Mr. T. I). A. Cockerell on Bees. 21 



I.V. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. 

 By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Exomalopsis vcrhesincv, sp. n. 



? . — Length liardly 7 mm. 



Black, vvitli yellowish-white pubescencCj snow-white on 

 sides of face ; a few dusky liaiis fringing the median bare 

 area on thorax ; vertex sliining, impunctate; clypeus with a 

 few large punctures, its anterior edge narrowly reddish; 

 mandibles with a red spot on middle ; Hagellum bright ferru- 

 ginous beneath except at base, and also above at apex, the 

 last joint with a shining oblique truncation ; scutellum ante- 

 riorly bare, posteriorly with a very heavy fringe of hair, 

 which intrudes on the middle of the postscutellutn ; tegular 

 hairy, very dark brownish ; wings clear, slightly milky, 

 nervures and stigma piceous, stigma short, venation as in 

 E. solani ; legs black, the tarsi becoming ferruginous, the 

 small joints bright red, with black claws; scopa of hind legs 

 very long, yellowish white, fulvous on inner side of tarsi ; 

 abdomen shining^ segments 2 and 3 with narrow but very 

 conspicuous pure white marginal hair-bands ; a very short 

 line of the same character is on each side of the tirst segment; 

 bases of third and lourth segments broadly seal-brown ; 

 apical segments with a good deal of white hair ; venter rather 

 brigiit ferruginous. 



IJah. Mesilla Park, New Mexico, at flowers of Verbesina 

 exauriculata, June .19 [Clarence lihodes). 



The anterior declivity of the first abdominal segment is 

 bounded by a strong rim. The species probably belongs to 

 the group Antlwpfionda, and will have a yellow or white 

 clypeus HI the male. It is allied to E. [AntJiophorula) 

 Bruneri, Crawf., which visits Heliantlius in Nebraska. 

 The date, June 19, seems early, but I suppose I rightly 

 interpret the figures " 19 6 " written by Mr. lihodes on the 

 label. 



Anthoj)liora sp. 



From the nests of a species of Anihophora (the bees not 

 seen) my wife took a living specimen of the remarkable 

 Meloid beetle Bornia minutipennis, Kiley, at Colorado 

 [Springs, Colorado, in May. 



Melissodes machccrantheroi, sp. n. 



(J. — Length almost 15 mm. 



Black, with white to yellowish-white pubescence, nowhere 



