Records cf Beep. 2 1 7 



a black spot on each side) and a large patch on base of 

 mandibles bright lemon-yellow ; labrum yellowish white. 

 Antennse long (abont 8^ mm.) ; third joint hardly longer 

 than second ; flagellnm entirely very bright fulvous beneath; 

 fourth joint (first long joint of flagellnm) long, much longer 

 than fifth; joints entirely without longitudinal keels. Meso- 

 thorax densely punctured; tegulfe fulvous^ with fulvous 

 hair; hair of legs pale ochraceous (no black), that of hind 

 tibiffi and tarsi strongly but briefly plumose ; hair on inner 

 side of tarsi ferruginous ; apices of middle and hind femora, 

 apices of all the til^ise, and the tarsi entirely, ferruginous ; 

 hind tibiaj and basal joint of tarsi with black specks. Wings 

 strongly smoky, yellowish basally, nervures and stigma 

 rather dark ferruginous ; second submarginal cell very large, 

 very nearly as large as the fii'st, receiving the recurrent 

 nervure near the end; third submarginal cell narrowed 

 much more than half to marginal. Abdomen rather narrow, 

 with abundant coarse hair, erect and fulvo-ochraceous on 

 first segment ; ochraceous on second to fourth, but these 

 segments have also black hair on the apical middle, and the 

 fourth has black hair at base ; fifth and sixth segments, and 

 Jipex, entirely black, with black hair, but pale hair from the 

 venter showing as a tuft on each side ; apical plate dark red; 

 hair of venter pale, with a good deal of black on middle of 

 fourth and fifth segmenfs, the apical segment dark reddish, 

 fringed with black. Easily known from M. aurigenia by 

 the colour of the abdominal pubescence ; from M. grindelice 

 by the longer antennae, colour of pubescence, &c. 



Hab. Mesilla Park, New Mexico, at flowers of Kall- 

 strcemia ; July 27 {Cockerel!). 



It had previously visited an asclepiad, as shown by pollen- 

 masses adherent to two of the legs. 



Mdissodes kallstramice, var. phenacoides, nov. 



^ . — Abdomen broader, with the ochreous pubescence 

 replaced by white, except that the first segment has the hair 

 faintly yellowish ; the fifth segment has, in addition to the 

 black, a few long white hairs; the hair of the vertex and 

 thorax above is pallid, faintly tinged with ochraceous ; the 

 third nntennal joint is a little longer; the nervures are clear 

 ferruginous ; the claws are larger, those on the hind legs 

 being very large. 



Hab. Las Cruces, New Mexico, Aug. 25, 1894 {Cockerell, 

 2027). 



This is the insect whi^h has gone in the New Mexico list 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. 8er. 7. IW, xvi. 15 



