814 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXVI. 
Miss Nora Newberry, during the latter part of April and the 
first few days of May, collected from the flowers a number of 
long-tongued bees, which prove to be as follows : 
(1) Sy#halonia lycii Ckll., both sexes ; the male was not before known. 
In the male the clypeus, labrum, and a small, broadly triangular 
supraclypeal area are cream-color. (In the males of .S. edwardsii 
and frater the clypeus is very bright yellow, and there is no supra- 
clypeal mark.) 
(2) Anthophora affabilis Cr. 9. ‘The identity of this has been confirmed 
by Mr. Fox, who compared it with Cresson's type. In the Mesilla 
valley it visits Lycium torreyi. 
(3) Anthophora portere Ckll. Several females; only two specimens of 
this species were previously known. It is readily distinguished from 
A. affabilis by the black hair mixed with the light on the mesothorax. 
The female nearly agrees with the description of 4. zgnava Cr., but 
Mr. Fox has kindly compared it with Cresson's type, and assures me 
that it is different. Mr. Fox remarks that the female seems to agree 
with 4. edwardsii Cr., except that it is larger; the male, however, 
has not the tooth on inner side of hind joint of posterior tarsi, and the 
lateral face-marks are not “lanceolate,” but are shaped like a rose- 
thorn. A male 4. porteræ was taken at flowers of Ribes longiflorum, 
at Las Vegas, N.M., May 15, 1902, by Eldon Tuttle and Leo Tipton. 
It differs from the original type in having more yellow on the scape 
and rather more black hair on the mesothorax. A character over 
looked in the original description is a little pencil of black hair 
overlapping the upper anterior corner of each eye. 
It is to be noted that both Synhalonia and Anthophora visit 
Ribes, Lycium, and Astragalus, plants of very different affinities 
— but similar in their adaptation to long-tongued bees 
Trout SPRING. 
This is a locality in Gallinas Cafion, N.M., some miles above 
Las Vegas Hot Springs. It is of interest on account of the 
mixed boreal and austral elements in its fauna and flora, the 
result in large measure, no doubt, of the narrowness of 
the cafion, whereby some slopes get little or no sun, while 
others are well warmed. The abundance of Pinus scopulorum 
and Populus angustifolia indicate the Transition Zone, while 
Heracleum lanatum, Dasiphora fruticosa, and Ribes irriguum are 
