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Catalina Island, California {A. Davidson). This gives the species a very 

 wide range in the south-west, and while it must be confessed that the 

 specimens are not all alike, I am unable to detect anything more than 

 individual variation. 



Megac/ii/e mendica., Cresson. — 5- Length about 12-133^ millim. ; 

 abdomen shovel-shaped ; ventral scopa orange, including last segment ; 

 white on basal half of second segment. 



Gallinas River, at Las Valles, N. M., Aug. 6 {Porter and Cockerell). 

 Another is from flowers of Verhascum t/iapsus, Rio Ruidoso, White Mts., 

 N. M., 6,900 ft., July 23 [Townsend). The scopa of the latter is full of 

 orange pollen. 



The New Mexico specimens agree with an Illinois J from Robertson. 

 M. mendica looks like a small M. lattviafins, having the same form and 

 general coloration. In latimanus the scutellum is covered with pale 

 ochreous hair, and the mesothorax broadly bordered with the same, so 

 that the black hair is confined to the central part. In tnendica the light 

 hair of the head and thorax is white, and the scutellum and mesothorax 

 (except the margins of the latter narrovvlyy are thinly clothed with black 

 hair. In both the thorax, though closely punctured, is shining. In 

 latima7ius tlie vertex is mostly, or wholly, clothed with pale hair, in 

 inendica it is clothed with black. In both the basal joint of the hind 

 tarsi is broad, and clothed on the inner side with orange hair. The 

 mandibles are similar in both, except that they are less produced in 

 ine?idica. In mendica the first recurrent nervure enters the second sub- 

 marginal cell much further from its base than the second does from its 

 apex ; this is not usually the case in latimanus. 



M. mendica resembles M. relativa in the colour and arrangement of 

 the hair on the head and thorax, but relativa is a narrower bee, with a 

 conspicuously narrower face. The abdominal bands in relativa are 

 yellowish, in mendica they are white. 



The Mediterranean Flour Moth, Epliestia kuehniella, has been sent 

 to me recently from Seattle, Washmgton, and Honeoye Falls, N. Y. As 

 far as I know, this is the first time the pest has been recorded from the 

 State of Washington. I have specimens of matted flour and larvse from 

 Arthur, Ont., Canada. In each case reports are made that the insect is 

 doing serious damage to the milling business by matting and clogging up 

 spouts and elevators with flour. The moth seems to be slowly and 

 steadily spreading over the U. S. and Canada. 



W. G. Johnson, New York. 



