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IV. — Descriptions and lieciu-ds of J ices. 

 By T. D. A. CocKiiKELL. 



Exomalopsis virbesimr^ sp. n. 



^ . — LiMigth lianlly 7 inin. 



lihu'k, with yellowi.sli-wliite puljcscoiicc, snow-white on 

 side:} ot lace ; a few dusky hairs tringiiig the nicdiaii Ijaio 

 area on thorax ; vertex shining, inipunctate; clypeus with a 

 tew huge jmnctures, its anterior edge narrowly reddish; 

 niandibk's with a red spot on middle ; Hagelluni bright ferru- 

 ginous beneath except at base, and also above at apex, the 

 last joint witii a shining oblique truncation ; scutelluin ante- 

 riorly bare, posteriorly with a very heavy fringe of hair, 

 which intrudes on the niidtUe of the postscutelluin ; teguhc 

 hairy, very dark brownish ; wings clear, slightly milky, 

 nervurcs and stigma piccous, stigma short, venation as in 

 E. soiani ; legs black, the tarsi becoming ferruginous, the 

 small joints bright red, with black claws; scopa of hind legs 

 very long, yellowish white, fulvous on inner side of tarsi ; 

 abdomen shining, segments 2 and 3 with narrow but very 

 conspicuous pure wliite marginal hair-bamls ; a very short 

 line of the same character is on each side of the tirst segment; 

 bases of third and fourth segments broadly seal-brown; 

 apical segments with a good deal of white hair; venter rather 

 bright ferruginous. 



JJab. Alesilla Park, New Mexico, at flowers of Vtrbcsina 

 exuuriculata, June \\) [Clarence lihodcs). 



The anterior declivity of the tirst abdominal segment is 

 boinided by a strong rim. The species probably belongs to 

 the group Anthophonda, and will have a yellow or white 

 cl} [teus in the male. It is allied to E. {Anthophorula) 

 Jyrunerif Crawf., which visits lleliantlius in Nebraska. 

 The date, June 19, seems early, but 1 suppose I rightly 

 inter[)ret the figures " 19 G " written by Mr. Khodes on the 

 label. 



Anthophora sp. 



From the nests of a species of A nthophora (the bees not 

 seen) my wife took a living sj)ccimen of the remarkable 

 i\Ieloid beetle IJornia niinutipentiis, Kiley, at Colorado 

 Springs, Colorado, in ^lay. 



MelisDodcs machivranthenv, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length almost lo mm. 



black, with white to yellowish-white pubescence, nowhere 



