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February, 19011 PSYCHE. 163
SOME INSECTS OF THE HUDSONIAN ZONE IN NEW MEXICO.- 111. HYMENOPTERA APOIDEA.
Bombus proximus Cresson.
Abundant.
B. proximus var. howardi (Cress.)
A few flying with the typical form.
B. ternarius Say.
I 9.
B. juxtus Cress.
28, I?.
B, frigidus Smith.
I 9. New to New Mexico. Origi-
nally described from "~rctic America ;
Hudson's Bay." It is also known from
Great Slave Lake, Yukon River, Van-
couver I., and the high mountains of
Colorado. It has the closest possible
resemblance to B. derhamellus Kirby,
which I have from Innsbruck in the
Tirol, collected by Mr. Fricse. I be-
lieve that the B. derhamellus reported
by Kirby from Arctic America (Lat.
65') must have been frigiihis. When
in Philadelphia last year I saw Cresson's types of B.putnami and coz'fef-i, and it seems to be an open question whether
they are really separate from one an-
other and from frigidus; but it will be
necessary to make a careful study of
more abundant material than has yet
been available, to precisely fix the sta- tus of these forms.
Megachile wootoni Ckll.
I f . Belongs to a circumpolar
group, Megachile, s. str.
Halictoides (Parahalictoides)
maurus (Cresson).
I 8.
New to New Mexico.
Panurginus bakeri (Ckll.) .
I f at flowers of Potenfina (Dasi-
phum) fruticosa.
New to New Mexico.
P. cressoniellus CkIL
2 q, one at flowers of P'/er~./iUafru-
ticosa.
P. verus, n. sp.
I 9. Length 8 inm., entirely shining
black, even to the tarsi and flagellum ; head, thorax, leg's and apex of abdomen with
rathcr lone, white hair, that on the hind legs cnq-ing some orange pollen ; antennae
reaching the tegttlae ; face and clypeus with large sparse punctm-es; front minutely siri- aled, with small close punctures ; mesot.horax closely punctured at the sides, sparsely in the middle; first segment of abdomen shining'. with minute sparse punctures; following
segments minutely sculptured, with closer small pnncl~ires ; tegnlae shining jiiceous ; wings slightly dusky, stigma and nervures black; maygtval cell broadly obliquely h i - cute af #fie ed, appendiculate; first submar- ginal cell more than twice as large as second; first recurrent werviwejoining first submar- gind cell we// before its end; second recur- rent joining second ~uhn~:irå£;inn cell just hefore its end.
This is a very interesting species,
being a true Pam;?~/;z?~s of the type pre- dominant in Europe and Asia. It ap-
parent.1;' comes nearest to P. ~fC//71‰âÂ7 tris and P. ahico?a from the Caucasus,
and P. mo/~fa~zzts from the Alps. I have before me a specimen of P. mmtanus
collectecl by Mr. Friese at I nnsbruck,
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l(i4 I's YCm. [February, sgm.
at flowers of Raminculus, and it resem-
bles verus so closely that upon super-
ficial examination it could easily be mis- taken for it ; however, the first recurrent nervure in mo&zm~s is interstitial with
the second transverso-cubital, and the
marginal cell is bent where it leaves the costa, whereas in ~~erzis it is only curved, Andrena apacheorum Ckll.
19.
Halictus peraltus, n. sp.
r ,j' Length ha,-diy 7 mm.; black; the
broad anterior niargin of the cI?peus, and the iabrnm (but not the mandibles} lemon ?el- low; flagellum beneath, except at the extreme apex, pale chrome ?ellow; knees', anterior tibiae in front, and hind and middle tibiae narrowly at apex, pale yellow ; tarsi very pale ,-ellow, the last joint of the middle and hind in,-si d;u-1; brown ; tubercles wholly black ; teg'ulae d~ining piceuus ; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma very dark brown. Face elongate, clypeus produced, clypeus and sides of face covered with appressed shining white hair; vertex rough ; scape short; flagel1~-un stout and very long; mesothorax dull, mi- nutely roughened and with close punctures ; enclosure of mct~ithorax large. with nuincr- ous longituclinn.1 ridges connected by small transverse ones; first segment of abdomen shining, with minute sparse punctures; å£01 losving segments minutely sculptured so as to have a satiny lubtre.
Differs from H amatusf by the color
of the antennae and other characters ;
from H. sirnilis 8 by the color of the
nervures, entirely black tubercles, etc. The second recurrent nervnre enters the
third submarginal cell at least two-fifths from its end, the lower apical angles of the cell being produced, very differently from arcuaius and various related species, such as clympiae and kincaidii.
LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEKA
(part)
Clisiocampa fragilis Str.
Nemeophila petrosa Wk. var gem-
efrica- Grt.
Crocota aurantiaca Hbn. var tre-
7~icornis Walk.
Crambus dumetellus Hbn.
Loxostege sticticalis L.
Tortrix fumiferana Cl.
Stenoptilia exclamationis Wals. (?)
Really too poor for certain determina-
tion, but agreeing with others (equally
poor) from Colorado (Bruce) which
Prof. Fernald thought might be exclama-
fionis, originally described from the
mountains of California.
BY HERBERT OBBORN.
Nysius thymi Wolff. Slightly more
opaque in elytra than usual.
Lygaeus reclivatus Say.
Harmostes reflexulus Say.
Thyanta custator Fab.
Leptopterna amoena Uhler.
Camptobrochis ? sp.
This species seems to come properly
in this genus, and neargra-ndis but dif- fers from my specimens in being much
darker and the head is not nearly so
vertical.




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