146 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW BEES FROM NEW MEXICO. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, N. M. AGR. EXP. STA. 



Fodalirius phe?tax, n. sp. — $. Length about 9 mm.; appearance 

 o^ P. viaculifrons (Cress.), with the same white pubescence (mixed with 

 black on hind part of mesothorax and front part of scutellum), the same 

 clear wings (but the second submarginal cell is less narrowed above), and 

 the same legs, except that the tarsi are wholly dark. The black antennae 

 are considerably longer, when the head is thrown back they reach to 

 postscutellum ; scape with a broad white stripe ; first joint of flagellum a 

 little shorter than third. Eyes a beautiful dark lavender or gray-blue, 

 instead of green. Clypeus (except the narrow black anterior edge) a 

 transverse supraclypeal band, lateral face-marks (triangular, with the 

 upper side deeply excavated), labrum (except the usual pair of spots), 

 and a large patch on mandibles, pure white, shining, like porcelain. 

 Abdominal bands more or less interrupted in the middle ; fifth segment 

 without a band ; apex with two spines. 



Hab. — College Farm, Mesilla Park, N. M., April 13, 1898, at flowers 

 of plum. Allied to P. albatus and P. maciilifrons. 



A?idrena subaiistralis, n. sp. — $. Length about 10 mm.; black, 

 the abdomen with a hardly noticeable greenish lustre. Pubescence 

 rather abundant, but not hiding the surface, dull white, on upper parts of 

 head and thorax pale dull ochreous. Head broad, facial quadrangle 

 broader than long ; face hairy ; clypeus strongly and closely punctured, 

 with no median smooth line ; frons strongly striated ; antennse black, 

 brown at tips ; mandibles rufescent at ends, with a strong inner tooth ; 

 process of labrum broad, truncate at end. Mesothorax minutely tessellate, 

 with rather shallow and sparse punctures ; enclosure of metathorax 

 triangular, poorly defined, minutely granular, feebly wrinkled at the base. 

 Legs dark, quite densely pubescent, the pubescence on tarsi more or less 

 tinged with fulvous. Tegulse black ; wings yellowish-hyaline, apical 

 margin broadly smoky, but not conspicuously darkened ; nervures and 

 stigma honey colour. Abdomen oval, convex, tessellate and very 

 minutely punctured ; first and second segments with some white hair at 

 sides ; third to fifth segments with very thin bands of long white hairs, 

 that on the third very broadly interrupted ; anal fimbria bright orange- 

 fulvous. 



(J . — Similar, but smaller and narrower ; flagellum wholly dark ; 



