Records of Bees. 193 



Agapostemon nasutus, Smith. 



Quirigua, Guatemala, 2 S ■> one Feb. 12, at flowers of 

 Ipomoea sidafolia {IV. F. CockereU). 



Panurginus pectiphilus, sp. u. 



$ . — Length about 5 mm., anterior wing 4*25. 



Robust, black, with a broad abdomen ; pubescence scanty, 

 dull wliite, dense at apex of abdomen and quite thick ou 

 legs ; facial quadrangle broader than long ; eyes dark green ; 

 mandibles ferruginous, darkened at base and apex; process 

 of labriim concave above, very broad, the margin gently 

 rounded ; clypcus and face shining, but strongly and closely 

 punctured ; flagellum very bright ferruginous beneath, 

 except at base, the apical joint also clear red above ; vertex 

 brilliantly shining, but well punctured ; mesothorax and 

 scutellum shining, but distinctly and rather closely punc- 

 tured ; middle of metathorax shining, the apical pit deep 

 and large, the basal enclosure represented by a very narrow 

 rugose groove^ tubercles densely covered with short greyish- 

 white hair ; tegular ferruginous. Wings hyaline, nervures 

 and stigma rufo-fuscous ; b. u. falling a considerable distance 

 short of t.-m. ; second s.m. long, receiving first r. n. about 

 or a little before the end of its first fourth ; tibiae and tarsi 

 with much white hair. Abdomen hairy at sides, apex, and 

 on venter only ; apical margins of segments broadly de- 

 pressed, minutely transversely lineolate; the discs of seg- 

 ments minutely roughened or punctate, the second segment 

 (except the depression) with uniform fine punctures all over, 

 the surface shining. 



Hab. Soledad Canon, Organ ]\Its., New Mexico, at flowers 

 of Pedis papposa ; the hind legs loaded with pollen [C. H. T. 

 Toivnsend) . 



This cannot be the female of P. townsendi, from the same 

 mountains, owing to the difference in venation. It is a 

 peculiar, compact little species, not very close to any other 

 known to me. In the table of $ Panurginus in Entom. 

 News, May 1907, p. 185, it runs nearest to P. innuptus (at 

 least the small joints of hind tarsi being clear red), but that 

 is a much larger insect, and has a large sculptured basal 

 area of metathorax. 



Panurginus nuhis, sp. n. 

 ? . — Length nearly 7 mm., anterior wing 5. 

 Black, rather slender, but with a broad head, the facial 



