1901] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39 



SALICACE.E. 



Sali.v sp., at Mesilla, May 4, 1897 (Ckll.). The following bees at the <f 



flowers: Prosopis tnesiilce Ckll., 9; Pci'dita salicis Ckll., $ $ ; 



Halictits siibobscunis Ckll., 

 Salix sp., at Las Vegas Hot Springs, 1899 (Wilmatte Porter). Hym. : 



Andrcna portcrtc Ckll. , 9 . 

 Sa/i.v sp., at Beulah, Sapello Canon, May 3oth (Wilmatte Porter). Hym.: 



Andrcna sapcllonis Ckll.; f /a/ictus annaticeps Cr. , 9; Osmia 



fa c eta Cr., . 



CHENOPODIACE.l-;. 



Atriplc.r cancscens (Pursh) At Mesilla Park, April sgth, a honey-bee 

 i. I pis tncllifcra lignstica Spin.) was observed busily working on 

 the flowers. 



NYCTAGINACE^E. 



Abronia titrbinata Torrey Lep. : Synchlce lacinia Geyer, Mesilla Park, 



April 29th (Ckll.). 



Wedclia incarnata (L.) Anthophora inacnlifrons Cress., Las Cruces, 

 August 23rd (Townsend). 



RANUNCULACEyE. 

 Pteonia (cultivated) Hym. : Agapostemon te.ranus Cress., Las Vegas 



(W. Porter). 

 Delphinium scopuloruiu Gray Hym.: Boinbus nevadensis cressoni Ckll. ; 



B. appositus Cress. 



CRUCIFER.-E. 



Dithyrca ^'is/izcnii Engehn. Lep. : Synchlce lacinia Geyer, Mesilla 

 Park, April 25th (Ckll.). 



Erysimiun axpennn (Nutt.) Hym.: Halictns angnsiior Ckll., Rio Rui- 

 dosa (Townsend). 



J.t'pidiitin castwoodice Wooton Hym.: Augochlora neg lee tula Ckll., La 

 Cueva, Organ Mts. (Townsend). 



Sophia andrenarum Ckll., ined. (The common species with yellow flow- 

 ers in the Mesilla Valley, confused at first with Sisymbrium canc- 

 scens, later with S. halictorum, but quite distinct. True Sophia 

 halictorum has very inconspicuous flowers, and occupies, in the 

 main, a higher zone, coinciding with the lower part of the Larrea- 

 zone] (i.) Mesilla, April i2th ; Hym.: Andrena salicinella Ckll., 

 %, , in numbers, hovering over the plants and alighting occasionally: 

 AugochloraneglectulaQs\\.\ Halictus pectoraloides Ckll., 9; H- 

 siibobscurns Ckll., J; H. psciu{t>tt\<;i(/iiris Ckll. var. ; Dipt.: Teta- 

 nops polita Coq., det. Coq.; Chlaropx assitnilis Macq., det. Coq. 



(2) Mesilla, April 22iid ; Hym.: Agapostemon te.ranus Cress., 9. 



(3) Mesilla Park, April 2yth ; Hym.: Apis mellifera ligustica Spin. 



