SOME BEES FPtOM SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, NEW 



MEXICO. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



Sphecodes veganus, n. sp. 



? . Length about 9^ mm. ; head, thorax, legs, and antennte 

 black, the flagellum very faintly brownish apically, spurs rather light 

 ferruginous ; abdomen of ordinary form, bright ferruginous or chestnut- 

 red, shining, the fifth segment hairy, black, slightly reddish basally. 

 Mandibles stout, black stained with dark red, with a blunt inner tooth ; 

 labrum with a broad low transverse punctate ridge, not at all emargi- 

 nate ; antennae with fourth joint short, broader than long ; flagellum 

 stout ; face broad, covered with white hair ; clypeus with very large 

 strong punctures, averaging closer together than the diameter of one ; 

 front with close strong punctures ; mesothorax shining, with strong 

 and rather close punctures (closer than in S. arvensis), median and 

 parapsidal grooves distinct ; metathorax with the enclosure large, 

 semilunar, distinct, with very strong vermiform longitudinal rugae, 

 partly connected by small transverse ones ; sides of metathorax coarsely 

 rugose ; tegulae large, pale testaceous with a dark spot ; wings faintly 

 dusky, stigma and nervures black or almost so ; second submarginal 

 cell very narrow ; first longer than in arvensis; first abdominal segment 

 with very sparse punctures on a shining ground ; second and following 

 segments with minute close punctures, except on the apical margins. 



Hah. Las Vegas, New Mexico, September. This and the 

 next species are superficially like S. arvensis, but are distin- 

 guished by many characters. The fine close punctures of the 

 abdomen of S. veganus are very distinctive. 



Sphecodes pecosensis, n. sp. 

 ? . Length slightly over 8 mm. ; head, thorax, legs, and antenna 

 black, the flagellum longer than in S. veganus ; spurs rufo-fuscous ; 

 abdomen of ordinary form, shining, bright chestnut-red, the fifth seg- 

 ment only slightly dusky at apex. Mandibles reddish only at tips, 

 with a divergent inner tooth ; labrum with a strong transverse ridge, 

 not emarginate ; antennae with the fourth joint somewhat longer than 

 broad, much longer than the third ; face broad, rather thinly pube- 

 scent ; clypeus with extremely large, almost confluent punctures ; a 

 raised vertical line between antennae ; front extremely densely punc- 

 tured ; a small transverse ridge behind ocelli ; mesothorax with large 

 confluent punctures all over, giving it a very rough (though not dull) 

 appearance ; median groove scarcely indicated ; scutellum with sparse 

 punctures on a shining ground ; enclosure of metathorax semilunar 

 but ill-defined, with very strong straight longitudinal rugs, as Sichel 

 describes for S. metathoracicus, only in our species the metathorax out- 

 side of the enclosure is coarsely cancellate ; tegulae with the anterior 

 border hyaline, then a large black spot, and behind that ferruginous ; 

 wings dusky ; stigma and nervures black or almost ; second sub- 

 marginal cell narrowed above ; first and second abdominal segments 



