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Psyche 9:94, 1900.

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94 PSYCHE. [August, goo.
Singe IV, Head rounded, scarcely bl-
lobed, lower than prothorax, whitish, dotted with black over the sides and in a double streak on the vertex; width about I mm.
Body short and thic.k, angular from the ele- vations, but without processes. Tubercle i and ii are high white cones with short, stiffs sctae but with no elevation of the body ; iv is a larger cone with similar seta (i.e. iii of joint 5, iv of 6 to g], the tubercle radiately spinusc on its shaft and arising from a slight Iateml elevation or swelling of the body; before and a little below it is a smaller smooth white cone bearing seta ill; v and vi remote, silni- liu- to iii; upper vii smaller, helow iii sub- ventrally; lower vii and viii are prominent on the edge of the venter. Spiracle on the dorsal aspect of the slight bulge that bears tubercle iv on joints 5 to 9. Tubercles of NOTES ON THE NESTING OF
ANTHIDIUM PAROSELAE CKLL.
I do not know how long this bee had been working before I discovered it, but to my knowledge it carried honey and pollen into its nest for two days. The nest was a small round hole bored in the. hard sand. The bee broiifi;ht.very small loads of pollen, and voul~l remain in its nest about 45 seconds each time; it took from three to five minutes for it to collect each load, and when it returned it would sail about its nest a short time before entering. Once during Hie absence of the Anthidium a specimen of S-phecodcs fortior Ckll. entered the nest and stayed about half a minute, and then flew out very swiftly, as if it were afraid the Anthidium would return and do it some harm. I had noticed from the beginning that another bee {Z~o~lu~asites froducius var. s h d e r Ckll.) lingered around the nest. and would frequently go to theentrance and look in. After n while dur- thorax ~ n d joints 12-13 srniiller; on 12, i is absent, ii is large and sticky like iv of 9, iii fs rudilnent~iry. Blackish gray; ground color blackish brown, densely frosted with round flattened, white granules, the prominent tubcrclcs white and an angular white marking in a double dorsal line, along the angular latei-a1 outline and si~bvenl.rally, most distinct on joints 12 and 13. Thoracic feet pale; plates large, hut colored and sculptured like the body. All covered with fragments of
petals, adhering to Hie sticky tubercles. The spiciiles on the sticky tubercles are short cylindrical rods with blunt tips. The larva hibernated in this stage. full grown appar- ently.
Bred at Washington, D.C., from eggs
(obtained Sept. at. Earlier broods will give the moth the same season.
Larvae fed on flowers of Aster.
ing the absence of the Anthidiurn, it took the liberty of going into the nest. but it did not stay long'. After the Anth'icii~ini had finished provisioning her nebt, she brought some wool from ilic stems of plants and filled up the en- trance. When the bee had gone I ling up
the nest d found that it had stored its pro- visions in wool, the same as that with which it hid closed up the nest.
Minnie Newbefry.
[The above obscrviitions, made by Miss
Ncwbei-rj, a student of the N. M. Agrieul- tural College, are of interest, because nothing whatever has been reported herelofore re- garding tlic nesting of any of the insects mentioned. It is perhaps unsafe to assert that the Sphecodes and Hoplopasites are par- asitic in the nest of the Anthidium, but the, facts point to euch a conclusion. The obser- rations were made at Mesillii Park at the end of May, and I am responsible for the identi- fication of the insects.-T. D. A. Cockeve//,]



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