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By T. D. A. COCKERELL,Of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
In all large museums, the entomological collections tend to accumu-late faster than they can be worked up. New species may be col-lected, and remain unstudied for many decades, and perhaps eventu-ally be described from specimens captured many years later. Thus,I have recently had occasion to work up some bees from Mexico inthe Berlin Museum, collected by Ferdinand Deppc as long ago as1829. Several were still new, but others had been published in themeanwhile by Cresson and myself. In the case of the United StatesNational Museum, the collections do not date so far back, but thereis nevertheless a quantity of valuable material among the bees, whichdeserves to be described or reported. It will be the purpose of thisseries of papers to discuss such portions of this material as may besubmitted to the present writer from time to time.In the descriptions of the venation the following abbreviations areused: s. m. = submarginal cell ; r. ti. = recurrent nervure; t. c. = trans-verse-cubital nervure; 6. 7i. = basal nervure; t. m. = transversomedialnervure.CERATINA (CERATINIDIA) HIEROGLYPHICA, var. JAPONICA, new variety.Female.?Prothorax, including tubercles, entirely black. Thespecimen is of the full size of liieroglypliica; the light reversed T on theclypeus has the arms longer than the stem, and the latter is partlydivided into two parts by a median longitudinal black line; the lat-eral face-marks are reduced to a longitudinal mark above and atransverse mark below; the mesothorax has two slender discal lines,and a short mark above each tegula; the scutellar patch is deeplynotched in front; the other markings call for no remark. Scapeentirely black.Habitat.?Japan (Koebele). C.liieroglyphica is quite variable, butthe mainland forms, including the Chinese var. morawitzii Stadel-mann, always have yellow on the prothorax, so far as I know.Tifpe.?Cat. No. 13420, U.S.N.M.
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636 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.39.A word may be added concerning the Philippine species of Cera-tinidia. As described, they can be separated as follows:Larger, length 9 to 11 mm., clypeus marked with yellow, scape with yellow only inmale (Philippines, see Ashmead) hieroglyphica Smith.Smaller, length 7 mm. or less 1.1. Clypeus, and scape in front yellow; "female" (?male) compacta Smith.Clypeus only marked with yellow 2.2. Scape of female nearly all yellow; lateral face-marks of female not divided into sepa-rate marks (Manila) -philippinensis Ashmead.Scape of female black; lateral face-marks divided tropica Crawford.The exact locality of comjjacta is unknown. I think it probablethat it came from one of the southern islands, as the greater develop-ment of yellow is characteristic of the more southern species of Oera-tinidia. There may perhaps be some doubt about the reputed sexesof the types of comjmda and ijihiliypinensis. Some years ago I hastilyexamined the ty|3e of i)hilii)pinensis and sketched the face-marks,which are essentially as in hieroglyphica. The vertical mark on theclypeus is strongly notched above. The difference in the lateralface-marks of tropica and philippinensis, as given in the table isprobably due to individual variation; at least, hieroglyphica varies inthis manner. It is probable that C. hieroglyphica does not reallyoccur in the Philippines, being represented there by the smaller forms(extremely closely allied to it) called philippinensis and tropica.Since writing the above, I have received from ]\Ir. S. A. Rohwerparticulars concerning C. tropica and philippinensis, each of which isrepresented by both sexes in the National Museum. The two formsare separable as follows: Female.Mesothorax with two pale lines; tibiae yellow, black beneath; abdominal markingsheavy, broader; clypeus with a large light reversed T; lateral face-marks not divided;scape partly light philippinensis Ashmead.Mesothorax unmarked; tibiae nearly entirely black; abdominal markings much nar-rower; clypeus with only a transverse subapical light bar; lateral face marks eachdivided into two spots; scape dark tropica Crawford.Males.Pale spot on scutellum quadrate; tibiae yellow except a black spot beneath; clypeusyellow; lateral face-marks broader; scape partly light philippinensis Ashmead.Pale spot on scutellum triangular; tibiae black except a pale line above; clypeus dark,with a very broad light bar, which has a median lobe or process above; lateral face-marks narrower; scape dark tropica Crawford.APIS INDICA JAPONICA Radoszkowski.
Worlcer.?Darker than typical indica; bases of abdominal segments3 to 5 with conspicuous narrow whitish hair-bands.Form a. Scutellum dark; abdomen without fulvous. SapporoAgricultural College, Japan, December, 1896 (M. Matsumura). Twoexamples.
NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 637Form b. Scutellum dull yellow; second abdominal segment vari-ably fulvous, always so at base. Japan, two examples (Mitsukuri)
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Swatow, China (Koebele).Male.?Abdomen broad and short, black without bands, but withdense pale hair at base. Japan, No. 127.This is a feebly distinguished subspecies, perhaps originally confinedto Japan, but now occurring also in China. It always has thelabrum more or less reddish or yellowish, as usual in the indica group.Ashmead makes A. cerana Fabricius a distinct species, with sinensisSmith and jayonica Radoszkowski as synonyms. The identity ofcerana seems to be doubtful, and sinensis is not the same variety (ina restricted sense) as ja'ponica. Smith records A. nigrocincta Smithalso from Japan. I have a Chinese nigrocincta from Smith's collec-tion, and can not agree with Buttel-Reepen's view that it is identicalwith peroni Latreille. True peroni, as described by Latreille, has thefulvous color confined to the first three abdominal segments, whilenigrocincta has all the segments fulvous, with black borders.
APIS INDICA PERONI Latreille.
