Recordm of Rnat. 2»j9 



Tetnilonia chrysophila, Cockerell. 



$ . Boulder, Coloiado, May 20, 1922 {Maxy Pope). New 

 to Colorado. 



Nomada (^Xanthidiuni) vallesina, var. honorata, iiov. 



? . — Leiif^th about 8*5 mm., anterior win^ nearly 8. 



Head, thorax, and lei^s red, with some black, but no 

 yellow ; abdomen with first segment clear red, with a small 

 black spot near base on each side and hind margin blackish ; 

 segnieiits 2 to 5 bright sulphur-yellow (except a median 

 basal red tiiangular area on 2), 2 to -4 with broad red hind 

 margins ; venter red, with small yellow spots at extreme 

 sides. Head and thorax with very little hair ; mandibles 

 simple, black at tips ; third antennal joint a trifle shorter 

 than fourth; antennai entirely clear red, the flagellum thick; 

 tegulai bright red, punctured. Wings strongly du.>ky, with 

 the usual hyaline area beyond the cells ; stigma clear ferru- 

 ginous, nervures fuscous ; b. n. going a short distance basad 

 of nervulus. Mesothorax and disc of metathorax without 

 black ; anterior cox89 simple ; hind femora with a large 

 diffused black stain behind, and their coxge with a large black 

 spot near base. 



Boulder, Colorado, May 21, 1922 [Frances D. Becker). 



Readily distinguished from typical ua/Zesma by the entirely 

 red postscutellum, absence of black band down middle of 

 metathorax, and absence of black marking about base of 

 antennae. The cheeks are broadly black behind in vallesina, 

 entirely red in Jionorata. 



Colletes spectahilis, Morawitz. 



Mr, E. Saunders, who revised the S. S. Saunders collection 

 at Oxford shortly before he died, indicated that Colletes 

 iiiveifusciatus, Dour.^, was a synonym of spi'clalnU>. The 

 same synonymy has been given by Alfken (1914). 



Colletes collaris, Dours. 



C. cariniger^ Perez, described from Syria, was determined 

 by Mr. E. Saunders to be a synonym oi collaris. 



