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Bulletin of Laboratories of Denison University [Voi. xi. 
appendix to article IIL volume XI. 
Notes on Bees taken at Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 
September, 1897. 
By T. D. A. Cockerell, 
Entomologist of the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station. 
The following list is the result of some collecting done by the 
writer at Albuquerque during parts of three days in September. Only 
one of the species has been recorded before from that locality, and a 
few are new to New Mexico. In Bull. 24 of the N. M. Experiment Sta- 
tion, pp. 22-23, 13 bees are recorded from Albuquerque; the present 
list brings the number to 28. 
(1) . Prosapis asinina, Ckll. and Casad, 1895, tigelovice^ n. var. — Female ; 
differs by having the punctures of the first abdominal segment consider- 
ably smaller and weaker, hind margins of abdominal segments broadly 
rufescent, sides of abdomen with no noticeable white hair, scutellum with 
a distinct median longitudinal groove (wholly wanting in the typical 
form). Possibly a distinct species. One at flowers of Bigelozia wrightii, 
Sept. 16. Specimens taken at Mesilla, N. M., Sept. 4, at flowers of 
Bigelovia wrightii, are not bigelovia but ordinary asinina. 
(2) . Colletes arniata, Patton, 1879 — Sept. 15, two females at flowers of Bigelovia 
7 vrightii. 
(3) . Andrena helianthi, Rob., 1891 — Sept. 16, two females at flowers of Helian- 
thus annuus. New to New Mexico. The legs are black, not “ dull ferru- 
ginous,” as Robertson describes ; they are also black in a specimen re- 
ceived from Mr. Robertson. 
(4) . Noniia nevadensis, Cresson, 1874 — Sept. 16, one male and one female at 
flowers of Bigelovia %vrightii. I have also a male, which I took in Albu- 
querque, June 30, at flowers of Fallugia pardaoxa. 
(5) . Nomia persiniilis^ n. sp. — Female, length about 14 mm.; black with short 
greyish pubescence. Facial quadrangle about as broad as long ; head 
little hairy, sides of face with sparse short hairs ; no lateral facial depres- 
sions ; clypeus bare, subcancellate from close punctures all over, no 
smooth line; rest of face sculptured like clypeus ; vertex strongly and 
very closely punctured; antennae short, scape strongly punctured, flagel- 
lum wholly dark ; mandibles dark reddish in middle ; process of labrum 
subtruncate, very broad and little produced ; anterior edge of clypeus 
with a conspicuous fringe of orange hairs ; thorax with very short pale 
greyish-ochreous pubescence ; mesothorax with very large punctures, 
about as close as it is possible for them to be ; enclosure of metathorax 
bow-shaped, but broader at the sides than in the middle, irregularly sub- 
reticulated by raised lines, its boundary a strong ridge ; tegulge rufous ; 
wings yellowish-hyaline, apical margin broadly smoky, nervures dark 
brown; stigma ferruginous, rather small ; legs black; abdomen without 