I refer here to a series of specimens from Pekin, China (M. L, Robb)and Foochow, China (J. P. Grant). The amount of fulvous on theabdomen varies, from that required by the original description (firsttwo segments fulvous except broad hind margins, base of third fulvous)to the small amount at base described for the variety picea Buttel-Reepen. These are evidently only individual variations. The scu-tellum is usually dark, but sometimes dull yellow. There is also aworker peroni from Horisha, Formosa (T. Fukai).
APIS INDICA Fabricius.Shanghai, China (E. Deschamps). A pallid form, with the scapered. XYLOCOPA CIRCUMVOLANS Smith.Japan; three females and one male. One female is from Tokyo.The male and two females were collected by Mitsukuri. One femalelabeled "Southern China" has the middle of the occiput with yellowhair, to that extent approaching X. appendiculata Smith, but other-wise it is like circumvolans. Perez suggests that appendiculata andcircumvolans are varieties of a single species.XYLOCOPA LATIPES (Drary).Buitenzorg, Java (D. G. Faircliild); Trong, Lower Siam (W. L.Abbott); Thagata, Tenasserim (Fea). In Bingham's description ofthe male (Fauna of British India) for tibiae read basitarsi.XYLOCOPA LUNULATA MINENSIS Cockerell.South China; one male.
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XYLOCOPA CONFUSA Perez.Bg. Tambclan Island, China Sea (W. L.Abbott); Trong, LowerSiam (W. L. Abbott); Shanghai, China (E. Deschamps) ; Buitenzorg,Java (D. G. Fairchild). XYLOCOPA SINENSIS Smith.Four females from Foochow, China (H. E. Caldwell). This is thetype-locality. XYLOCOPA COLLARIS Lepeletier.Khow Sai Dow Mountain, 1,000 feet, Lower Siam (W. L.Abbott);Trong, Lower Siam (W. L. Abbott).XYLOCOPA NITIDIVENTRIS Smith.Kukiar, eastern Turkestan, July 28, 1894 (W. L. Abbott).XYLOCOPA COLLARIS NIGRESCENS Friese.Like X. coUaris lingliami Cockerell, from theKhasia Hills, but dis-tinguished as follows:Female.?Abdomen distinctly greenish; light hair of front andsides of thorax bright fulvous, that on thorax in front more extensiveand not distinctly defined posteriorly; sides of mesothorax and hindpart of scutellum with short pale fulvous hair; wings, as in hinghami,paler than in t3"pical coUaris.Male.?Almost exactly like linghami, but a little larger (lengthabout 21 mm.), and the fifth abdominal segment wdth a broad bandof pale hair, which is separated from the pale-haired part of abdomenin front by a dark band (the first four segments being pale-haired).Ilahitat.?Ilorisha, Formosa (T. Fukai).This was described as new^, but after the manuscript was sent inFriese published it as X. sauteri, var. nigrescens.The following table separates the males of the coUaris type:
First four abdominal segments pale-haired, and a broad pale band on fifth. . nigrescens.First three segments pale-haired hinghami.First two segments pale-haired coUaris (dejeani).SPHECODES JAPONICUS, new species.Male.?Length 8 to 9 mm.; head and thorax black, very coarselypunctured, with dull white pubescence conspicuous on the face, pro-thorax (including tubercles), and pleura; mandibles dark; head trans-versely oval; face very broad, orbits strongly converging below; an-tennae black, joints 2 and 3 mere rings, shorter together than fourth;joints 5 to 13 greatly swollen below, so that the flagcllum is very stronglycrenulated; mesothorax and scutellum wntli very large, irregular,partly confluent punctures; metathorax very coarsely sculptured allover with irregular ridges; posterior face of metathorax ill-defixied
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NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL 31USEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 639having a strong median sulcus; tegulse piceous at base, but the outerhalf pallid; wings hyaline basally, but the outer half of anterior andthird of posterior suffused with dark fuscous; second s. m. narrow,receiving first r. n. at beginning of last third; third s. m. very large;legs black with pale hair, the knees and last joint of tarsi red ; abdo-men shining, sparsely punctured, constricted at base of second seg-ment; first segment black except sides and broad apical margin,which are red; second and third segments entirely red, fourth andfollowing segments black.Habitat.?Japan; two males. The name adopted was given inmanuscript by Aslimead, without description.Type.?Csit. No. 13422, U.S.N.M.Resembles the Indian S . fumipennis Smith in most respects, but thewings are more broadly pale at base, and the abdomen shows moreblack. S. oriundus Vachal, from Japan, differs by the proportions ofthe antennal joints and the lighter wings. There is much resem-blance to the European 8. gihhus. The antennae are quite of thegihhus type, but the fourth joint is considerably shorter.SPHECODES MONTANUS Smith.Bingham (Fauna of British India) states that the wings are hya-line, but I have examined Smith's type and find them pale fuscous.OSMIA CHALYBEA Smith.Edna, Texas, March 25, 1907 (F. C. Bishopp).OSMIA LIGNARIA Say.Dallas, Texas, March 7-17, at flowers of Cercis cafnadensis (Bishopp,Hood, and Cushman); Pittsburg, Texas, April 7 (F. C. Bishopp);Paris, Texas, March 3 and April 15 (A. A, Girault and C. T. Brues);Ardmore, Oklahoma, March 12, at flowers of peach (Bishopp) ; Mound,Louisiana, on turnip, March 7 (Bishopp).OSMIA MITSUKURII, new species.Female.?Length almost 12 mm.; head and thorax obscure green-ish; abdomen black, with the hind margins of the segments ratherbroadly fulvous; ventral scopa orange, but seeming redder than itreally is, owing to the orange pollen it carries ; hair of head and thoraxlong but not dense, rather dull white more or less mixed with black,not at all oclu^eous or fulvous; face and vertex with much dark hair;lower part of cheeks with a large beard of white hair; dark hair ofthorax above scanty; clypeus with a great triangular shining blackexcavation, strongly keeled down the middle, and bounded on eachside by a large triangular projecting lamina; part of clypeus outsideof the excavation green and punctured, the part just above the apexof excavation somewhat keeled; mandibles broad, tridentate, but the
