No. 430.] FLOWERS AND INSECTS IN NEW MEXICO. 813 
all dark; tegule pale brownish, with a yellowish spot ; wings rather 
small, hyaline, brilliantly iridescent; nervures and stigma sepia brown, 
third discoidal distinct ; marginal cell obliquely truncate ; second sub- 
marginal narrowed to a point above ; legs brownish-orange, the femora 
black behind, tibiae with a dark brown stripe on outer side, tarsi with 
at least the last joint darkened ; abdomen rather broad, shining black, 
with transverse wedge-shaped bluish-white marks on the sides of seg- 
ments two to four; ventral surface black. 
In my table in Bulletin of Laboratory of Denison University, XI, this 
runs to section 30, where it is at once distinguished by its spotted 
abdomen. It is closely allied to P. sexmaculata, agreeing in the 
ornamentation of the face and color of the antennz, but the color 
of the abdominal spots is entirely different, as also is the shape of 
the second submarginal cell, and P. anogre is a erred insect than 
sexmaculata. 
(4) Verbena bipinnatifida Nutt. is a plant with umbel-like heads of bril- 
liant t purple flowers, allied to the Verbena of gardens, and adapted to 
butterflies. On June 7 I saw it visited by the butterfly Pyrameis 
cardui and the day-flying hawk moth Dedlephila lineata; but to my 
surprise I also saw a female Anthophora montana, a long-tongued 
bee, sucking vigorously and apparently successfully. She had not 
collected any pollen 
(5) Phlox nana Nutt. A small species characteristic-of our region, with 
brilliant pink flowers. It is adapted to butterflies, but on June 7 I saw 
a short-tongued bee, Agapostemon texanus, - repeatedly trying to 
suck and of course getting nothing. ias n, in his revision of ` 
Phlox, says the corolla of JP. nana is “red” or ** white." It is always 
whitish beneath, but the üpper surface is typically bright pink, vary- 
ing, however, at Las Vegas to pale mauve (forma lilacina) and white 
with a large pink “eye” (forma oculata), the markings round the 
throat remaining the same in each case. 
(6) Sophora sericea Nutt. is a plant allied to Astragalus, with conspicuous 
w l It seems to be adapted to bumblebees, and is visited 
by Bombus morrisoni. 
ENGLE. 
Engle is a locality near the Rio Grande about fifty miles 
north of Las Cruces. Nothing has hitherto been known of 
its insect fauna. 
Astragalus bigelovii Gray. One of the so-called **loco- 
weeds " common in the southern part of New Mexico in open 
ground. The leaves are densely covered with white silky hairs. 
