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long, slender, thickly setose. Wings broad, basal half of subcosta thick- 

 ly scaled, dark brown, subcosta indistinct, the third vein sparsely scaled 

 and uniting with costa at the basal half. Halteres yellowish. Coxas 

 and femora basally yellowish, the distal portion of femora and tibiae 

 fuscous yellowish, tarsi fuscous; claws long, slender, the pulvilli short. 



Type. Cecid. 1379, N. Y. State Museum. 

 Schizomyia ipomoeae Felt. 



Examples of the larvae having been received, it is briefly 

 described as follows : 



Larva, length 3 mm., rather stout, yellowish or yellowish orange. 

 Head small; antennae rather long, stout; breast-bone well chitinized ; 

 bidentate, tapering and somewhat obsolescent. Skin coarsely shagreened. 

 Posterior extremity broadly rounded. 



New and Little-known Western Bees. 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL. 

 Cbelynia cusackae sp. nov. 



$ . Length about g l /> mm., parallel-sided, of the usual form ; blue- 

 black, very faintly metallic, the prothorax and area of metathorax shin- 

 ing green, the pleura and posterior- side of middle femora also green ; 

 pubescence long and coarse, entirely black ; antennae dark, the flagellum, 

 except near base, faintly brownish beneath; tegulae black; wings strong- 

 ly dusky, brown-stained, the nervures fuscous; spurs of hind tibiae 

 stout and black. The sculpture is as in other species; the venation also 

 is normal, except that the second s. m. is very long, very much longer 

 than the first. The b. n. goes a little basad of t.m. Related to C. 

 paronina Ckll., but easily known by its dark color, narrower form, 

 paler nervures and longer second submarginal cell. The ventral surface 

 of the abdomen is brilliantly green and purplish. 



Hab. 'Cusack Ranch, Wet Mountain Valley. Colorado, 

 June (Cocker ell}. The species is dedicated to the memory of 

 Mrs. M. E. Cusack, an excellent botantist, who was resident at 

 the type locality ; her herbarium is now incorporated with the 

 collections at Kew. Type in British Museum, where it has 

 been for the last twenty years, unnamed. 



Osmia Integra Cresson. 



West Cliff, Colorado, May 19, 1889 (Cockerel!); Brit. Mu- 

 seum, $ . This species must be rare, as T have not taken it in 

 recent years. According to the characters given by Robert- 



