November .S,;] SUPPLEMENT TO PSYCHE. 9 



V. New Species of Bees. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Phileremulns, n. gen. — Resembling; ;i very scales become dense onI_v on the distal 



small /-'////('rt';««5, but ivith onlv one siibmar- margins of the segments, thus piodiicing 



ginal and tu'odiscoidal cells. Marginal short. light hands. 



Biidy-covering, where pre-^ent, consisting of H<ib. — L:'.s Crnces, N. M., 3S00 ft., on 



scales. Tvpe, /'. vi^ilans, n. sp. santiv ground, visiting flowers of Pectin pap- 



Phileremulus vigilans, n.sp. — $ 3^ mm. /Sow occasionally, 



long, dull black but appearing griseous front Philereraulus nanus, n. sp., 5 34 mm. long, 



the while scales. Head somewhat broader Differs from the J of P. vii^ilaiia a^ follows: 



than long, covered with white scales, which The head is a little larger, the mandibles 



give the vertex a dull grey appearance, but more rufous, the face black, neaily free from 



are so dense on all the lower part of the face scales except at sides, the clypeus not white 



as to make it beautifully snow-white. Ocelli with scales, the vertex is very broad, aniennae 



large and distinct. Eyes nearer togetiier shining rufous, basal half of scape blackish, 



below than above. Antennae further apart first joint of flagellum as long as the second 



than the distance of either from the orbiial and third combined; last joint of antennae 



margin; biown, the scape short, funicle obliquely trinicate. wbe'eas in P, vii^rlau^ it 



large, flagellum with the second joint slmrter is hardly noticeably so, one side being merely 



than the thiril, and ihe third shorter than the soniew hat flaltened. 



first. Mandibles simple, their ends rufous. Marginal cell extremely small. Abdomen 



Thorax rather small, quite thickly covered rufous, not so distinctly fasciate. Apex black, 



with white scales, metathorax with a T-shaped Fourth segment with three suffused black 



area black because free from scales. Scutel- spots on its distal margin, the space between 



lum with a longitudinal groove. them slightly golden. 



Tegul.ae shining- yellovvish-rnfons. Wings Hub — Santa Fe, X. M., 7,000 ft., on sandy 



hyaline, iridescent, nervures dai k brown. ground. 



Slignia litlle-developeil ; marginal cell short. This remarkable genus is allied to that 



obliquely subtruncate at tip, which joins section of /"//'/<';•<';««.« represented by /*. /*«/- 



coslal margin ; submarginal large, pynloi m, chellns, which is found in Santa Fe in August, 



longer than marginal, appendiculate : first The reduced venation is doubtless adapted lo 



discoidal lanceolate, second discoidal wedge- its short rapid zigzag flight, which is inore 



shaped, appendiculate. The wing area en- like that of some of the parasitic hymenoptera 



closed in cells is less than that beyond. than of an ordinary bee. The specimens 



Legs with the femoia black except the desciiUed were only caught with the greatest 



pale rufous kriees, tibiae and tarsi rufous, difficulty, although both species (especially 



with white scales. Tibial spurs white. viiriUnn) were fairly abundant where I'oimd. 



Abdomen elongale, somewhat depressed, The habit of both species is to fly very rapidly 



black with the distal marginsof the segments about half an inch above the surface of the 



pale rufous, and the whole griseous iVom the sand, frequently settling for an instant only, 



coating of white scales. Venter like the dor- To caich them with a net is almost iinpossi- 



sum. Tlie abdomen ends in a narrow sub- ble, and I was obliged to watch with my 



acute rufous process. finger iti mv mouth, and secure them by 



5 3 mm. long. .^nlennae rather rufous suddenly putting the wet finger-point on 



than brown. Abdotnen rather broad, consid- them when they settled. Thus I caught the 



erably shorter than in the (T , clear rufous, two females of A «rt««s at Santa Fii on Aug. 



the last two segments blackish-rufous. The 10 and 14. They were on a sand bank in 



