258 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, *12 
watched, then she was left to her work. By 5 P. M. she was 
not coming to the blanket, so the cell she had constructed was 
located. It was attached to a fold of the blanket. It was 
nearly one inch long and something less than half as wide, 
made of 42 leaf bits overlapping each other and quite firmly 
held together. Within the little chamber there was a mass of 
pollen larger than a pea, and as the cell was not closed evi- 
dently the work of collecting pollen had not been completed. 
Family ANTHOPHORIDAE 
Melitoma grisella Ckll. & Porter, Syn. dakotensis Ckll. & Porter. 
This bee (Pl. XVI, fig. 6) which we have found rare in Kan- 
sas, has heretofore been taken in this same State by Dr. Snow, 
who took one male in Wallace County, in 1877 (No. 839). 
Six additional specimens, 2 ¢ ¢ and 4 2 9, were secured 
during July and August, 1910 in Rawlins, Cheyenne and 
Greeley Counties. (A few were found in Grant County the 
subsequent year). 
The nesting habits of this insect were observed to some ex- 
tent. Near Atwood, in Rawlins County, the tunnel of grisella 
was found in a clay bank. It was five or six inches in length, 
inclined slightly downwards, quite smooth and forked near the 
end, each branch terminating in a polished cell, stuffed with 
a mass of yellowish-white pollen. The bee constructs a long 
arch or semi-tube of clay, which is secured along the bank, and 
has its upper end terminating at the tunnel. The arch ob- 
served at Atwood and which is figured in Plate XIV, figs. 1 & 
2, was an inch and a half in length, of rough exterior and 
smooth interior. 
In Cheyenne County, in the extreme northwest corner of the 
State, a small and rather dilapidated colony of M. grisella was 
located in a little gully near Republican River. Here three 
clay arches were seen, with a fourth being constructed or re- 
paired by a bee. Some old deserted holes here, evidently be- 
longing to this species, were being utilized by the Crabronid 
(Trypoxylon texense), which stored spiders in them. 
