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Antennae mostly dark brown, with the exception of the scape which is 

 yellow anteriorly ; legs blackish with the exception of the anterior tibiae 

 in front where they are yellow, and the tarsi which are mostly yellow. 



O 71 - Practically the same as the 9 differing only in ornamentation, 

 having in addition to the yellow marks of the 9, a yellow mark on each 

 side of the clypeus, a yellow labrum this member being brown in the 

 9 and a yellow stripe on the anterior aspect of the middle tibiae. The 

 abdomen is immaculate. 



Type. 9 , Coll. Agl. Expt. Sta., New Haven, Conn. 



Type. 8, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Pa. 



Type locality, Poquonock, Ct. 



One specimen, the 9 type was collected by the writer in the 

 type locality June 77, 1905. Two males were taken at Hyan- 

 nis Point, Mass., July 4, 1904, by Mr. C. W. Johnson ; thus, 

 according to our present records, this is clearly an Alleghanian 

 species. 



Notes on Some Bees Collected by Mr. H. L. Viereck 

 in New Mexico in 1902. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



The bees treated herein are from the expedition sent out by 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1902, and are 

 the property of that institution. 



Xylocopa californica arizonensis (Cress.) var. a. 



$ . Clypeus with a cream-colored spot; clypeal keel re- 

 duced ; first abdominal segment with hardly any hair. 



Alamogordo, May 30. 



Anthophora petrophila (Ckll.). 



Alamogordo, May 3,1 9 New to New Mexico. The 

 hair of the vertex and thorax above is white, not mixed with 

 black. 



The male, not hitherto described, has been found by Dr. 

 Davidson at or near L/os Angeles. In my table of Micantho- 

 phora (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxxii.) it runs to eight, and 

 runs out because the fifth and sixth abdominal segments appear 

 black, contrasting with the others because lacking the white 

 tomentum. Thus it appears to run close to 9 A. flcxipcs, but 