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middle tooth short, and the broad inner one rudimentary; malarspace short but distinct; mesothorax and scutellum shining, wellpunctured, but not very densely; tegulse dilute orange; wings hya-line stained with reddish-brown; legs black with red spurs; hair onmiddle basitarsus conspicuously red, on hind basitarsus dark fuscous;abdomenwithouthair-bandsorspots, butwithscanty long pale hair, andfuscous subapically on fourth and fifth segments; last dorsal segmentwith fine appressed hair. The flagellum is faintly reddish beneath.Habitat.?Japan; No. 134, probably collected by Mitsukuri.Type.?Cat. No. 13423, U.S.N.M.Closely related to 0. taurus Smith, from which it is known by theabsence of fulvous pubescence on head and thorax, and to 0. exca-vata Alfken, which is, however, only 8^ mm. long. The area of themetathorax is dull and without evident sculpture, and the abdomenis rather long. As seen from above the general size and shape recalls0. fulviventris Latreille, but fulviventris has a larger head, a blue-black abdomen, and a brilliantly shining area of metathorax. 0.fulviventris has an orange scopa, and the structure of its clypeus showsa certain approach to the condition in 0. mitsukurii.OSMIA MATSUMURiE, new species.Male.?Length about 8^ mm. ; head and thorax very dark bluish-green; abdomen dark olive green, the apical margins of the segmentsextremely narrowly, hardly noticeably, testaceous; antennae long andslender, black, last joint normal; face with abundant long white hair,as also cheeks below; more or less pale hair on upper part of head, butsides of front, vertex, and upper parts of cheeks with a good deal ofblack hair; head and thorax quite closely punctured, scutellum lessclosely; area of metathorax dull, without evident sculpture, some-what shining in certain lights; hair of thorax long, slightly yellowish,not mixed with black; tegulae piceous, slightly rufous in middle;wings brownish-hyaline; recurrent nervures entering second sub-marginal cell at about the same distance from base and apex, whereasin 0. mitsukurii the first recurrent enters about twice as far from thebase as the second from the apex ; legs black with pale hair ; last twotarsal joints ferruginous; hind basitarsus simple with ferruginous hairon inner side; abdomen with scanty long hair like that of the thorax;sixth segment entire, quite simple, not reflexed; seventh entire,broadly truncate ; ventral segments quite simple ; stipites simple, witha mere obtuse median angulation; notch in sagittal plate a littlelonger than half breadth of plate.Habitat.?Sapporo, Japan (Matsumura). Apparently close to 0.mitsukurii, but owing to the quite different tegulse and the venationcan not be its male. It is structurally similar to the male of 0. taurus,and among European species to 0. hicornis Linnaeus. IType.?C&t. No. 13424, U.S.N.M.
NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 641CROCISA JAPONICA Friese.One from Japan. C. centrimacula Perez, also from Japan, and pub-lished in the same year (1905) is very closely allied, but apparentlyseparable by the pattern of the first abdominal segment, the white(instead of blue) hair on hind basitarsi, and some other small details.BOMBUS SAPPOROENSIS, new species.Female.?Like the European B. terrestris Linnaeus, but hair on lastthree abdominal segments pale reddish-fulvous; yellow bands onsecond abdominal segment and prothorax pale and dull, the thoracicone with black hairs intermixed; labrum with a transverse curvedridge, and below this much red hair; third antennal joint about aslong as fifth, fourth a little shorter; malar space broader than long.Habitat.?Japan; from M. Matsumura, Sapporo Agricultural Col-lege. This is a Japanese form of terrestris, regarded as a distinctspecies because the European terrestris seems to present no such color-variety. B. terrestris jajjonicus Friese, 1909, has the end of the abdo-men black; it may perhaps be a variation of sajjporoensis, but if so,the name japonicus is not available, having been earlier used byDalla Torre. B. liarmandi Perez has the abdomen colored like thatof sapporoensis, but it is a species w^ith elongated head, allied toB. hortorum.Type.?Csii. No. 13425, U.S.N.M.BOMBUS SENILIS Smith.One worker; Sapporo Agricultural College, Japan, December, 1896(M. Matsumura). Smith described only the female. The workerlooks exactly like B. silvarum, but the specimen before me has thelight pubescence creamy-white, with a strong yellow tinge on thesecond abdominal segment.BOMBUS DIVERSUS Smith, 1869.Eleven from Japan; some collected by Mitsukuri. One is fromTokyo. These agree with a diversus from F. Smith's collection.Friese makes both diversus Smith and japonicus Dalla Torre {termi-nalis Smith, 1873) varieties of B. hortorum, subspecies ussurensisRadoszkowski, 1877. If this is considered correct priority demandsthat diversus be used for the subspecies.BOMBUS IGNITUS Smith.Seven from Japan; some collected by Mitsukuri. Very likeB. lapidarius Linnaeus, but malar space shorter. Perez considersthat it is structurally nearer to B. terrestris. The pubescence ofignitus varies, the black becoming a dark chocolate brown, as is alsoseen in B. hsemorrlioidalis. This brown variation is especially markedin a female labeled "South Cliina." This Chinese ignitus is readilyknown from B. simillimus Smith by the paler wings.Proc.N.M.vol.39?10 43
