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2. Jurinia apicifera Walk. — October 15. 
y 3. Echinomyia iterans Walk. — October 15 and 16. 
4. Echinomyia thomsoni Will. — October 15. 
5. Echinomyia victoria Towns. — October 15. 
- 6. Echinomyia neglecta Towns. — October 15. 
10. Asclepias speciosa Torr. — Collected on the Ruidoso, 6400 feet, 
July. 8, by Professor Wooton, who took at the same time on its flowers: 
Dejeania corpulenta Wd. 
11. Salvia lanceolata Willd. — Blazer’s Mill, about 6200 feet, October 2. 
Other Diptera. — The following Diptera were also taken in the 
Sacramento Mountain region, not on flowers: 
Microchrysa sp.? : — Ruidoso, about 6500 feet, July 3 (Wooton). 
Echinomyia iterans Walk. — White Mt., 9500 feet, July 6 (Wooton). 
Echinomyia victoria Towns. — Ruidoso, 8,500 feet, July 6 (Wooton). 
Blepharopiera pectinata Lw. — Agency, 6340 feet, October 3 (Cldl., 
det. Dept. Agriculture). 
Anastoechus nitidulus Fab. — Rio Tularosa crossing, about 5200 feet, 
October 4 (Ckll., det. Dept. Agriculture). 
Cyrtoneura pascnorum Meig. — Tularosa, 4140 feet, September 30 
(Ckll., det. Dept. Agriculture). 
Apidae, Coccidae, Etc. — Of the bees and scales collected in the Sac- 
ramentos, the new ones being already described by Professor Cockerell 
in the paper before referred to, the following may be mentioned here: 
Perdita stottleri Ckll. — A new species, taken on the Bigelovia flowers, 
at the store seven miles below the Agency, elevation about 5500 feet, 
October 1. 
Colletes bigeloviae Ckll. — On the Bigelovia flowers, Blazer’s Mill, about 
6200 feet, October 2. “Allied to the widely distributed C. armata Patt.” 
(Ckll.). 
Colletes aestivalis Patt. — Ruidoso, 6600 feet, July (Wooton). “A 
common eastern species, not yet found anywhere else in New Mexico” 
(Ckll.). 
Colletes wootoni Ckll. — Ruidoso, 6400 feet, July (Wooton). A new 
species. 
Icerya townsendi Ckll. — A very interesting new species, found just 
below Blazer’s Mill, 6200 feet, October 2, on stems of Gutierrezia saro- 
thrae, at base of plants. It is very likely the same species as a single 
specimen taken by the writer on the base of a stem of Gutierrezia, south 
of Squaw Spring, Arizona, July 26, 1892; the latter was sent to Dr. 
Riley, but never described. 
Another lot of Icerya was found by the writer about a week later, 
October 8, in the Mesilla Yalley, on stems of Pluchea borealis . It is so 
