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127. XYLOCOPA PURPUREA. 



Xylocopa purpurea, Cress., Trans. Am. Ent. Sou., iv, 284. 



2 9 specimens; Eastern Nevada ; 1872; Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



12S. BOMBUS PENNSYLVANICUS. 

 Apis pennsylranica, De Geer, Ins., iii, 575. 



1 9 specimen; Eastern Nevada ; 1872; Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



129. BOMBUS CALIFORNICUS. 

 Bombus cali/ornictts, Smith, Brit. Mus. Cat., ii, 400. 



1 9 specimen; Eastern Nevada ; 1872; Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



130. BOMBUS NEVADENSIS, sp. nov. 

 Plate XXXIV, Fig. 5. 



9 . — Black ; thorax above, and three basal segments of abdomen above, 

 clothed with a dense, yellowish pubescence ; wings black or dark fuligi- 

 nous ; legs clothed with black pubescence. Length, 9 lines. 



£ . — Like the 9 , except that the pubescence of the face and head above 

 is yellowish; the face narrower, and the eyes much larger, antenna?, longer, 

 &c. Length, 8 lines. (Trans. Am. Ent, Soc., 1875.) 



5 £ 9 specimens; Eastern Nevada; 1872; Dr. H. C. Yarrow : Ari- 

 zona; 187o; II. W. Henshaw : New Mexico ; Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 



131. BOMBUS PERVIOUS. 

 Bombus fervidus, Pari;.. Syst. Picz., 352. 



1 £ specimen; Eastern Nevada ; 1872; Dr. II. C. Yarrow. 



132. BOMBUS TERXARIUS. 

 Bombus ternarius, Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., i, 414. 



2 £ specimens; Colorado; 1873; Dr. J. T. Rothrock: New Mexico ; 



Dr. Oscar Loew. 



133. APATHUS INSULARIS. 



Apathus insularis, Smith, Jour. Eut., i, 155. 



2 £ 9 specimens; Eastern Nevada ; 1872; Dr. 11. C. Yarrow: Colo- 

 rado; 187.; ; Dr. J. T. Rothrock. 