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BOMBUS SPECIOSUS Smith.Seven from Japan (Mitsukuri). This greatly resembles theChinese B. trifasciatus Smith, but is clearly distinct.BOMBUS BICOLORATUS Smith.Horisha, Formosa (T. Fukai).BOMBUS BIZONATUS Smith.One female; Tagdumbash, Pamir, 13,000 feet, June 9, 1894(W. L. Abbott). In Schmeideknecht's tables this runs nearest tonivalis, but is not of that group. It looks much like hraccatus Friese,but differs in the antennae, mandibles, etc. It is very close toB. hortorum, but distinct.The following characters may be noted: Mandibles stronglynotched near inner apical corner; third antennal joint about as longas 4 + 5; third s. m. much longer than in liortorum; apical segmentsof abdomen whitish-red, black abdominal band narrow, thoracic bandmuch narrower than in liortorum.CHELYNIA ELEGANS Cresson.Two from Flagstaff, Arizona, at flowers of Iris, June 11, 1909(F. C. Pratt). HABROPODA PEKINENSIS, new species.Male.?Closely related to //. zonatula Smith; on comparison witha zonatula from Smith's collection (Nicopolis, May, 1836) the follow-ing differences are found: A little less robust; abdomen narrower,less triangular, more as in Antlioyhora; pubescence paler, not so red;flagellum longer and more slender, fourth antennal joint much longer;first r. n. not quite reaching apex of second s. m.; black on clypeusreduced, the middle broadly yellow to top, the large black markingsvariable, but constricted in middle; pygidial plate much broader;anterior femora strongly keeled beneath at base; hind tarsi red.The anterior coxse have the characteristic long backwardly-directedspines, and the hind basitarsi the great flattened lamina. The maleis the type.Female.?About 16 mm. long, with the same ochreous hair coveringthorax, the same black abdomen with light hair-bands; face, man-dibles, and antennae entirely dark; fifth abdominal segment with thehair clear fox-red in middle, cream-colored at sides; scopa of hindlegs light golden-ferruginous; eyes pale green, stained with red.Habitat.?Pekin, China, 1901 (M. L. Robb). Four males; April19 (2), April 20, April 21. Twenty-three females; April 19 (12),April 20 (5), April 21 (5), April 22 (1).Type.?Cat. No. 13426, U.S.N.M.
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NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 643Known from H. Icrishna Bingham by the deep yellow face markingsof male (face marks white in Tcrishna) ; from H. fulvipes Cameron bythe absence of light face marks in the female, and the dark legs (legsare fulvous in iemale fulvipes) ; from H. montana Radoszkowski bythe dark, pale-banded abdomen (abdomen densely covered with hairin montana); from H. magrettii Bingham by the black flagellum ofthe male and the darker legs; from H. modleri Bingham by the darkabdomen (abdomen and legs honey-yellow in mcdleri); from H.halassogloi Radoszkowski by the black flagellum of the male, etc.;from H. tumeri Cockerell by the unicolorous hair of thorax^ etc.ANTHOPHORA ZONATA (Linnaeus).Four from Foochow, China (H. R. Caldwell).ANTHOPHORA FIMBRIATA Smith.Khow Sai Dow Mountain, 1,000 feet. Lower Siam (W. L.Abbott);Trong, Lower Siam (W. L. Abbott). These females differ from thetype as described by Bingham and Smith by having the metathoraxblack-haired. The hair of the thorax above is not "grey," as Bing-ham states, or " bluish-white, tipped with black," as Smith has it,but is very pale blue mixed with black. This species strongly imitatesMesotridiia ahhotti Cockerell, which lives in the same region.MEGACHILE XYLOCOPOIDES Smith.Five females, Mansfield, Louisiana, at flowers of Helenium tenui-folium, July 4 and August 22 (F. C. Bishopp).MEGACHILE VELUTINA Smith.One female, Khow Sai Dow Mountain, 1,000 feet. Lower Siam,February, 1899 (W. L. Abbott) ; five females, Trong, Lower Siam,January, February, 1899 (W. L. Abbott). Only one (Trong) has thefirst two abdominal segments with red hair ; the others have the firstand basal part of second with red hair. The allied M. dimidiatavaries in the same manner, according to Bingham. The one fromthe mountain is smaller than the others.HETERANTHIDIUM CHIPPEWAENSE (Graenicher).
I am indebted to Doctor Graenicher for a cotype of his Anthidiumchippewaense; it proves to belong to Tleteranthidium.DLANTHIDIUM ILLUSTRE (Cresson).At Flagstaff, Arizona, at flowers of his, June 11, 1909, Mr. F. C.Pratt took a large variety of the female of this species, about 17 mm.long, the width of the abdomen fully 6 mm. The wings are very dark;the first r. n. joins the second s. m. a short distance from base (as in
644 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 39.A. conspicuum) , and the second goes a like distance beyond apex.There is a small pulvillus, present also in typical illustre. I thinkthere is no doubt that Anthidium illustre must be referred toDiantliidium. The Flagstaff specimen also has these characters:First two abdominal bands notched behind laterally; black on innerside of hind femora not notched; other colors, of head, legs, etc., nor-mal; hair of face, and head and thorax above strongly reddish;yellow occipital band not interrupted. This female takes on some ofthe color characters normal for the male. It is possible that a dis-tinct subspecific form of D. illustre exists in the region about Flag-
staff, but more material is needed to decide this.NOMADA BELFRAGEI, var. XANTHOGASTER, new variety.
