io(> Myioii Ilivnion S-n'rnh 



Noniaila (Mictonoinada) inodcsta (. rossiMi. 



iSo;. .Vt>/;iii(fii iiituirsi,} t'rcssoii, /'/<><•. h'lit. Soc. riiii. 11. pp. j8('>-8r. 



\0(\\. Mictvtiomodii tiiodcsto Robertson. C\i»i. Ent.. XXXV, p. 173. 

 i>K\^. .\\)>(i»j</(i inoiirsto Coikcvoll, /'n>i-. .•I((u/. Wit. Sci. /Vii"/.. p. 6to. 



SiHX'inuMis rotcrablo \o lypii'al A . iiunh'sta aic lo ho found in 

 tlic iMsicrn pan i^l' ilio stale, aiul ravol\ in western Xchi'aska also, 

 hut are ni>t nearly so eonunon as is the snUsjieeies rci/ana west- 

 \varill\ . It has heen eollootod at W'cepinji' Water, l.ineoln. Neligh, 

 ilalse\ and Mitehell, July 11 to JO, on llowets ol" Kiilinistcra 

 f'Krf^iiica. McdiiOi/o salii\} and . IscU-f^ias syi iiua. .\ pair heforo 

 (he writer received from O. A. Stevens (Nos. 3620. 3(>3o) was 

 oi^Ueeted at X'alley City, Xoiih Pakota. Aui^ust i^v lou. on 

 L Inysof'sis. 



Nomada (Microuomada) niodesta vegana Cockerel!. 



i>K>-\ l/iVf<'H(>»»iii(/(i inoiicsta Cockerel!, .hni. .l/ii,c. Wit. Hist.. \ II. 



pp. 4-'-44. 

 \ix\; ,V(>»hj(/<i »i(></j\</ii var. rt'^iiihi Cockeiell, rroc. .had. Wit. Sci. 



Phil., p. 610. 

 nx>5. Xoiiiada {Microtuuiunhi) XYi^iiihi lockerell. 7w«//. 1)4. Colorado 



Kxp. Sta., p. r<>. 

 101 1. .V<'W(Jc/.i (^l^cro^lonl^1d^l^ t-<'.cw»m Cockerell, /'n>r. I'. S. Xat. 



Mil.'!.. XLI. p. 23;. 



(.'oekerell desorihed lYiiatia as a variety oi \ . niodesta differing 

 in smaller si/e and in having- a red elypens, hut shortly there- 

 after (^/. c. \^)o<y) stated that it seemed to he a distinol though 

 closely allied species, and has sinoe so eited it. With a series 

 of sixty-two specimens of Xehraska nuHhsto hefore the writer he 

 eai\not agree with the latter conclusion. In eastern to central 

 Nehraska, and rarely in the western part of the slate as ahove 

 tioted, we get typical inoJi'stii with the clypeus hlack. hut from 

 central Xehraska westward the clypeus of the female becomes 

 more or less stained with red. at least on its lower margin, 

 until in Sioux county many of the specimens have the clypeus 

 bright red. rarely stained with black at all. In the series of 

 females l>efore the writer are represented all intermediate con- 

 ditions l>etween a wholly black and a wholly red clypeus. and 

 those with the red clypeus are identical with specitnens in 



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