A new Saturnian moth from the southwest

82 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

hahneli _{Spiiler (Biol.} Centralbl.,

xxvi,

p. 690, 1906).

Lord Walsingham ^{has from} Staudinger one of

the original speci-

mens taken by Hahnel

ⁱⁿ Brazil and,

though

ⁱⁿ

bad

condition, thinks itis certainly the

same

_{species as}

my Cryptoses

cholccpi,

of which Mr. Schaus gave

^a

specimen

to the British

Museum.

However,

^{as the}

specimen of B.

^{hahneli is in}

bad

condition

and

is

a

_parasite

on

the other species

of

sloth, there is still a

chance

that

we may ^{have two}

species

of

sloth

moths.

Sir

George

^{refers the}

genus

^{to the} Schcenobiinse,

on account of

the small

tongue

^;

he

_gives ^"

tongue absent

^{" as the character} for that subfamily. ^I

considered

^it to

be

_present,

but

it is

certainly

very

^small.

He

^also

sends me

a reference

by West- wood

tothe

occurrence of moths

ⁱⁿthe fur

of

thesloth

(Trans.

Ent. Soc.

London,

1877, p.

436), which _appears

to

be

the earliest reference.

A NEW SATURNIAN MOTH FROM THE SOUTHWEST."

By ^{HARRISON G. DYAR.}

A specimen standing under

the

name Agapema galbina

ⁱⁿ the

National Museum

collection for the last

fourteen

_years

was _long

since

recognized

^as

a

distinct species,

but no mate

to

it

had ever been

received.

Now a male specimen has been

sent

by Mr. Roberto

^Miiller

from Mexico

_City,

which, while more

brightly colored,

appears

^to

be

certainly the

same

_species.

It is

accordingly

characterized

herewith

:

Agapema homogena,

^{n. sp.}

Male. Antennae very broadly, doubly bipectinated, ocher-yellow.

Body

^clothed with long^blackish hair, paler^at the _tips of the segments, the feet reddish. Fore wings grayish black, finely interspersed with whitish hairs, the veins lined in carneous-ochraceous; inner line angled

on

the median _vein, white, overspread with pink; ^discal

mark

ocellate, black-edged and black-centered, containing an orange-ocherous annulus and a blue crescent on its inner _side; outer line white, rather broad and _straight, with a

narrow

inner pink edging; outer margin white, shading ^to clay-color

on

the edge; ^a white subapical dash edged with crimson below and _outwardly.

Hind wing

similar, the inner line wanting, the base broadly suffused with _pink; discal

mark

with the

lumen

_wholly or nearly occluded; outer ^line indented _slightly on the veins; margin ^as on fore wings, the

wing

^veins only obscurely pale- lined. Expanse, 65

mm.

"

Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

OF WASHINGTON. ⁸³

Female. Similar to the male, but the lining of the veins

much

^less

distinct, except on vein ₇ and the costa; all the colors are

somewhat

paler than in the male and the pink ^{tint is} wholly wanting, but ^this

may

^{be due to} age. In consequence ^{the basal} space appears darker than the rest of the wing, while

on

the hind

wing

^{the base is whitish.}

The

ocellate discal spots are

more

widely centered and _larger, that of the hind

wing

having ^{a distinct central lumen.} Expanse, 78

mm.

One

male,

Mexico

_City,

_Mexico, March _{1908 (R.}

_Miiller) ;

one

female,

Fly Park, Chiricahua

^Mts.,

Arizona, 10,000

feet,

June

9,

1894 (U.

^S.

Dept.

Agriculture).

Type. No.

_11871,

U.

S.

National Museum.

THREE NEW BEES OF THE GENUS NOMADA.

By

^T.

^{D. A. COCKERELL.}

Nomada mera,

^n. sp.

Female. Length, about ¹⁰

mm.

; anterior wing, 8

mm.

_Red, rather sparingly

marked

with black;

abdomen

above with _bright lemon-yellow markings, consisting of large pyriform ^lateral spots, the points ^di- rectedmesad, on segments ²and 3, and a pair of rather large spots

on

5;

no

_yellow

on

segment 4, oron _venter; no _yellow whatever onhead, thorax, or _legs; hair of _face, cheeks,

and

sides of thorax, white; of head above, and scutellum, ferruginous^; mandibles _simple; face with a

little black about ocelli and bases of antennae, and hind part of cheeks

black; antennas _entirely red, normal, long, the flagellum stout; joint 3 about two-thirds length of 4; mesothorax very densely and strongly punctured, with a single dark

band

; scutellum elevated, bigibbous^; metathorax with a median black band; tegulse bright ferruginous, punctured^; wings with _apical margin broadly fuscous; stigma dark, nervures black; b. n. going ^far basad of t. m.; second s. m. broad;

anterior and middle femora black beneath at base; hind femora mainly black behind and beneath; ^first abdominal segment ^{with a} large black

mark

_springing

from

the base on each side; pubescentband on apex ^of

fifth segment narrow^; pygidial plate broad and subtruncate. Close to N. cressonii Rob., but larger, and withno _yellow

on

fourth abdominal segment.

Salina,

Boulder County, Colorado, April

^14,

1907 (W.

^P.

Cockerell).

Nomada _mera,

var. ^a.

Female. Differsby ^its paler coloration, the hind femora red behind, with at most a slight blackish suffusion;

abdomen

paler, without any evident blackish suffusion at sides of segments.