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Apliis valeriane Cowen. 



Beulah, N. M., July 27, on Valeriana ; very abundant. 



Apterous form slaty black, including leys, etc.; more or less distinct whitish 

 spots on back. One specimen of an olive-black Necttirophora was found with 

 them. 



Apliis rociada* n. sp. 



Rociada, N. M., August 8 ; very numerous on leaves and stems 



of Delphinium sapellonis. 



Apterous 9: small, broad and swollen, very shiny, bright orange-scarlet to 

 dark red. No obvious cauda ; nectaries very short, but larger than broad, black 

 at ends; bead blackish ; antennae blackish, third joint paler; legs brown. Mounted 

 examples are pale ferruginous, slightly over 1A mm. long; nectaries about 150/'. 

 long, slightly bulging toward the bases. Antennal joints in/'.; (4.) 200, (5) 170. 

 (6a.) 80, (6b.) 340. Younger example shows (1) 70, (2.) 60, (3.) 320, (4.) 130, (5a.) 

 80, (5b.) 290. 



A very distinct and beautiful species; I brought some alive from 

 Rociada,* and established a colony at Beulah. 



Aphis atroiiitens n. sp. 



Rociada, N. M., August 10; abundant on Vieia aff. pulchella. 



Winged f: shining black; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma colorless or 

 barely tinged with yellow; legs pale greenish ; nectaries long ; beak hardly reach- 

 ing middle coxse ; cauda rather long, slender. Measurements in /'. : nectaries, 300; 

 Cauda, 100; anterior tarsus, 130; antennal joints (3.) 280 or more, (4.) 250-280, 

 (5.) 240-260, (6.) 140. (6b.) 230. Joint 3 witb few sensoria, 4 with none. (In A. 

 epilobii, a black species found in the same region, joints 3 and 4 are crowded with 

 large sensoria.) 



Apterous form plump, gray-black, shining; legs very pale yellowish, the tarsi, 

 end of tibiae, and apical two-fifths of hind femora, black ; antennae with joints 3 

 and 4 whitish ; nectaries black. 



Young, dark gray. A. atroiiitens reminds one of the English A. 

 fabte, which is said to be identical with A. rumieis. The characters 

 of the antennae readily distinguish J., atronitens from A. rumieis. 

 In mounted specimens the bicoloration of the legs is conspicuous. 



Mjzus phenax n. sp. 



Beulah, X. M. ; very abundant on flowering racemes of Hamulus 

 lupulus var. neomexicanus, first found by my wife July 28. Attended 

 by Formica. 



Winged $?: body about 2 mm., wings about 3 mm.; mounted specimens (in 

 balsam) are dark brown, with dark red eyes, but in life the colors are as follows: 

 head and thorax black ; abdomen dull green, witb lateral black spots, and dorsum 



* Rociada is just over the hill from Beulah. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. MARCH, 1903. 



