Records of Uee». 22') 



wit]) a fine wlntc pile, givin<j a pruinose appearance, most 

 ap|)arcnt at the sides; no liaii-l)an(ls ; a[)ical hair orauge- 

 fulvoixs. A very beautiful speeies. 



Hub. Boulder, Colorado, June I, 1905 {W. P. Cockerell). 



Prosopis universila/isj s[). n. 



c7 , — Length about 5.\ mm. 



Black ; face-marks creamy white ; mandibles with a white 

 stripe ; teguUe and tubercles light-spotced, but j)rothora>; 

 otherwise dark. Wings smoky, iridescent ; nervures and 

 siigma black ; first abdominal segment with very minute 

 |)nnetures. This runs iu mv table (' Entoin:dogist/ Aug. 

 1898) to P. epi.scopa/is, to which it is closely allied ; differing 

 as follows: — Hagellnm clear ferrngiuous i)cncath; supra- 

 clypeal mark broad (much broader than iu P. asinina), shaped 

 as in episcopalls, but the upper end narrowly truncate ; 

 upwardcxtensiouof lateral raarksnarrow, gradually narrowing 

 to a point, which is a little divergent from the orbital margin ; 

 upi)er Ijordcr of prothorax all black ; less than bas:il half of 

 hind tibiic white. From P. colorailensis it is easily known 

 by the mnch narrower, pointed, upward extension of lateral 

 marks. The scape is ordinary (not swollen), and has a pallid 

 streak on the outer side. 



Hab. Boulder, Colorado, June II, 190 j (//'. P. Cockerel/). 



Noinada Packardiella, sp, n. 



$ , — Length nearly 9 mm. 



A red and black species, with the hind margins of the 

 first three al)domin d. segments broadly black and that of the 

 fourth broadly very dark brown. Closely allied in all respects 

 to N. niyrociiicta, iSmith, but having the following distinctive 

 characters: — antcnnaj \cry long, entirely red, third joint 

 about as long as fifth and shorter than fourth, but not 

 greatly so; lahruni red ; mandibles red except at tips, siiuple ; 

 no yellow at lower corners of face; black above antenna3 ami 

 around ocelli ; thorax above coarsely rugoso-punctate ; meso- 

 thorax red, with a narrow median black band ; the scanty 

 hair of head and thorax above orange-fulvous , metathorax 

 red, with a median black stripe, the sides with hardly any 

 pubescence (dense white pubescence iu ni(jroc'mcta). Wings 

 dark at apex; stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscoiis ; b. u. a 

 long distance basad of t.-m. ; second s.m. very broad below. 

 Legs red, with black at bases of femora behind, the black 

 more extensive on hind femora; abdoaien rather long and 