Female.?Agrees with Cresson's description of N. hefragei, exceptas follows: Only a slight blackish suffusion about ocelli; thoracicmarkings clear lemon yellow; abdominal segments 1 to 5 each witha very broad lemon yellow band, but those on first and second nar-rowly interrupted in middle, and that on first including a small redspot on each side posteriorly; venter with yellow spots down themiddle, those on segments 3 and 4 large and conspicuous. As intrue helfragei (concerning which I have notes from Mr. Viereck, basedon Cresson's type), the third antennal joint is conspicuously largerthan the fourth, and the basal nervure meets the transversomedial.The second s. m. is considerably narrowed above, and receives thefirst r. n. a little beyond the middle. The anterior coxal spines arepresent, but very short. From the related N. wheeleri Cockerell thisis easil}^ known by the entirely terra-cotta red mesothorax and meta-thorax. Supei-ficially, it looks exactly like N. lamarensis Cockerell,but is easily separated by the very large, strongly punctured tegulse;the much lighter wings; and the hair at apex of abdomen all pale(much black in lamarensis) . The coarsely punctured abdomen sepa-rates it at once from the similar species of Xanthidium.Habitat.?Texas (Belfrage).Type.?Cat. No. 13427, U.S.N.M.NOMADA MACULIFRONS, var. COMPARATA, new variety (? new species).Female.?Length about 10 mm.; differs from Smith's descriptionof maculifrons as follows: Lateral black bands of mesothorax muchenlarged, so that it is better described as black marked with red;antennae clear ferruginous, not at all fuscous above; vertex and frontexcept sides (which are red) black, the black extending down to sidesof clypeus, but inclosing a large red supraclypeal mark; metathoraxblack, with two obscure small red spots on each side; scutellumblack, strongly bigibbous, the gibbosities yellow with a red margin;
NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 645postscutellum with a short yellow band; band on fourth abdominalsegment notched but not interrupted; that on fifth divided into twolarge spots; third ventral segment with two large yellow marks,fourth with one. Especially characteristic of the species is the large,smooth and shining yellow mark on each side of face. Structural char-acters, not mentioned by Smith, are as follows: Mandibles simple;third antennal joint shorter than fourth, though both are quite long;tegulse rather large, well punctured; area of metathorax rugosebasally; wings long; h. n. going far basad of t. m.; second s. m.receiving first r. n. before middle; abdomen very finely punctured;crescentic apical patch rather large. The femora, tibias, and tarsiare entirely red, except that the hind femora have a blackish streakbehind. The tubercles are prominent, yellow margined with red, andthe upper border of the prothorax is yellow, red at each side. Thereis a very large red patch on the pleura. This is perhaps a distinctspecies, but as it is evidently close to N. maculifrons, and I have notbeen able to compare specimens ; I leave it for the present as a variety.The abdomen, in its color and pattern, shows a strong superficialresemblance to that of N. ruficornis Linnaeus, variety, from Jena;but in the ruficornis the yellow spot on the third segment is sublateralinstead of lateral, and there is no yellow spot laterad of the band onthe fourth. In Schmiedeknecht's table of European species it runsto 52, and runs out because the yellow spots on scutellum are sepa-rated, and the hind tibial apical spinules are red. It runs nearest toN. lineola Panzer, which it really does resemble to a considerableextent.Habitat.?Japan.Type.?Cat. No. 13428, U.S.N.M.NOMADA RUFICORNIS KOEBELEI, new subspecies.
