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record also a female collected west of Beulah, August 23, by Mrs. 
Wilmatte P. Cockerell. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED—New Mexico: Beulah, 4. 
- Colletes gilensis Cockerell. 
1897. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, Annals and Magazine of Natural His- 
tory, series 6, xix, pp. 41-42, gf (January, 1897); original de- 
scription. 
1907. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, Bulletin of the New Mexico Experi- 
ment Station, no. 24, p. 21 (August, 1897) ; recorded from Gila 
river on basis of types. 
1898. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories 
of Denison University, xi, p. 42, 6 (November, 1898); in table 
of New Mexico species. 
1899. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, The Entomologist, xxxii, p. 155, 6 
(July, 1899); recorded from Prude’s Summit, White Moun- 
tains, New Mexico. 
1901. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, Annals and Magazine of Natural His- 
tory, series 7, vil, p. 125, Q (January, 1901); recorded from Las 
Vegas and La Cueva, New Mexico; palpi of 2 described. 
1904. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, The Entomologist, xxxvii, p. 6, 9 
(January, 1904) ; recorded from Pecos, New Mexico. 
1905. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, Psyche, xii, p. 87, ¢ (October, 1905) ; 
in table of species. 
1906. Colletes gilensis Cockerell, Transactions of the American Entom- 
ological Society, xxxii, p. 292 (October, 1906); summary of 
above records. 
2. Length 13-15 mm. Very large and stout. Clypeus slightly convex, 
medially flattened, its apex decidedly emarginate, its surface shiny and 
very coarsely striate punctate. Supraclypeal area medially impunctate. 
Vertex shining, very distinctly double punctured with sparse, fine punc- 
tures and a few large ones, its pubescence pale except for a black tuft in 
interocellular space. Antennae black, joint 3 longer than 4 or 5, the pro- 
portion being 6:4:5, the following joints about as long as broad. Cheeks 
shiny, sparsely and finely punctured, sparsely grayish white pubescent. 
Malar space very short; about one-sixth as long as broad, striate. Pro- 
thoracic spine well formed and sharp. Punctures of mesothorax round 
and coarse, very crowded except on a shining disk where they are abruptly 
sparse. Scutellum anteriorly shining and punctured like disk of meso- 
thorax, the posterior half dull and finely densely punctured, as is also the 
postscutellum. Mesopleura punctured like dorsum of mesothorax. Su- 
perior face of metathorax rather poorly defined, the pits generally irregu- 
lar, narrow, and elongate, the enclosure funnel-shaped, its base trans- 
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