138 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Hah. — Las Cruces, N. M., at flowers of Helianthus animus, 

 Sept. 22nd (Ckll.) ; at flowers of Verhesina encelioides, College 

 Farm, Sept. 11th (Ckll.) ; also three others, taken at Las Criices 

 by Prof. Townsend, Aug. 5th. This resembles il/. aimgcnia, but 

 is a little larger, the clypeus more covered, nervures darker, and 

 the apex of the abdomen is broadly submarginate, sometimes 

 entire. 



What I have considered to be typical menuaclia (always with 

 the yellow spot on mandibles) does not occur in the Mesilla 

 Valley, but is common at Santa Fe (in August, at flowers of 

 Argemoue and Grinddia) ; and was also taken by me at La 

 Junta, Colo., at flowers of Lepacliys, and in Fremont Co., Colo. 

 It is almost exactly like aurigenia, but uniformly a size larger. 



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ANDEENID^. 



Andeena aliciarum, n. sp. 



? . Length about 10 mm. Black ; head, thorax, and legs with 

 short rather dense grey pubescence, feebly tinged with ochreous dor- 

 sally. Head ordinary ; face about as broad as long, not densely 

 pubescent ; clypeus pale lemon-yellow, with the sides black, almost 

 exactly semicircular large cream-coloured lateral marks, filling the 

 area between the clypeus and the eye. Mandibles dark. Basal process 

 of labrum prominent, deeply emarginate, so as to appear as a pair of 

 rounded tubercles. Flagellum brown beneath from the fourth joint to 

 the end, the first joint longer than the two following combined. Sides 

 of vertex with large sparse punctures, irregularly placed. Mesothorax 

 coarsely and very closely punctured ; enclosure of metathorax rugulose, 

 bounded by an impressed line. TeguljB rather dark testaceous, but 

 transparent. Wings yellowish-hyaline, apical margin broadly dusky, 

 nervures fuscous, stigma dull fulvous ; second submarginal cell small, 

 higher than long. Pubescence on inner side of basal joint of tarsi 

 blackish fuscous. Abdomen dullish, very closely punctured, the hind 

 margins of the segments broadly testaceous. Apical hair-bauds on 

 segments 3 to 5, very dense on 5 ; second segment with the band 

 represented by lateral patches. The under surface of thorax and 

 abdomen, hind tibiit), and sides of metathorax, carry a great quantity 

 of bright yellow pollen. 



Hah. — Orgara Pass, N. M., on the east side, Sept. 29th, 1896. 

 This resembles A. aliciiB, Piob., in having a yellow clypeus in the 

 female, though the yellow is more reduced than in alicice ; the 

 punctures of the abdomen in allcia are at most very feeble and 

 sparse, quite different from aliciarum. It also resembles A. piil- 

 chella, Eob., but that is larger, and different in several ways. 

 There is, further, some degree of affinity with A. aureocincta, 

 Ckll., especially with regard to the abdomen. 



MesUla, N. M., U. S. A., Nov. 26th, 1896. 



