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cussion again later. Nothing can be accomplished except by 

 the concerted action of the mass of American workers. I 

 hope that some move in this direction may be made at the 

 various meetings to be held this coming winter, and that reso- 

 lutions calling for mercy and more practical treatment be pre- 

 sented to all academies, societies and journals, including those 

 of Philadelphia to which Dr. Skinner owes allegiance. 



If my remarks shall serve to agitate this question and bring 

 it up for general discussion, I shall feel amply repaid for having 

 been dragged forth and held up as a solemn warning to other 

 laborers in the field. Simple approbation and commendation — 

 even bare justice — for results accomplished under great diffi- 

 culties and in defiance of all sorts of obstacles are perhaps 

 more to be appreciated in this illy supported and little under- 

 stood line of work than in any other, but if the opposite is to 

 be meted out to me, I only hope that it prove a means toward 

 the general good, — the raising of standards and the bettering 

 of conditions surrounding the majority of American workers. 



New Bees from Colorado. 

 By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



Bombomelecta johnsoni n. sp.— J^. Length about i6>^ mm., the abdo- 

 men rather long and tapering ; black, the thorax densely covered with 

 hair, the abdomen spotted. Head broad , eyes prominent ; third joint 

 of maxillary palpi longer than the second or fourth ; antennae black, not 

 especially long, the flagellum uniformly thickened, its first joint much 

 longer than the second, which is about as long as broad ; hair of cheeks 

 black, of occiput ochreous, of face black at sides and ochreous (with 

 some black) in middle ; scape fringed with long ochreous hair, but bare 

 in front, its apex with a few black hairs ; thorax at sides and beneath with 

 black hair, above with abundant long ochreous hair, becoming strongly 

 fulvous in front, and extending downwards a short distance below the 

 tubercles ; scutellar spines, small and inconspicuous ; dorsum of thorax 

 rugosely extremely densely punctured ; tegulse black, punctate ; wings 

 only faintly dusky, nervures black ; legs black, with black hair, but 

 anterior femora with a tuft of long pale yellowish hair at apex behind, 

 and middle tibae, with a very large light ochreous patch on the outer side ; 

 abdomen black, closely punctured, the first segment with ochreous hair, 

 except at apex ; second segment with a small obscure ochreous patch 

 subapically on each side ; third to fifth each with a widely separated pair 

 of large ochreous spots ; the second also has some ochreous hair at the 

 extreme sides. 



