THE ANNALS 



AJJD 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOKY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 29. MAY 1900. 



LIV. — Observations on Bees collected at Las Vegas, New 

 Me.rico, and in the adjacent Mountains. By T. D. A. 

 COCKERELL, Professor of Entomology, New Mexico Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Bo77ihus pro.rimus, Cresson, 1863. 



This has ])riority of place over llowardi, Cresson, and 

 must be used for the species. The proximus form is the 

 usual one in New Mexico (MonuuKMit Rock Sec), 1)ut Miss W. 

 Porter took a male of li.pro.vimus^ var. Ilowardi {B, Howardi, 

 Cress. 1863), at San Ignacio, Sept. 1, 1899. The var. 

 Ilowardi has tlie second and third segments of the abdomen 

 yellow (some black hair at the base of the second), whereas 

 proxinms proper has the second segment black as well as the 

 tirst. 



Bomhusjuxtus, Cresson, 1878. 



Tliis has a very perfect iiiiinic in Volucella facialis, Will., 

 which Miss Wilmatte Porter collected in company with it on 

 flowers of wild plum at Beulah, N. M., May 30, 1899. 



Andrena Forterce, sp. n. 



? . — 12 millim. long. 



lilack, with black pubescence. Superficially this looks 

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