fHE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 277 



SOME BEES EROAI WASHINGTON STATE. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, BOULDER, COLO. 



The State of Washington is remarkable for the possession of two very 

 different faunae : that of the damp coast region, and that of the inland 

 plains and valleys.* The bees of the coast region have become fairly 

 well known through the collections of Professor T. Kincaid and others, 

 but the inland bee-fauna has as yet yielded to science only a fraction of 

 its riches. On May 25, 1896, Professor Kincaid collected at Pasco, and 

 obtained a remarkable series of specimens, including new species of 

 Collet es, A?idre?ia (two), Noinada (two), Calliopsis, Osfma^j Anthophora 

 and Eviphoropsis. The results of this single day's work will ever be 

 memorable in the history of Apidology, and from this and other miscel- 

 laneous collections, we may fairly assume that the region contains a whole 

 new fauna. Not long ago Mr. Titus passed tlirough Pasco, and found it a 

 desolate-looking place ; the region is not one of luxuriant vegetation, but 

 represents the northern extension of the arid desert or semidesert, 

 carrying with it an essentially southern bee-fauna, as shown by Calliopsis, 

 Dasiapis, JVoniia, etc. 



When Mr. A. L. Melander went to Washington State, I hoped that 

 he would in due course give us an account of the interior country, and 

 make known its real possibilities in the way of Hymenoptera. This he is 

 beginning to do, for the other day I received from Mr. Viereck a box of 

 bees, transmitted to him by Mr. Melander, with the request that they 

 should be worked up. Although I was more than occupied in other 

 ways, they were so interesting that I could not do otherwise than examine 

 them, and I give here part of the result. 



Eviphoropsis cineraria (Smith). 

 Yakima, Wash., April 21, 1905. $. Previously known only from 

 Vancouver L 



Anthophora. 

 The following were taken by Eldred Jenne at N. Yakima, Wash., in 

 1903 : A. Crotchii, Cr. (May 24); A. si?nillima, Cr. (May 9); A. urbana, 

 Cr. (June 26); A. Washingtoni, Ckll. (May 27); A. ignava, Cr. (May 

 23); A. sodalis, Cr., both sexes (May 27); and A. Edwardsii, Cr. 

 (^lay 9). 



*See American Naturalist., Jan., 1899, pp. 41-42, 



iOsmta Pascoensis, CklL, discovered at Pasco, was taken by meat flowers of 

 Cardials, at Boulder, Colorado, July 3, 1905. 



August, igo6 



