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tinguished from these by the colour of the legs and the sides of the 

 thorax. 



(2.) Anthidium occidetitale, Cress. — Described from specimens 

 taken in New Mexico by Dr. Samuel Lewis is 1867. Not observed 

 by me. 



(3.) Anthidium gilense, n. sp. — $. Length hardly 10 mm.; 

 robust, with long wings ; black, with lemon-yellow markings. Head, 

 mesothorax and scutellum with close, extremely large punctures, 

 closest on front, largest on scutellum. Edge of mandibles with small, 

 short, but quite distinct, teeth. Tubercles forming an oblong, sharp- 

 edged lobe. Hind edge of scutellum straight, sharp, overshadowing 

 metathorax. Second recurrent nervure going considerably beyond end 

 of second submarginal cell. Abdomen of the subglobose type, shining, 

 with large punctures, close enough to produce a subcancellate effect. 

 Small spot on each side of clypeus ; broad lateral face marks, extending 

 only as far as level of antennae, where abruptly truncate ; continuous line 

 on vertex, lateral thirds of front margin of mosothorax broadly, ends of 

 tubercles, four spots on scutellum (the middle ones large and elongate), 

 all yellow. Cheeks, pleura and shining posterior truncation, black. 

 Tegulae rufous, with an elongate yellow mark. Wings fuliginous, with a 

 hyaline spot just beyond and partly in the third discoidal cell, and a 

 much smaller one just beyond apex of second submarginal. Base sub- 

 hyaline. Legs ferruginous, anterior femora blackened, a yellow stripe on 

 anterior and middle tibial, a yellow spot at extreme base of hind tibias. 

 First abdominal segment with an oblong yellow spot on each side. 

 Second with a band, narrowly interrupted in middle, and produced into a 

 short tooth on each side behind. Third to fifth segments with a pair of 

 large quadrate yellow marks, and a small spot on each extreme side. 

 Apical segment black. Ventral scopa white. Pubescence of legs, thorax 

 and head white, but very little of it ; a small but conspicuous patch 

 behind the wings. 



Hab. — West Fork of Gila River, N. M., July 17, one specimen 

 [C H. T. Town.send]. Of the N. M. species it most VQSQmhXes pudicum, 

 but it is quite distinct. 



(4.) Anthidium pudicum, Cress. — Five at Santa Fe, N. M.: two on 

 flowers of Grindelia squarrosa, Aug. 2 and 3, in company with Heriades, 

 Melissodes, Megachile and Podalirius ; two resting in hole in adobe wall, 

 Aug, 2. A $ was submitted to Mr. Fox, and returned marked /«<//V«;;/ / 