Female.?Length about 9 mm., not especially robust, ferrugmous,marked with black and yellow, the yellow confined to the abdomen.Head broad, ferruginous, including labrum and the simple mandibles;a black band extends from each side of clypeus to middle of front,which is broadly black; ocelli on a black patch, but a transverse redband in front of them; eyes light red; antennae long, rather thick,entirely ferruginous; third joint long, but shorter than the very longfourth; fifth about as long as third; mesothorax and scutellum littlehairy, very densely punctured; mesothorax with three black bands,the lateral ones partly evanescent; scutellum moderately elevated,entirely red; area of metathorax large, triangular, plicate at base;metathorax with a broad median black band, becoming greatlyenlarged below the area ; mesopleura red ; tegulae red, well punctured
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s. m. not nearly so broad as third, receiving first r. n. beyond themiddle; legs red, the femora wholly without black; abdomen brightferruginous, nearly the basal half of first segment black, the marginof the black straight; first segment wholly without yellow; secondwith a very large triangular lemon-yellow mark on each side, the dis-tance between the yellow patches less than the length of one; thirdsegment without yellow; fourth with an interrupted yellow band;fifth with a very large quadrate yellow patch, about twice as broadas long ; apical pubescent lunule narrow (anteroposteriorly) ; pygidialplate broad; apical hair pale brown; tliird and fourth ventral seg-ments each with a broad yellow band. Japan (Koebele) ; =type.Female (var. a.).?Third antennae joint shorter; middle of faceblack, with a red supraclypeal spot; metathorax with more black;&. n. going some distance basad of t. m.; second s. m. broader, receiv-ing first r. n. at middle; femora with a little black at extreme base;band on fourth abdominal segment entire ; no yellow on undersideof abdomen. Japan. "23.4" on the label may mean that it wastaken on April 23. This is very possibly a distinct species.Male.?Agrees in venation with the type female. Head andthorax black; broad lower margin of clypeus, mandibles except tips,labrum, and very narrow lateral face-marks ending in a point aboutlevel of antennae, all yellow; scape stout, black behind, red in front,with a yellow patch on inner (mesad) side; flagellum black above,ferruginous beneath; third antennal joint much shorter than fourth;posterior half of tubercles, and two small spots on scutellum, red;middle femora with a black band behind, hind femora largely black;black of first abdominal segment broadly lobed in middle, and a smallblack spot on each side; second segment with a broad black basaltriangle, projecting between the yellow marks; third and fourth withabout the basal half black; third with a yellow band below the blackon each side; fourth with a narrow interrupted yellow band; fifthwith a patch; apical plate truncate, not notched; venter with largeyellow markings. Japan, No. 163.Type.?Cut. No. 13429, U.S.N.M.I first compared this insect with the Old World Nomadse, in mycollection, and concluded that it was very close to N. ruficornis(Linnaeus). I then ran it in Schmiedeknecht's tables of EuropeanNomada, and found that the male ran directly to ruficornis; the femaleless certainly, but still better there than anywhere else. It is wellknown that N. ruficornis is exceedingly polymorphic, and while theJapanese insect may be specifically distinct, and perhaps the var. ais another species, it seems best to treat the scanty material at presentavailable as a subspecies only. On the whole, it evidently comesnearest to the northern variety glabella Thomson. The male is verylike the American N. illinoensis Robertson.
NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 647NOMADA FRIESIANA Cockerell.This has been known only by the unique type. The U. S. Na-tional Museum contains 2 females collected at Denver, Colorado,May 23, 1898. The name of the collector does not appear on thelabels. The insect has a curious superfcial resemblance to theEuropean Pasites maculatus.NOMADA HAKONENSIS. new species.Male.?Length slightly over 6 J mm.; head and thorax black,densely punctured, with the usual amount of hair, which is paleochreous above and white beneath; head broader than long; lowermargin of clypeus, narrowly in middle, broadly at sides, lower cor-ners of face, ending in a fine point above which hardly reaches levelof antennae, labrum, and mandibles except their ferruginous apices,
all yellow; mandibles simple; labrum densely covered with light hair;eyes pale greenish; antennae long, black above, ferruginous beneath,the red on the rather stout scape reduced to a streak; third antennaljoint hardly half length of fourth; fourth long; fifth longer thanthird; tubercles and a little of upper margin of prothorax red, butscutellum, etc., wholly black; area of metathorax shining and stronglyplicate basally ; femora with much black; tibiae and tarsi red, the tibiaewith a weak black stripe; hind basitarsi, dark above; tegulas fer-ruginous ; wings strongly dusky on apical margin ; stigma and nervuresdark ferruginous; h. n. going far basad of t. m.; second s. m. aboutas broad above as below, receiving first r. n. before the middle;abdomen shining, without distinct punctures, dull ferruginousmarked with black, the markings suffused, the general effect beingvery dark red; first segment with the basal half black, the blackbroadly lobed in middle, and having a dark spot on each side; theother segments obscurely blackish at base; hind margins of segments,especially the posterior ones, more or less pale golden; apical platedeeply notched; venter dark ferruginous.Habitat.?Hakone, Japan (Koebele).Type.?Cat. No. 13430, U.S.N.M.A small species of Nomada s. sir., quite different from all thosereported from Japan, but superficially like the European N. Jiavo-guttata. In Schmiedeknecht's table it runs near to N. fabriciana(Linnaeus), but it is by no means identical.NOMADA XANXmDICA Cockerell.A slight variety of the female having the metathorax wholly black.Two from Peking, China (M. L. Robb). One is dated May 7, 1901.NOMADA ZEBRATA Cresson.Male.?At flowers of Heliantlius pumilus, Boulder, Colorado,July 21, 1908 (S. A. Rohwer); female, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1899(No. 26).
