Records of Bees. ^'IW 



emit hairs. In Vf'ssnnielhis and calnrlinrh the civpeus is 

 smooth :ui(l sliiiiiii^, with v{>ry hirgc widclv soparatcd punc- 

 tures and some c'xccc'din^lv mmuto ones between. In utriceps 

 the basal lialF ol" second al)(U)miual segment is microsoopi- 

 cally tcssclhite, not punctate ; in Creasuivellus it is smooth, 

 with only rudiments of the tessellation, and with sparse but 

 distinct punctures. In Cressonie/ius the sides of the meso- 

 thorax mcsad of the tejjulie are shining, with larj^c and 

 small punctures irret^ulaily mixed ; in calochorti nearly the 

 same. /*. Crcs.sonid/iift has the apical half of maudiljles red, 

 in ca/or/iDfti they are blaek. These insects are known from 

 the ordinary American species of Panurginus by the first 

 recurrent nervure meeting the first transverso-cubital. 



Hah. ^^''ard, Colorado, 9000 feet, at flowers of Culochortus 

 Gunnisuni, var. imniaculatus, July 18, 1903 {('uckere//). 



Halictuides Harveyi, sp. n. 



? . — Length about or not quite 7 mm. 



Black, without the least metallic tinge ; the scanty pubes- 

 cence greyish white, the long hairs arising from under clypeal 

 margin reddish, the hair of mesothorax and scutellum some- 

 what inf'uscatcd, thtit at apex of abdomen merely stained with 

 brown; the abundant sco[)a of hind femora and tibije, a id 

 even sides of mctathorax, filled in the type specimen with 

 very pale greenish pollen ; head broad ; elypeus shining, 

 with large punctures ; punctures of front strong and distinctly 

 separated on a shining ground ; flagcUum short and very 

 thick, almost clavate, dark reddish beneath ; mesotliorax 

 shining, the punctures neither dense nor strong, median 

 impressed line distinct ; area of metathorax irregularly 

 wrinkled all over ; tegulse shining piccous, the outer margin 

 a little reddish. Wings slightly smoky, iridescent, ncrvures 

 aiul stigma black or almost; b. n. curved, meeting t.-m. ; 

 first r. n. joining second s.m. quite near its base, nearer 

 than the second to its apex. Legs blaek, with w hite hair ; 

 abdomen shining, sparsely hairy, without distinct bauds, the 

 hind margins of the segments more or less reddened. 



This small species is quite different from H. Tiin^leyi, Ckll , 

 in the colour and sculpture of the mcsothorax, and also 

 (lillers in the venation. 



//. onjT, \'iereck, has the mesotliorax like Tlnsh'i/t, and is 

 probably its male. 



Hah. Harvey's Ranch, Las Vegas Range, New Mexico, 

 Aug. 22 (IF. Porter) ; another from Ward, Colorado, at 

 flowers oUJrymocnllis, July 1905 {T. D. A. 6; JV. P. Ckll.). 

 It occurs at altitudes of 9000 feet and unwards. 



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