1891. 
1898. 
1899. 
1899. 
1901. 
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Colletes armatus Patton. 
. Colletcs inaequalis Cresson (not of Say), Proceedings of the Bos- 
ton Society of Natural History, xii, p. 166, 2 (December, 1868) ; 
original description. 
2. Colletes inaequalis Cresson, Transactions of the American Entom- 
ological Society, iv, p. 248, 2 (November, 1872) ; recorded from 
Bosque and Dallas counties, Texas. 
9. Colletes armata Patton, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Nat- 
ural History, xx, pp. 143-44, 2 ¢ (April, 1879); new name for 
Cresson’s inaequalis and description of supposed male. 
79. Colletes scitula Patton, [bid., p. 144, 0; original description. 
. Colletcs armata Patton, Bulletin of the United States Geological 
Survey, v, p. 365, 6 (November, 1879) ; specimen from western 
Kansas described and compared with Connecticut specimens. 
Colletes spinosa Robertson, Transactions of the American Entom- 
ological Socicty, xviii, p. 60, 2 ¢ (April, 1891); original de- 
scription. 
. Colletes armata Robertson, Ibid., xxii, p. 116 (May, 1895); syn- 
onymy—scitula and spinosa—=armata. 
. Colletes armatus Dalla Torre, Catalogus Hymenopterorum, x, p. 
37 (1896). 
. Colletes bigeloviae Cockerell, Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, series 6, xix, p. 40, 2 (January, 1897); original de- 
scription. 
. Colletcs armata Cockerell, Ibid., p. 41, 2; recorded from Las Cru- 
ces, New Mexico, and compared with bigeloviae, 
. Colletes bigeloviae Cockerell, Bulletin of the New Mexico Ex- 
periment Station, no. 24, p. 21 (August, 1897); recorded from 
Tularosa creek on basis of preceding record of bigeloviae. 
. Colletes armata Cockerell, [bid., p. 24; recorded from Mesilla val- 
ley on basis of preceding record of armata. 
. Colletes bigeloviae Cockerell, Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories 
of Denison ‘University, xi, p. 42, 2 (November, 1898) ; in table 
of New Mexico species. 
Colletes armata Cockerell, Ibid., p. 42, 2; in table of New Mexico 
species, 
Colletes bigeloviae Cockerell, The Entomologist, p. 154, 2 (July, 
1899) ; recorded from Prude’s Summit, White Mountains, New 
Mexico. 
Colletes armata Bridwell, Transactions of the Kansas Academy, of 
Science, p. 209; recorded on strength of Patton’s record from 
Kansas. 
Colletes bigeloviae Cockerell, Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, series 7, vii, p. 125 (January, 1901); recorded from 
Beulah, New Mexico. 
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