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fourth ventral segment shows a minute notch. The interval between 

 the apical teeth of abdomen is minutely black-haired. It is evidently 

 related to C. modesta Smith, differing in the small size and the color 

 of the legs. 



Hob. Boulder, Colorado, July 13, 1908 (Paul M. Dean}. 



Coelioxys sayi novomexicana n. subsp. 



9. Larger, length about iiJ/2 mm.; legs, including the whole of 

 femora and trochanters, bright ferruginous red; tegulae bright red; 

 clypeus strongly notched in the middle. 



Hob. Las Cruces, New Mexico, June (Cockerell). This is 

 the New Mexico insect hitherto reported as sayi'; it is at 

 least a good subspecies, perhaps a species. Two specimens are 

 before me, bearing numbers 955 and 167. 



Coelioxys soledadensis n. sp. 



$ . Length about 10 mm., black, the general surface bare, but the 

 white markings due to pubescence very conspicuous. The face is 

 covered with white hair; mesothorax with the white band in front 

 broadly interrupted ; a conspicuous but short band in scutello-meso- 

 thoracic suture ; mesopleura margined with white ; first three abdominal 

 segments with broad apical bands, but no hair in the transverse depres- 

 sions; first segment white at sides, and part way along the edge 

 of the basin ; fourth segment with a rather weak band in the basal 

 depression, and the apical band very broadly interrupted in the middle ; 

 fifth with a broad basal band, slightly interrupted in the middle, and 

 only minute lateral patches to represent the apical band; sixth with a 

 very broad basal band. Head and thorax strongly and very densely 

 punctured; clypeus broadly and deeply einanjinate in the middle; eyes 

 sage green, with short hair; flagellum dark ferruginous beneath; 

 scutellum with no median process, the lateral spines long and moderately 

 curved ; tegulae dark rufo-fuscous; wings reddish, stigma ferruginous, 

 nervures fuscous; legs reddish-black, the tarsi distinctly reddish; spurs 

 ferruginous; abdomen rather closely punctured; fifth segment with dis- 

 tinct but short lateral spines ; sixth short, with short lateral spines, 

 and four short apical ones, the upper the shortest, the lower broad and 

 subtruncate ; apex of fourth ventral segment with two short dentiform 

 projections. Resembles C. grindeliac Ckll., but has shorter hair on the 

 eyes, differently shaped apical teeth on the abdomen, &c. 



Hab. Soledad Canon, Organ Mts., New Mexico, at flower 

 No. 38, Aug. 15 (C. H. T. Townsend}. Very likely para- 

 sitic on Megachile soledadensis Ckll., which was taken on the 

 same day at the same place, though at a different flower. In 

 the banding etc., it closely resembles the Megachile. 



