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after part of the day they may be found resting on the tips of 

 reeds or sticks in the vicinity of water. When the collector 

 approaches they tiit away, but in case no effort is made to 

 capture them they come to rest again on the same perch. I 

 have seen an individual duplicate this performance no less 

 than four times. 



I have before me at the present time four specimens from 

 Akron, Ohio, taken by myself on June 23 and July 20, 1898 ; 

 and two specimens from Indiana, taken by E. B. Williamson. 

 Chas. Dury has taken the species at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The accx)mpanying drawings will explain themselves. They 

 represent the right wings of six different specimens. I made 

 them to show the variation in the outline of the dark mark- 

 ings. T have never seen two specimens exaetly alike in this 

 respec^t. 



1) 



THE BEES OF KANSAS. 



By T. D. A. CocKEKELL, X. M. Agr. Exp. Sta. 



The bee faunae of Xew Mexico and Illinois are fairly well 

 known, and have very few species in common. It is interest- 

 ing to ask, where do the eastern types find their extreme 

 western limit, and at what points do they give way to those 

 of the West and South * With these questions in mind, any 

 information about the bee- fauna of Kansas is particularly wel- 

 cx)me ; and I have been very glad to learn from Mr. J. C. 

 Bridwell, of Baldwin, that he is about to make a study of the 

 liees of his region. 



Baldwin is in Douglas county, at the eastern end of the 

 State. A box of bees collected at that place has just been re- 

 ceived from Mr. Bridwell, and the species, so far as I have de- 

 termined them, are the following : 



Bomhus inrginicm, Oliv., B. sejyaratus, Cress., B. peimsylva- 

 iiiem, Deg., Anthophora ahrupta. Say, Synhalonia f rater, Cress., 

 Mdissodes bimaculata, Lep., 3/. obliqua, Say, M.perplexa, Cress., 

 Epeolus hifasciatm, Cress., CaJUopsis andrenifornis, Smith, Pro- 

 tandrena cockereUi, Dunning, Prosapis pygmcea, Cress., Spheco- 

 des mandibuJaris, Cress., Auffochlora humeralis, Patton, A. viri- 

 dula, Smith, A. similis, Bob., A. confusa, Bob., Halictus par- 

 attdm, Say, R. ligatws, Say, H. fasciatus, Nyl., Andrena mariw, 

 Rob., A. erythrogastra, Ashm.,^. vicina, Smith, A . mlicinella, 



