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Wash., May 11th and 23rd, and June 24th — mostly females. 

 Cresson's description, though stated to be of a male, applies to 

 the female. The male has the mesothorax all black, the scu- 

 tellum with only a pair of yellow spots, the post-scutellum black, 

 the yellow spots on metathorax smaller, and the black bands on 

 the abdomen broader. The basal portions of the legs are largely 

 black, where in the male of N. superba they are red. The 

 flagellum of male erfwardsii is black above and red beneath, and 

 this is the only red about the insect. 



Nomada metadata, Cresson, 1863. — Mr. T. Kincaid takes at 

 Seattle and Olympia, Wash., May 23rd-June 25th (the last date 

 being that of a Seattle male) , a species which agrees with macidata, 

 but is 10 millim. long or slightly over. Eobertson, in Illinois, 

 found the insect to not exceed 8 millim. in either sex ; but I have 

 a female from Franklinville, Pa., May 19th, identified as macidata 

 by Mr. Fox, which is quite as large as the Washington form. 

 The mandibles are bidentate, and the last abdominal segment in 

 the male is bifid, as Eobertson indicates. 



Sphecodes dicJirous, Smith, 1853. — Mr. T. Kincaid sends me 

 very numerous examples from Olympia, Wash., mostly taken in 

 June, the dates running from May 25th to July 2nd ; also a few 

 from Seattle, Wash., one as early as April 17th; also one or two 

 from Pasco, Wash., May 25th; and a somewhat larger and 

 darker individual (female) from Comano I., Wash., collected by 

 N. L. Gardner, May 25th, 1896. It would be interesting to 

 ascertain whether the Comano I. specimens are uniformly of 

 rather large size and dark colour, constituting a local race. 



Bombus nevadensis, Cress. — Mescalero, Indian Agency, N. M. 

 (Otis)* 



Bombus ternarius, Say. — One from Seattle, Wash., April 3rd, 

 1897. {T. Kincaid.) The pubescence of the head is mostly 

 black. 



Bombus sonarus, Say. — Forks of Euidoso Creek, N.M., July 

 30th. (C. M. Barber.) Also taken by Prof. C. H. T. Townsend. 

 New to the United States. 



* The Mescalero Indian Agency, on Tularosa Creek, N. M., is an inter- 

 esting locality for bees. In addition to the species mentioned in the body of 

 this article, Mr. C. M. Barber took the following at the Agency in July, 1898 : 

 — Sphecodes mandibularis, Cress., Agapostemon texa/nus, Cress., Halictus 

 ruidosensis, Ckll., H. forbesi, Eob., H. meliloti, Ckll., H.p>erdijficilis, Ckll., 

 H. ligatus, Say, Andrena apacheorum, CkU., Prosapis trideritula, Ckll., 

 Heriades carinata, Cress., Melecta miranda, Fox (about nests of Podalirius 

 occidentalis, on which it is evidently parasitic), Podalirius occidentalis, 

 Cress., P. cardui, Ckll. (the second specimen known), Megachile fortis, 

 Cress., M. fidelis, Cress., M. pugnata, Sa t y, Anthidium maculosum, Cress., 

 Osmia faceta, Cress, (new to N. M.), Melissodes erenulaticornis, Ckll., M. 

 tristis, Ckll., Xenoglossa pruinosa, Say, Clisodon terminalis, Cress., Monu- 

 metha borealis, Cress., Bombus marrisoiii, Cress., Apis mellifera, L. 



