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20. Although essentially a vernal species, there is a female 

 specimen collected at West Point, September 19, 1903, on Aster 

 by Mr. J. C. Crawford, which may indicate a feeble fall brood. 

 During latter June and July it flies principally at Petalostemon 

 violaccns and P. candidus, Rosa pratincola, Symphoricarpos 

 occidcntalis, Asclcpias sp. and Melilotus alba. 



2. Calliopsis coloradensis Cresson. 



Lincoln, West Point, Gordon, and Harrison, Nebraska, fly- 

 ing from August 29 to October i, principally at flowers of 

 Solidago. 



3. Calliopsis verbenae nebraskensis Crawford. 



Lincoln, Neligh, and Glen, Nebraska, July 4 to August 7, at 

 flowers of Verbena. 



Genus FANDRGINUS Nylander. 



i. Pamir gi mis malvastri n. sp, 



< Length 8 mm. ; clypetis evenly convex, very sparsely and finely 

 punctured, and, together with the inner edge of the mandibles, bright 

 chrome yellow, the rest of the head shining black, finely and rather 

 sparsely punctured, closely so on the vertex. Antennae black, the 

 flagellum obscurely brownish beneath. Dorsum of thorax shining, 

 very finely and sparsely punctured, the basal area of metathorax 

 nearly smooth. Tegnke testaceous. Wings clear, the nervures brown- 

 ish basally but becoming black toward apex of wing. Legs mostly 

 yellow, the coxae, trochanters and more or less of the bases of the 

 femora black, the black covering most of the posterior face of the 

 anterior and intermediate femora. Abdomen shining, finely and 

 sparsely punctured, the first segment subimpunctate medially, the 

 posterior margins of segments 1-5 deeply depressed, the depressed 

 margins of 1-3 markedly testaceous. Front, cheeks, dorsulum and 

 pleura, legs and tip of abdomen with long, erect, thin, white hair. 



?. Length 9 mm. ; similar to the < but the clypeus and whole of 

 mandibles black, the legs black with only the anterior knees and a 

 stripe down the front of anterior femora yellow, the pubescence every- 

 where denser and tinged with ochreous, abdominal segments 1-4 de- 

 pressed and only first two feebly testaceous. 



Types: Pair taken in copula, Warbonnet Canon, Sioux 

 County, Nebraska, June 13, 1901, on Malrastnon (M. Cary). 

 Paratypes : Type lot, 3 9 ; Jim Creek, Sioux County, June 



22, 1901, on Mah'astntui, 6 $ . 



