94 PSYCHE. [August, ,900. 



Stage IV. Head rounded, scarcely bi- thorax and joints 12-13 smaller; on 12, i is 



lobed, lower than prothorax, whitish, dotted absent, ii is large and sticky like iv of 9, iii is 



with black over the sides and in a double rudimentary. Blackish gray; ground color 



streak on the vertex; width about i mm. blacki.sh brown, denseljf frosted with round 



Body short and thick, angular from the ele- flattened, white granules, the prominent 



vations, but without processes. Tubercle i tuliercleh white and an angular white marking 



and ii are high white cones with short, stiffs in a double dorsal line, along tlie angular 



setae but with no elevation of the body ; iv is lateral outline and subventrally, most distinct 



a larger cone with similar seta (i.e. iii of joint on joints 12 and 13. Thoracic feet pale; 



5, iv of 6 to 9), the tubercle radiately spinose plates large, but colored and sciilpturetl like 



on its shaft and ari.sing from a slight lateral the body. All covered with fragments of 



elevation or swelling of the body; before and petals, adhering to the sticky tubercles. The 



a little below it is a smaller smooth white spicules on the sticky tubercle.s are short 



cone bearing seta iii; v and vi remote, simi- c\'lindrical rods with blunt tips. The larva 



lar to iii; upper vii smaller, below iii sub- hibernated in this stage, full grown appar- 



ventrally ; lower vii and viii are prominent ently. Bred at Washington, DC, from eggs 



on the edge of the venter. Spiracle on the obtained Sept. 21. Earlier broods will give 



dorsal aspect of the slight bulge that bears the moth the same season, 



tubercle iv on joints 5 to 9. Tubercles of Larvae fed on flowers of Aster. 



NOTES ON THE NESTING OF ing the absence of the Anthidium, it took the 



ANTHIDIUM PAROSELAE CKLL. liberty of going into the nest, but it did not 



stay long After the Anthidium had finished 

 I do not know how long this bee had been provisioning her nest, she brought some wool 

 working before I discovered it, but to my f''°"' ^''^ stems of plants and filled up the en- 

 knowledge it carried honey and pollen into trance. When the bee had gone I dug up 

 its nest for two days. The nest was a small "^<^ "<=s' =»"'' found that it had stored its pro- 

 round hole bored in the hard sand. The bee visions in wool, the same as that with which 

 brought very small loadsof pollen, and would '' 'i'"' closed up the nest, 

 remain in its nest about 45 seconds each time ; Mmuic Ne-vberry. 

 it took from three to five minutes for it to 



collect each load, and when it returned it [The above observations, made by Miss 



would sail about its nest a short time before Newberry, a student of the N. M. Agricul- 



entering. Once during the absence of the tural College, are of interest, because nothing 



Anthidium a specimen of Spkecodes fortior whatever has been reported heretofore re- 



Ckll. entered the nest and stayed about half garding the nesting of any of the insects 



a minute, and then flew out very swiftly, as mentioned. It is perhaps unsafe to assert 



if it were afraid the Anthidium would return that the Sphecodesand Hoplopasites are par- 



and doit some harm. I had noticed from the asitic in the nest of the Anthidium, but the 



beginning that another bee (^Hoplopasites facts point to such a conclusion. Theobser- 



froductus var. siibitiber Ckll.) lingered vations were made at Mesilla Park at the end 



around the nest, and would frequently go to of May, and I am responsible for the identi- 



the entrance and look in. After a while dur- fication of the insects. — 7'. D. A. Cockerell.lj , 



