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THE INSECT VISITORS OF FLOWERS IN 
NEW MEXICO.—II. 
By T. D. A. CockERELt, 
Entomologist of the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station. 
THE present paper. relates mostly to some investigations 
made in September and October, 1897, during a trip northward 
up the Rio Grande Valley. The localities visited were Rincon, 
Albuquerque, Santa Fé, Espafiola, Embudo, and Rinconada. 
Rincon, N. M., Sept. 14th. 
While the train stopped I was able to do a few moments’ collecting, 
and obtained three species of bees :— 
(1). Nomia foxii, Dalla Torre. One female at flowers of Solanum 
eleagnifolium. 
(2). Perdita callicerata, Ckll. At flowers of Baileya multiradiata. 
(3). Halictus sp., apparently new, at flowers of Gutierrezia sarothre. 
Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 15th to 17th. 
Altitude 5026 ft. Lat. 35°05’. Annual precipitation, 7-19 inches. 
Mean temperature: annual, 55°8°; for September, 68: 5°. 
The following flowers, which were collected, were not observed to be 
visited by bees :—Gaillardia, prob. pulchella, Aster multiflorus, Hriogonum 
rotundifoluum, Oreocarya prob. suffrutescens, Abronia fragrans, Astragalus 
sp., Salvia lanceolata, Carlowrightia linearifolia, Anemiopsis californica, 
Chrysothamnus (i.e. Bigelovia) bigelovii, Flaveria angustifolia (almost over). 
The B. bigeloviit was common by the roadsides in the part of the town 
known as the Highlands, and was badly infested by some gall-making 
dipteron. I am indebted to Prof. HE. O. Wooton for the names of these 
plants. 
The following flowers were visited by bees :— 
(1). Cleome serrulata; visited by Bombus morrisoni, Cr., Podalirius 
urbanus var. alamosanus (CkIl.), and Perdita zebrata, Cr. 
(2). Grindelia sp.; visited by Ashmeadiella bucconis (Say), which is 
new to the fauna of New Mexico. 
(3). Bigelovia wrightit; visited by Prosapis asinina var. bigelovie, 
Ckll. ined., Nomia nevadensis, Cr., Kpeolus occidentalis, Cr., and 
Colletes armata, Patt. 
