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dorsulum. Scutelluni shining, sparsely punctured along tbe middle. Superior 

 disc of metathorax defined by a strong ridge, the pits quadrate, shining. En- 

 closure funnel shaped, the bowl irregularly roughened and produced, the neck 

 perfectly smooth, highly polished. The rest of posterior face somewhat reticu- 

 lately roughened, subopaque. Wings tinged with brownish, nervures and stigma 

 dark brown almost black. Tegulse black. Face, cheeks, pleurae and legs in 

 greater part with pale whitish pubescence. Thorax and head dorsally covered 

 with dark ochreous pubescence mixed with stronger black hairs. First abdominal 

 segment with a tuft of ochreous hairs on the sides and a few delicate whitish hairs 

 on the convexity. The surface polished, punctures small, distinct, closely arrang- 

 ed. Apically the punctuation is finer nnd closer. Punctuation of second segment 

 uniformly like that of apical margin of the preceding. The rest of the seg- 

 ments indistinctly finely sculptured. Pygidium with appressed dark brown hair. 

 A border of fine white appressed pubescence on suture of first abdominal segment 

 and apical margins of rest of the segments excepting pygidium. 



Type, Coll. A.cad. Nat. Sciences, Phila. Type, locality, Beulah, 

 N. M. Two 9 9 , Aug. 25, 1899 (W. P. Cockerell), paratype end 

 of Aug. 1899 (T. D. A. Cockerell). In sculpture and structure 

 much like preceding species. 



'Colletes bigelorise Ckll. (W. P. Cockerell). 



PROSOPIDJE. 

 Prosopis aiitemiata Cress. 



One $ . One % , June 29, 1902, Roripa nasturtium (Viereck). 



Prosopis basalis Sm. 



One % , July 28 (T. D. A. Cockerell). Three 9 9 , hill above 

 Beulah, Aug. 19 (W. P. Cockerell), June 29, 1902, Ceanothus fend- 

 leri (W. P. Cockerell), Aug. 13, 1900 (W. P. and T. D. A. Cockerell). 



* Prosopis ruribeckire subsp. ruidosensis Ckll. 

 July 28, Aug- 18 (T. D. A. Cockerell;. 



"Prosopis trideus Ckll. 



Two $ $ , July 28 (T. D. A. Cockerell). 



Prosopis varifrons Cress. 



Five I $ , Beulah and Dailey Canon, Aug. 10 (T. D. A. and 

 W. P. Cockerell). W. of Beulah, Aug. 23 (W. P. Cockerell). 

 End of Aug. (T. D. A. Cockerell). Aug. 17, 1901 (H. Skinner). 



Prosopis rugosula Ckll. 



One $ , June 29, 1902, Roripa nasturtium (Viereck). The length 

 of this specimen is 5.5 mm., and the markings are lemon color. 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. JANUARY, 1903. 



