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I'SYCHE. 



[December, 1901 



between the dorsal spines on the first three 

 abdominal segments. 



On the 8th abdominal segment is a single 

 median stout short spine, not so long as 

 those in front, but deeply cleft or forked at 

 the end, each fork acute and diverging from 

 its mate. Around the base of the spine are 

 about sixteen pale flattened circular smooth 

 warts. 



Suranal plate subtriangular, apex much 

 rounded, with about a dozen solid thick 

 black tubercles, each giving rise to a short 

 minute seta ; they are mostly collected around 

 the end of the plate. A lateral reddish line. 

 Thoracic legs stout, pale, black at the sutures 

 between the joints. Abdominal legs reddish 

 below, dark on the planta. Under side of 

 the body speckled with fine oval setiferous 

 pale warts. Anal legs large, their sides tri- 

 angular in shape, bright yellow, the lower 

 edge or plantar region shining jet-black. 

 Spiracles pale sienna brown. 



Length 77 mm.; thickness 15 mm. 



Described from a blown specimen 

 from Natal, received from Staudinger 

 and Bang-Haas. 



Urota sinope Westwood. 



Larva. — Described from a blown ex- 

 ample from Natal received from Messrs. 

 Staudinger & Bang-Haas. Head large round 

 smooth, surface dull brown-black, not pol- 

 ished, unarmed. Body cylindrical, neither 

 humped or conspicuously tuberculated. A 

 prothoracic plate on each side bearing a pair 

 of pale setae which are short, slender, arising 



from an inconspicuous flattened tubercle (not 

 easily detected in a blown example) situated 

 as are all the thoracic and abdominal ones on 

 the hinder edge of the segment. On abdomi- 

 nal segments 1 to 7 are two widely separated 

 rows of minute flattened tubercles giving 

 rise to a pair ol slender flattened setae which 

 are pale at the base and darker toward the 

 tip ; there is also a lateral row (there are in 

 all as in the family in general 3 rows of tu- 

 bercles on each side of the body). The setae 

 are in groups of from 2 to 5, each seta arising 

 from a separate minute secondary tubercle; 

 the setae are about \ as long as the body is 

 thick. On the 8th abdominal segment there 

 is no median tubercle, but 2 groups of 4 rather 

 long setae each arising from minute separate 

 bases; they are white, slender, curved; each 

 group situated not far from the median line. 

 On the side of the body below and behind the 

 spiracle, though close to it, is a group of 3-4 

 setae. On the 9th segment are 3 sets of sim- 

 ilar setae arranged as on the 8th segment ; 

 those on the sides below the spiracles are 

 longer tlian those above. Spiracles black. 

 Thoracic and abdominal legs blackish. Ana> 

 legs of moderate size. Suranal plate with 

 three groups of rather long setae on each 

 side; the plate rounded, surface convex and 

 a little corrugated. Base of abdominal legs 

 (1-4) reddish. The skin rough, finely gran- 

 ulated. Thoracic segments 2-3 and abdomi- 

 nal ones with a transverse band of coarse pale 

 yellowish flattened granulations, smooth, the 

 band on the side widening and surrounding 

 the spiracles. Length 55 mm., thickness 9 

 mm. 



SOME INSECTS OF THE HUDSONIAN ZONE IN NEW MEXICO.— VI. 

 HYMENOPTERA APOIDEA. II. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



The following, taken on the top of the 

 Las Vegas Range at the end of June, 



1901, are additional to the previous list. 

 {Psyche, Feb. 1901, p. 163.) 



Bombus iippositiis, Cresson. i 9 . 



Anthophora cardui, Ckll. \ $ . \ was 

 surprised to find this at such an altitude. 



