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Legs wholly rufous, or fulvous ; (^ with first joint of flagellum long. 



Head and thorax fulvous fuiva, Smith. 



Head and thorax black. 



Abdomen chestnut-red patricia, Ckll. 



Abdomen black • cucurbit arum, Ckll. 



X. prumos(j, I have from Pennsylvania and New York ; ihence to 

 Mesilla is a wide range. X fiilva ranges from Lower California to 

 Arizona and southward to Puebla, Mexico ; its range seems not to touch 

 that oi prninosa. X. ipomace is only known from Carlinville, Illinois, 

 where Mr. Robertson found it and X.pruinosa visiting Iponiixa paiidurata. 



The above was written June 21. On June 22, at about 7:45 a. m., 

 the flowers of C. pereimis were open, and about twenty minutes collect- 

 ing yielded : X.pruinosa, 5 c^ ; X. patricia, 2 $ , \ ^ ; X. cucurbitarum, 

 4 (^ , 4 % . The honey bees were also visiting the flowers, but seemed 

 disconcerted to find fat Xenoglossse at the bottom of them. In one 

 flower was found an Agaposteinon texanus, which, it may be remarked, 

 is not so blue with us as Cresson's Texan types, though otherwise 

 agreeing. 



The females of X. patricia and X. cucurbitaruin resemble the males 

 in size and appearance ; the scopa of the hind legs is fanly abundant, 

 but loose ; it is distinctly plumose. In both, the rufous hind tibiie, on 

 the outer surface, exhibit many small black spots. The legs of cucur- 

 bitaruin $ are suffused with black at the base, to a variable extent. In 

 patricia V the clypeus and labrurxi are rufous, the mandibles are rufous 

 without at base, and present a reddish-orange streak on the distal halt, 

 this being separated from the rufous by black. In cucurbitaruin ? the 

 clypeus is black, with sometimes an obscure reddish or yellowish spot near 

 the anterior edge, its outline not clearly defined ; the labrum also is 

 black, reddish at its upper median border; the mandibles have an 

 obscure yellow s[)Ot near the base, and sometimes a streak as \\\ patricia. 

 The hairs surrounding the pygidium in both species are bright orange- 

 fulvous. 



Podalirius cleemis, n. sp. — $. Length, 12 mm., stout, black. 

 Head broad, with long but not very dense pubescence, gray and black 

 mixed, hairs on cheeks beneath long and white. Clypeus (except broad 

 black lateral borders), a narrow supraclypeal band interrupted in middle, 

 triangular lateral face-marks, labrum (except a black boss on each side 

 next to upper margin), and a large patch on outside of mandibles,pure white. 



