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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



rior margin of the clypeus, labrum and mandibles (except 

 tips) yellow; flagellum dull red, with a black line above, 

 second joint about half the length of the third. Thorax black, 

 immaculate, opaque, densely punctured, clothed with white 

 pubescence, rather thin above and dense beneath ; wings hya- 

 lin, faintly dusky at tips ; legs black ; underside of the fem- 

 ora and tibia? of the anterior and intermediate legs, the tips of 

 all the tibia?, the anterior tarsi, the middle and posterior 

 metatarsi and the apical portion of the succeeding joints yel- 

 low. Abdomen black, opaque, finely punctured, clothed with 

 short griseous pubescence, longest on apical segments ; the 

 apical margins of the segments are dull reddish brown. Venter 

 dull red, the apical segment and the basal portion of the first 

 black ; the broad apical margins of the other ventral segments 

 dusky, merging into large dark spots on the lateral portion. 

 Habitat, Berkeley, Cal., March 18. One specimen, col- 

 lected upon Itaitiiiinifiix ciilifornica. 



13. XOMADA opposiTA Cress. California. Unknown to me. 



14. NOMADA VINCTA Say. Berkeley, Cal, May. Two speci- 

 mens. Previously recorded from the Eastern, Middle and 



Western States. 



15. XOMADA LEPIDA Cress. Berkeley, Cal., February, March 



and April. Twenty-six males, collected upon Ranunculus 

 calif or a icd and Bra^ica rtnnpcfffrix. Many of these specimens 

 have the scape entirely black instead of yellow in front, and 

 the legs generally have more black than Cresson's type. Pre- 

 viously recorded from Colorado, Illinois and Texas. 



16. XOMADA MELLIVENTRIS CreSS. 



9 Differs from the male in that the pubescence on the fact- 

 is much shorter; the third joint of the antenme is about one- 



half the length of the fourth. 



In all of my specimens the first segment of the abdomen is 



black at the extreme base, both above and beneath, the two 

 black spots mentioned by Cresson sometimes fusing with this. 

 Sometimes there is a little black on the apical margins of 

 segments 2-4. 



Berkeley, Cal., March 15 to April 18. Ten specimens, col- 

 lected upon liraxx'n-a cdiiijKxfrix and liannn<-nhix raiifontica. 



17. XOMADA RUBRA Prov. Fresno, Cal. (H. O. Woodworth), 



April 28. Six females collected upon Ewhwholl-Ja calif or n'n-a 

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