﻿THE 
  INSECTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY. 
  695 
  

  

  Family 
  COLLETID^. 
  

   Moderate 
  sized, 
  long-tongued, 
  hairy 
  bees, 
  burrowing 
  in 
  sandy 
  places. 
  

  

  COLLETES 
  Latr. 
  

  

  C. 
  armatus 
  Patt. 
  New 
  Jersey 
  (Ashni); 
  Lucaston 
  IX, 
  9 
  (Hk) 
  ; 
  visits 
  flow- 
  

   ers 
  of 
  "Compositse" 
  (Vk). 
  

  

  C. 
  americanus 
  Cress. 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  VII, 
  3 
  (Fox) 
  ; 
  Clementon 
  X, 
  4 
  (Hk) 
  ; 
  

   Manumuskin 
  IX, 
  15 
  (Dke) 
  ; 
  Anglesea 
  IX, 
  3 
  (Coll). 
  

  

  C. 
  compactus 
  Cress. 
  Chester 
  (Dn); 
  Lahaway 
  III-V 
  (Sm) 
  ; 
  Clementon 
  

   IX, 
  5 
  (Hk); 
  Lucaston, 
  DaCosta, 
  Manumuskin, 
  all 
  V 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  C. 
  inaequalis 
  Say. 
  (propinqua 
  Cress.) 
  Camden 
  Co., 
  Atco 
  (Fox); 
  Ches- 
  

   ter 
  IV, 
  20, 
  Lahaway 
  III, 
  26-IV, 
  20 
  (Coll); 
  Clementon 
  IV, 
  V 
  (div); 
  

   Manumuskin 
  IV, 
  V 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  C. 
  inagqualis 
  ferrugineus 
  Swenk. 
  Hainesport 
  III, 
  26 
  (Dke); 
  Riverton 
  

   (Vk). 
  

  

  C. 
  validus 
  Cress. 
  Staten 
  Island 
  IV 
  (Ds) 
  ; 
  New 
  Brunswick, 
  Jamesburg 
  IV 
  

   (Coll) 
  ; 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  V, 
  18 
  (Fox) 
  ; 
  Riverton 
  IV, 
  3 
  (Dke) 
  ; 
  Clementon 
  

   V, 
  3 
  (Hk). 
  

  

  C. 
  brevicornis 
  Rob. 
  North 
  Woodbury 
  (Vk). 
  

  

  C. 
  nudus 
  Rob. 
  Anglesea 
  VIII, 
  8, 
  on 
  white 
  umbellifer 
  (Vk). 
  

  

  C. 
  rufithorax 
  Swenk. 
  Westville 
  VI, 
  Clementon 
  V, 
  VI, 
  Manumuskin 
  V, 
  

   Ocean 
  City 
  VI, 
  Avalon 
  VI, 
  Anglesea 
  V 
  (Swenk) 
  ; 
  Prospertown 
  VI 
  

   (Coll). 
  

  

  C. 
  thoracicus 
  Smith. 
  Clementon 
  VI, 
  6 
  (Hk); 
  Brown's 
  Mills 
  V, 
  21, 
  Cape 
  

   May 
  VI, 
  7, 
  large 
  numbers 
  on 
  blossoms 
  of 
  holly 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  Family 
  STEUDID^. 
  

  

  STELIS 
  Panz. 
  

  

  S. 
  foederalis 
  Smith. 
  (Melanostelis 
  nitida 
  Cress.) 
  New 
  Jersey 
  probably 
  

  

  (Ashm). 
  

   S. 
  lateralis 
  Cress. 
  (Protostelis) 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  V, 
  18 
  (Fox). 
  

   S. 
  austral 
  is 
  Cress. 
  Wenonah 
  VII, 
  22 
  (Haim). 
  

   S. 
  foxi 
  Ashm. 
  (Melanostelis) 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  VII, 
  12 
  (Fox); 
  a 
  mss. 
  name 
  

  

  and 
  probably 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  "australis" 
  Cress. 
  

  

  Family 
  MEGACHILID^. 
  

  

  MEGACHILE 
  Latr. 
  

  

  These 
  are 
  leaf-cutter 
  bees 
  that 
  make 
  their 
  nests 
  in 
  burrows, 
  forming 
  

   cells 
  of 
  semi-circular 
  pieces 
  of 
  leaves. 
  Thy 
  are 
  solitary, 
  and 
  the 
  pollen 
  

   carrying 
  structures 
  are 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen. 
  

  

  