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Psyche 
[December 
SOME BEES FROM UTAH 
By T. D. A. Cockekell, 
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 
Comparatively little is known of the bees of Utah, so I 
heard with great satisfaction that Professor Vasco M. Tanner 
and his associates at Brigham Young University were vigorously 
collecting and studying the Hymenoptera of their state. They 
will undoubtedly have a rich field for interesting discoveries. At 
the present time I record a small series of bees, many of them 
new to Utah, sent to me by Professor Tanner. 
Nomada civilis Cress. $ 662 (Clarence Cottam) 
Nomada ( Gnathias ) hella Cress. $ 1637 (C. J. D. Brown) 
Triepeolus wyomingensis Ckll, 2cf, Sheep Creek, Duchesne Co. 
These show that the black mark on first abdominal seg- 
ment varies from a well defined transverse band, rounded at 
ends, to an irregular mark, broad in middle, but linear and 
partly broken laterally. 
Triepeolus tanneri n. sp. 
c? Length about 10.5 mm.; robust, black, including 
mandibles, antennae, tegulae (except dark brown margin) 
and legs (except tarsi; dull red at apex), spurs black; or- 
naments cream-color; eyes light green, purplish only to a 
slight degree at extreme base; face narrow; a patch of 
glittering white hair lateral of each antenna; clypeus dull, 
minutely and densely granular-punctate all over; meso- 
thorax strongly, more or less confluently punctured, glit- 
tering between the punctures; a pair of not very distinct 
dagger-shaped pubescent marks anteriorly, the base on an- 
terior margin of mesothorax, approached by, but not touching 
pubescence of sides; scutellum strongly bigibbous; meso- 
thorax dull, granular and rough, bare except a little hair at 
its upper end; wings very brown; abdomen with six even 
apical bands, and an anterior one, interrupted in middle, on 
first segment (the apical one on first almost interrupted); 
