bottom of the flower, their tips not 

 above the level of the bases of the stamens ; bracts and sepals fre- 

 quently divided. Hym : Apis mellifera ligustica Spin., very many, 

 April 3oth, May 3rd ; Agapostemon splcndens Lep. var. 9 (new to 

 N. M ). April 3oth ; Colletes sp.; Halictns sisymbrii Ckll., 9 , April 

 3oth ; Halictoides fimbriatus (Cress.), 9 var. (new to N. M.), April 

 3oth ; Philanthus aff. albopilosus, May 3rd ; Sp/iccodes aff. fortioi , 

 May 3rd ; Dipt.: Compsomyia macellaria Fabr., April 3oth. Lep.: 

 Pyrameis cardui L., April 3Oth ; Anosia stigosa Bates, April 3oth. 

 All near Mesilla Park. 



Fallugia micrantha n. sp. or var. Flowers small, 23 26 mm. diam.; 

 carp-ls protruding, forming a green blunt cone, longer than the 

 stamens, which are small, with small anthers ; sepals rounded-trun- 

 cate, with a green acuminate appendage about 2 mm. long, occa- 

 sionally with two appendages ; bracts linear, entire and simple, 

 zY^-^Yz mm. long ; leaves and stems like acuminata. Hym.: O.vy- 

 belus sp ; Apis mellifera ligustica Spin. ; Phi/anthus aff. albopilosus. 

 Hemip.: Phymata fascia/a Gray. All near Mesilla Park, May 3rd. 

 When first I found F. micrantha I thought it might be a dimorphic from 

 of F. paradoxa acuminata, tending toward a dioecious condition, but 

 against this is the fact that both forms fruit abundantly ; and while some 

 plants of acuminata were observed to have less fruit than usual, others 

 were covered with fruit. Neither is the difference described owing to any 

 difference in the age of the flowers ; it is equally apparent in the old 

 flowers and in the unopened buds. I therefore treat F. micrantha as a 

 species, at least pending any proof which may be offered to the contrary. 

 Wooton's acuminata was intended to include all the Fallugias of this re- 

 gion, the differences in the flower not having been noticed ; but one of 

 Wooton's original specimens, in his herbarium, and also Torrey's figure 

 which he cites pertain to the form here designated acuminata. 

 Potentilla thurberi Gray. Hym.: Bonibus monardc? Ckll. and Porter; 

 B. prunellce Ckll. ; Megachile for/is Cress. ; Colletes gilensis Ckll., 

 ; Vespa occidentaiis Cress. All taken on the Rio Ruidoso by C. 

 H. T. Townsend. This Potentilla has dark red flowers. 

 Rosa neome.vicana Ckll. =fendlcri Wats, (part), not of Crepin. The 

 insects here recorded were found on the flowers of this rose in Me- 

 silla ; the roses had been planted, and do not grow wild anywhere 

 in the vicinity. On May 4, 1894, I collected the bees Prosopis nic- 

 si//"Ck\\., "b, Agapostemon sp., 9, and Diadasia apacha Cress. 

 On April 27, 1898, Mr. C. M. Barber collected the bees Apis wclli- 

 fera L., Augoclilora ncglectula Ckll., Halictus artnaliceps Cres^., 

 H. sisymhrii Ckll., //. oleosus Ckll., I'msopis mcsillts Ckll., and 

 Ceralina nanula Ckll., Rosa ncoinc r/< ana grows wild in the Sacra- 

 mento Mountains, N. M.; it is closely allied to R. woodsii* 



* Kasa nfoinc.iica.iui was collected in plenty by Prof. E. O. VVooton at Cloudcroft, N. 

 M.; I have also seen it there. It differs from sayi by the leaflets cuneate at base, teeth 

 simple or slightly compound ; from ifoodsii by the much taller stature (olten 6 ft. high or 



