528 On some Bees from the Rocky Mountain Region. 



in Martini) ; sides of vertex with erect dark hairs, not very 

 numerous ; face and cheeks with rather dull white hair ; 

 facial quadraugle broader than long, but not very greatly so; 

 e\ es very pale greenish ; Hagellum, except at base, dark red 

 beneath; tcgulse dark red-brown. Wiug^ very little dusky, 

 much clearer than in M. thelnpodii ; first recurrent nervure 

 joining second submarginal cell about the beginning of its 

 last third; second subniarginal cell nearly as broad above as 

 high. Hair of legs pale ; dark grey on outer side of anterior 

 tibiae; tuft on hind knees rufo-f ulvous ; scopa of hind legs 

 fulvous, hair on inner side of their tarsi bright ferruginous ; 

 small joints of tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen broad (broader 

 than in ihehjpodii), Avith the hair on the first four segments 

 ochreous tinged with fulvous, the arrangement of the hair 

 as in thelypodii', hair of two apical segments very dark 

 purplish brown ; hair of venter fulvous (in thelypodii less 

 abundant, and black, with some dull white laterally), l^y 

 the colour and appearance of the abdominal bands this 

 resembles M. yilensis, but it is larger, and the pubescence of 

 the thorax is quite different, much more resembling that of 

 M. menuacha. In many respects, M. Hewetti resembles 

 M. texana, but it differs in having the hair on the face 

 white and the abdominal bands fulvo-ocliraceous. 



Hub. Santa Fe, New Mexico, Aug. 2, 1894, at flowers of 

 Cleome serruluta ; collected by myself. It was accompanied 

 on the flowers by Nomia Foxii, D. T. 



Named after Mr. E. L. Hewett, in recognition of his 

 educational and scientific Mork in New Mexico. 



Melissodes parosetce, sp, n. 



^ . — Length about 9 mm. 



Antennae very long (about 8| mm.), flagellum bright fulvo- 

 ferruginous beneath ; elypeus, labrum, and a large patch on 

 mandibles lemon-yellow ; second joint of maxillary palpi 

 swollen, third long and cylindrical, last minute ; facial 

 quadrangle longer than broad, narrowing below ; hair of face 

 and cheeks white, of vertex and occiput ochraccous ; eyes 

 silver-grey with a green tint : hair of mcsothorax fulvous ; 

 scutellum with much black hair ; tegulne dark brown, hairy. 

 Wings almost clear, stigma and nervures dark ferruginous; 

 second subniarginal cell large, receiving first recurrent 

 nervure about the beginning of its last fourth. Hair of legs 

 white, orange-fulvous on inner side of tarsi, which are red; 

 abdominal bands creamy white; hair of venter pale. Looks 

 nnich like a small c? of M. grindeVuo, but easily separated 