648 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.39.NOMADA LIBATA Cresson.Female.?Custer County, Colorado (Cockerell). This fine specieslooks exactly like N. vallesina Cockerell, except that it is largerand more robust. The following differences appear on minute com-parison:Inner orbits almost parallel; third antennal joint longer; anterior coxse with a rudi-mentary spine; scutellum slightly bigibbous; apical part of flagellum darkened;cheeks entirely red; tegulse large N. libata.Inner orbits diverging above; third antennal joint shorter; scutellum strongly bigib-bous; apical part of flagellum red like the rest; posterior part- of cheeks black;tegulae ordinary iV. vallesina.NOMADA SEMISCITA Cockerell.A male from Denver, May 26, 1898, has a short broad supra-clypeal mark in the manner of N. martinella and scita. The speciesdiffers from these by the comparatively short and thick fourthantennal joint (in martinella this joint is quite long and excavatedon the outer side), the fifth joint with a prominent thorn-like spine,the second s. m. receiving the first r. n. at the middle (beyond inmartinella), the postscutellum entirely black, the two light markson the first abdominal segment each inclosing a ferruginous spot.In the new specimen the apical plate of the abdomen is stronglynotched. This is perhaps the male of N. frieseana.NOMADA SCITA Cresson.Males are from Denver, Colorado, May 26, 1898; Colorado, 2076(Baker collection), and Los Pinos, Colorado, at Erigeron May 22, 1899.This is smaller than male N. martinella, but on comparing a seriesthe supposed differential characters seem evanescent and I am notaltogether satisfied that the two species are distinct. The femaleof N. scita has not been described, but one was taken by Baker atLos Pinos, Colorado, on Erigeron, May 22, 1899. It is smaller anddarker than .V. martinella, but otherwise similar. Comparison wasmade with the usual Colorado martinella; but the true type of thatspecies from New Mexico was small, though clear bright red.NOMADA MARTINELLA Cockerell.The U. S. National Museum contains 7 females from Colorado(Baker 2076 and 1332). In my original description ** for Sioux Cityread Sioux County.NOMADA (MELANOMADA) HELENIELLA, new species.Female.?Length 5-5| mm. ; head and thorax black, abdomen clearred; mandibles rather dark red; face broad, covered with appressedpale hair; antennae dark, third joint reddish, shorther than fourth on
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under side; tegulse shining dusky red; wings dusky at apex; h. n.meeting t. m.; legs dark reddish-brown, with white hair; sides andapex of abdomen with white hair. Closely resembles N. grindelisRdiffering by the smaller size and slightly in coloration. The abdomenmay have a slight dusky suffusion. In both species there is a semi-circular finely white-tomentose area at the end of the abdomen.Male.?Length about 4^ mm.; resembling N. grindelix, but muchsmaller, with the abdomen variably suffused with reddish at theapices of the first two segments.Habitat.?Victoria, Texas, at flowers of Helenium tenuifolium'Nuttall,September 26, 1904 (J. C. Crawford). Four males and three femalesare before me, and as the small size is uniform, I think the speciesmust be considered distinct. Mr. S. A. Rohwer had already recog-nized it as new. There is some question whether Melanomada shouldnot stand as a distinct genus. Mr. J. C. Crawford examined themouth-parts of N. grindelise, and found that the maxillary palpi hadjoints 3 to 5 subequal, 6 longer; joint 2 about equal to 3 + 4; joint 1shortest. He pointed out that the development of joint 2 wascharacteristic.Type.?Csit. No. 13431, U.S.N.M.There is a rather close resemblance between Melanomada andViereckella. Doctor Graenicher has sent me both sexes of VierecJcellapilosula (Nomada pilosula Cresson) from Milwaukee, Wisconsin,where it flies in July and August. Both sexes have the abdomenblack, resembling the male of Melanomada. The males are separableby several good characters, as follows:Face broad, inner orbits parallel; venation ordinary for Nomada, second s. m. receivingfirst r. n. well before end, third s. m. narrow above; legs ordinary; apical plateof abdomen broad, rounded, broadest at base Melanomada.Inner orbits strongly converging above, so that the lateral ocelli are distant from eyesless than their own diameter; second s. m. receiving first r. n. very near end, third
s. m. very broad above; middle and hind femora incrassate; apical plate of abdomenspoon-like, narrower toward base Viereckella.The type of N. Jieleniella is a female.NOMADA WHEELERI ENGELMANNI^, new subspecies.Female.?Length 7^ to 9 mm,, agreeing with the description ofN. wheeleri except as follows: Light markings cream-color; red linealong anterior orbits interrupted in frontal region; mesothorax witha broad black band, and the red in front deeply emarginate on eachside; light color of scutellum narrowed but not divided in middle;pleura red, broadly margined, except below, with black, and withno yellow spot; wings more dusky, the broad apical margin dark;first abdominal segment with the basal half black; second and thirdsegments with much black at base, band on second narrowly orbroadly interrupted, but always extremely broad laterally.
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Habitat.?Dallas, Texas, May 22, 1906, at flowers of Engelmanniapinnatijida Torrey and Gray (W. S. Pierce) ; also one from Dallas,May 17, 1908 (F. C. Bishopp). Perhaps a distinct species, but cer-tainly very close to N. wheeleri, which is known from a single speci-men. These species fall in a little group, in which the coxal spinesare not distinctly developed, and yet the insects accord in generalwith the subgenus Micronomada.Type.?Csit. No. 13432, U.S.N.M.The following key contrasts the members of this group
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Mesothorax at least largely red (Texas) 1.Mesothorax black without red 2.1. Markings yellow; pleura with a yellow spot wheeleri Cockerell.Markings cream-color; pleura without a yellow spot engelmannix Cockerell.2. Markings yellow (Virginia) mimula Cockerell.Markings creamy-white (Washington State) jennei Cockerell.Since the above was written I have examined two males of N.wheeleri engelmannix collected by Mr. C. L. Marlatt in Riley County,Kansas, September. They have the following distinctive characters
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Length about 9^ mm.; coxal spines absent; face light lemon yellowup to level of antennse, the lateral face marks extending obliquelyupward laterally, ending in a sharp point on orbital margin nearlevel of middle of scape; supraclypeal mark square; labrum, andbase of mandibles broadly, pale yellow; posterior orbital marginnarrowly pale yellow ; scape greatly swollen, entirely hrigJit ferrugi-nous red; flagellum darker red; third antennal joint much longerthan fourth; mesothorax very densely punctured, entirely black;metathorax black, with a small red spot on each side; upper bor-der of prothorax, tubercles, tegulse, scutellum, and postscutellumcream-color; pleura with a very large red patch, inclosmg a variableyellow one; legs red, hind coxae with a large whitish spot; abdomenlike that of female; apical plate broad and rounded, with a feeblyindicated notch. Some one had labeled this ^'heilighrodtii Cresson ? ".It is entirely different from the described male of heilighrodtii, which(according to Viereck, who examined the type for me) has a slenderscape. I have long thought that the described male of heilighrodtiidid not truly belong with the female, but the female of the presentinsect is known, and is quite distinct from heilighrodtii.NOMADA RUBICUNDA Olivier.Liberty, Texas, 2 females, March 18, 1908 (E. S. Tucker).NOMADA ARTICULATA Smith.Mound, Louisiana, April 2 (F. C. Bishopp) and May 12 (C. R.Jones). Boulder, Colorado, nesting in my garden, June (Cockerell).I examined the spine on the anterior coxa of a Louisiana male, andfound it about 150 /x long, very broad at base, hidden among plumosehairs twice its length, which carry pollen.
