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(2.) Anthophora gohrmancB, Ckll. — Denver, Colo., May 2, 1902 

 (S. A. Johnson, 465) ; Montrose, May 5, 1901 ; Grand Junction, 

 May 8, 1901. New to Colorado; previously knov/n only by a 

 single specimen found in New Mexico. 



(3.) A. bomboides subsp. neomexicana, Ckll. — Fort Collins, 

 May 29, 1901 ; Denver, May 24, 1902 (S. A. Johnson, 221) ; 

 Parker, May 10, 1902 (S. A. Johnson, 475). Mr. Johnson writes 

 that the Parker specimens were bred from cells collected from 

 adobe banks along Cherry Creek, four miles north of Parker. 

 From this group of cells he bred the meloid beetle Leonidia 

 neomexicana (Ckll.). 



(4.) A. montana, Cresson. — Denver, July 15, 1899; Fort 

 Collins (P. K. Blynn) ; Livermore (E. D. Varney); foothills near 

 Horsetooth Mountain, at larkspur, along with EmphorojJsis 

 mucida johnsoni, one male (S. A. Johnson). The male, which 

 has not previously been described, is distinguished by the linear 

 abdominal bands. 



(5.) A. portercB, Ckll.— Golden, May 3, 1902 (S. A. Johnson, 

 477) ; Montrose, May 5, 1901. New to Colorado. 



(6.) A. euops, Ckll.— Pahsade, May 7, 1901; Fort Collins, 

 June 12, 1898 ; Boulder, May 17, 1902 (S. A. Johnson, 481) ; 

 Denver, May 2, 1902 (S. A. Johnson, 469). 



Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. : Dec. 6, 1904. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Pararge achine on the Mendel. — I trust I was justified in draw- 

 ing attention to the peculiarity I noticed in the Mendel specimens of 

 P. achine. The more so that RiJih says : " It is a usually constant 

 species which has little or no tendency to variation — as a matter of 

 fact, I find ainong more than one hundred examples before me not a 

 single anomalous form " p. 583. I think the following additional 

 notes, if you can find room for them, will show that, though my sug- 

 gestion that the Mendel form might be a loval race cannot be main- 

 tained, yet the form is worthy of a distinguishing name, and appears 

 to be the form of Tyrol and eastwards, with, of course, intermediates. 

 But none of my correspondents record it from Switzerland or France, 

 though probably it will be proved to be everywhere an occasional 

 aberration. I am much obliged to Mr. Rowland-Brown for his exami- 

 nation of collections beyond my reach. The sum of his investigations 

 (Entoni. xxxvii. p. 322) I take to be this: that Mr. Lemann's specimens 

 of achine from the South Tyrol are of the form I have called " mendel- 

 ensis," with an intermediate example from Zurich. Dr. Lang, from a 

 series of seventeen specimens, describes the white band as broadest, and 

 embracing both sides of all spots, in an individual from Podalia (I have 

 specimens from Aigle and Freiburg in Baden agreeing with the Podalia 

 specimen). Dr. Lang's examples from Amur, Switzerland, and Dres- 

 den have the band reduced in varying degrees, till some from Dresden 



