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Type — Meadow, Nebraska, July 14, 1905, (P. R. Jones). 

 5. 



In Ashmead's tables this bee runs to Aglae Lep. or Leiopo- 

 dus Smith. To the former it is but distantly related, but to the 

 latter it is fairly close, differing- radically, however, in the 

 comparative lengths of the palpal joints. From the type species 

 of Lciopodus this species differs in the lack of depression on 

 mesonotum, dark wings, lack of abdominal maculae, etc. I 

 take pleasure in dedicating this remarkable new genus to Mr. 

 H. L. Viereck, in recognition of his valuable contributions to 

 the study of North American bees. 



Viereckella ceanothina Ckll., n. sp. 



$?. — Similar to the typical species, but smaller (length less than 8 mm.) ; 

 wings only moderately dark, darkest apically, second submarginal 

 cell small, subtriangular, being much narrowed above, very much 

 shorter above and below than the first or third ; flagellum beneath dark 

 coffee brown, except its first joint, which is red; hair of tibiae white. 

 Runs nearest to Leiopodus in Ashmead's table. I examined the type of 

 Leiopodus in the British Museum (see Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XXXI, 

 316) and it is a decidely different insect. The hind coxae are large 

 and long, while in our insect they are normal, though rather large; 

 the b. n. falls a considerable distance short of t. m. ; in our species they 

 meet. The shape of the second s. m. is entirely different. 



Habitat. — Falls Church, Va., June 14, at flowers of Ceano- 

 thus. (Nathan Banks) — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Lycaena emigdionis Brennell. — Mr. Fordyce Grinnell described, in 

 Entomological News, April, 1905, a male and female of a Lycaena, 

 which he called emigdionis. His specimens were taken in San Emigdio 

 Canon, Kern County, California, in June. Mr. W. G. Wright, in But- 

 terflies of the West Coast, page 226, redescribed the species, giving it the 

 name melim\ona "from both of its supposed parents" {melissa and 

 acmon.) All his specimens were females and were taken in one locality 

 in the San Bernardino Mountains in June. He found acmon prevailing 

 there in May, melimona in June, and melissa in July. The larval food- 

 plant of emigdionis is Hosackia purshiana. Specimens sent by Mr. 

 Wright to W. H. Edwards were said to be "only a variety of acmon." 

 He has never taken the male. A later examination of Mr. Grinnell's 

 specimens proves them to be all females, and, as Edwards said, emig- 

 dionis is probably only a variety of acmon and the synonymy will be 

 Lycaena acmon Boisd. Var. + emigdionis Grinnell, melimona Wright. 

 — Carl R. Coolidge. 



