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Extracted from: Melissodes thelypodii, Cockerell (1905) Am. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7)15, p. 527
Female. —Length about 15 mm.
General appearance and markings of abdomen like M. Martini, but differing as follows :-- Pubescence of thorax above bright fulvous, without any black, and covering more mesothorax; black hairs of vertex more conspicuous, being long and erect; eyes not so green, the lower part perhaps reddish in life; face more hairy, the hair faintly yellowish; clypeus more closely punctured; flagellum brighter red beneath; tegulae apricot-color. Wings larger, duskier, and less yellow; first recurrent nervure joining second submarginal cell near its end; outer side of third submarginal cell rounded (angled in Martini); hair on first abdominal segment pale fulvous that at base of second more less of the same color. In both species, the small joints of the middle and hind tarsi are red.
Hab. La Cueva, Organ Mts, New Mexico, about 5300 ft., at flowers of Thelypodium linearifolium, Sept. 4 (C. H. T. Townsend).
A pretty species, from the contrast between the black of the abdomen, with whitish bands, and the red of the thorax and bind tarsi.
Extracted from: Melissodes thurberiae, Cockerell, 1914 Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 16, p. 31
Female. Closely allied to and resembling M. thelypodii Ckll., to which it runs in my table in Trans. Amer. Ent. Society, 1906. It differs from thelypodii by the pale hair of thorax above (which agrees in character and arrangement with that of M. martini, except that there is no black hair); the wings darker and redder; the tegulae piceous, with the posterior margin broadly ferruginous; scutellum with a slight median longitudinal ridge.
The disc of mesothorax has considerably smaller and closer than M. martini Ckll., and they run principally in transverse lines. The same characters and the dark tegulae, readily distinguish it from M. hitei Ckll. Although the hair of thorax above is creamy white., there is a little orange tuft on base of wings. White hair appears at extreme sides of fifth abdominal segment, whereas in M. hitei the hair in this place is black. Head very broad; vertex in type with only one dark hair. Length of anterior wing 11.5 mm.
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