|i 



304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec, 'o2 



CoUetcs crucis. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Colletes crucis Cockerell, n. sp. — cf . Length about 7 mm. ; black, 

 densely covered with yellowish-white hair ; head broad, orbits strongly 

 converging below, face entirely covered with hair, mandibles with the 

 apical half ferruginous ; malar space very short, fully twice as broad as 

 long ; bifurcation of tongue very deep ; flagellum not ferruginous beneath, 

 nor obviously crenulated ; thorax densely covered with erect hair ; meso- 

 thorax with strong large punctures, except the middle, which is impunct- 

 ate ; base of metathorax with a few irregular strong longitudinal plica- 

 tions, terminated by a strong rim ; truncation shining ; tegulae ferruginous, 

 hairy ; wings long, hyaline and iridescent, with ferruginous stigma and 

 nervures ; first recurrent nervure joining the very broad second submar- 

 ginal cell at its middle ; legs hairy ; knees, apices of first four tibice, both 

 ends of hind tibiae, and all the tarsi, ferruginous ; abdomen hairy, the 

 bands consisting of very dense long hairs, covering most of the surface ; 

 disc of first segment shining, scarcely punctured ; the depressed apical 

 portion of the segment ferruginous, but covered by hair ; venter with 

 continuous hair-bands. 



Hab. — Las Cruces, New Mexico, Aug. 27, on flowers of 

 Solidago canadensis, collected by Prof. C. H. T. Townsend. 

 On the same flowers at the same time, Townsend collected a 

 male Colletes anna Ckll. In my table in Bull Denison I^ab., 

 xi, C. Crucis runs to C. gypsicolens , but it is a very much smaller 

 species than the latter, with yellower pubescence and differ- 

 ently colored legs ; the abdominal bands in gypsicoletis are en- 

 tirely white, in crucis they are obviously yellowish. From C. 

 anna, the species here described differs by its much less yellow 

 pubescence, smaller size and narrower abdomen ; yet they are 

 closely allied. 



A New Species of Melitaea. 

 By Henry Skinner. 



M. damcetas c^.—Upperside. Primaries. The ground color of the 

 wing \-\ black, crossed by four broken bands of fulvous spots, parallel to 

 the outer margin. The first row, next to the margin, consists of about 

 nine v-ry small and narrow spots ; the next row consists of seven spots, 

 the upper three being round and the lower four lunate. In the next row 

 the spots are six in number and somewhat larger. In the next and last 

 row the number of spots is six and they are still larger ; they are not in 



