THE INSECT VISITORS OF FLOWERS IN
NEW MEXICO.— II.
By T.D.A. Cockerell,
Entomologist of the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station.
The present paper relates mostly to some investigations made in September and October, 1897, during a trip northward up the Rio Grande Valley. The localities visited were Rincon, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Española, Embudo, and Rinconada.
Rincon, N. M., Sept. 14th.
While the train stopped I was able to do a few moments' collecting, and obtained three species of bees: —
(1). Nomia foxii, Dalla Torre. One female at flowers of Solanum elæagnifolium.
(2). Perdita callicerata, Ckll. At flowers of Baileya multiradiata.
(3). Halictus sp., apparently new, at flowers of Gutierrezia sarothræ.
Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 15th to 17th.
Altitude 5026 ft. Lat. 35°05'. Annual precipitation, 7·19 inches. Mean temperature: annual, 55·8°; for September, 68·5°.
The following flowers, which were collected, were not observed to be visited by bees:—Gaillardia, prob. pulchella, Aster multiflorus, Eriogonum rotundifolium, Orcocarya prob. suffrutescens, Abronia fragrans, Astragalus sp., Salvia lanceolata, Carlowrightia linearifolia, Anemiopsis californica, Chrysothamnus (i.e. Bigelovia) bigelovii, Flaveria angustifolia (almost over). The B. bigeloviii was common by the roadsides in the part of the town known as the Highlands, and was badly infested by some gall-making dipteron. I am indebted to Prof. E.O. Wooton for the names of these plants.
The following flowers were visited by bees: —
(1). Cleome serrulata; visited by Bombus morrisoni, Cr., Podalirius urbanus var. alamosanus (Ckll.), and Perdita zebrata, Cr.
(2). Grindelia sp.; visited by Ashmeadiella bucconis (Say), which is new to the fauna of New Mexico.
(3). Bigelovia wrightii; visited by Prosapis asinina var. bigeloviæ, Ckll. ined., Nomia nevadensis, Cr., Epeolus occidentalis, Cr., and