NO. 1806. BEE^ IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 651NOMADA LIMATA Cresson.Brownsville, Texas, November 24, 1909 (F. C. Pratt). A speciesheretofore known from tropical Mexico only. N. 'pampicola Holm-berg, which I have from Paraguay (Schrottky), is closely allied.NOMADA VIERECKI Cockerell.Ladonia, Texas, May 25, 1904, at flowers of Rudheckia (Bishopp).Previously known only from New Mexico and the State of Chihuahua,Mexico. NOMADA GARCIANA Cockerell.This species was described from a specimen taken in the MesillaValley, New Mexico. The specimens from Texas have a slightlydifferent aspect, but after careful comparison I can not find anycharacters on which to separate another species. The insect lookslike a small N. texana, but the mesothorax is shining, with wellseparated punctures. The Texan variety may be distinguished bythe yellow markings of the head and thorax (varying in depth ofcolor), those of the New Mexico type being ivory color.Falfurrias, Texas, at flowers of Helianthus, May 18, 1907 (A. C.Morgan); Runge, Texas, September 20, 1906, both sexes (J. C.Crawford); Calvert, Texas, April 5 and 10 (C. R. Jones); Eagle Pass,Texas, March 30, 1908 (Jones and Pratt).NOMADA PUTNAM! Cresson.Like a large N. garciana, the punctures on mesthorax well sepa-rated; the markings of head and thorax yellower. Laredo, Texas, atflowers of Prosopis glandulosa, June 5, 1907 (R. A. Cushman);Ladonia, Texas, at Rudheckia, species. May 25, 1904 (Bishopp).N. putnami was described from Utah; the insect from Texas mayprove to be distinct, but as it agrees with Cresson's description I canonly refer it to his species.NOMADA RIVALIS Cresson.California, one male (Morrison). This species is very close to theRocky Mountain N. ornithica Cockerell; they may be separated asfollows
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Larger; b. n. going a considerable distance basad of t. m.; second r. n. received aboutmiddle of third s. m.; black bands from antennae half way down sides of clypeus;scutellum with two yellow spots; postscutellum black; hind femora ordinary, .rivalis.Smaller, but variable in size; 6. n. meeting t. m., sometimes a little on the basad side;second r. n. received much beyond middle of third s. m.; no black bands extend-ing down from antennae; yellow of scutellum not divided into spots; postscutellumwith a yellow band ; hind femora stout ornithica.NOMADA CROTCHIl Cresson.Two females, Los Angeles County, California, April (Coquillett).
652 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.39.NOMADA PASCOENSIS Cockerell.One male, Los Angeles County, California (Coquillett 482).NOMADA MARGINELLA Cockerell.A slight variety, with the b. n. going some distance basad of t. m.,but all other characters normal. One female, Los Angeles County,California (Coquillett). NOMADA VINCTA Say.Females, Riley County, Kansas, August and September (Marlatt).NOMADA LAMARENSIS Cockerell.This was described from a single male taken at Lamar, Colorado.Mr. W. M. Mann sends me one of each sex from Canadian, Texas,July 27 and 29, 1905. The male is larger than the original type(fully 11 mm. long), and the black is much reduced, on the headto the ocellar area, on the thorax to a slight stain along the anterioredge of the mesothorax. All the tibiae are marked with yellow.These differences are apparently not racial. The female looks likethe male, but the face is all red, with a shght yellowish suffusion oneach side. The legs show less yellow.NOMADA TEXANA Cresson.According to the material before me, this is by far the mostabundant Nomada in Texas. The localities represented are:(1) Dallas, May 22, at Engelmannia pinnatifida flowers (W. D.Pierce); May 19, nt Gaillardia jJulcliella Rowers, (Bishopp); September13 (Bishopp). A large (about lOJ mm. long) male was taken atMonarda citriodora, July 3 (Crawford).(2) Piano, about 17 miles north of Dallas, July (Tucker).(3) Falfurrias, at Helianthus, May 18 (A. C. Morgan).(4) Wolfe City, at turnip, May 20 (Bishopp).(5) Mathis, May (A. W. Morrill).(6) Paris, on cotton (C. R. Jones). Others taken at Paris byBishopp have the tegulse more or less orange, perhaps the effect ofcyanide.(7) Ladonia, at Rudheckia, May 25 (Bishopp); September 29, oncotton (Bishopp).(8) Mineola, at Heterotheca suhaxillaris, October 2 (Bishopp).(9) Waco, at Vernonia haidvnnii, July 25 (Bishopp).(10) Riverside, August 22 (W. W. Yothers).(11) Wichita Falls, at Monarda, April 11 (C. R. Jones).(12) Cotulla, at Verhesina encelioides, April 17 (F. C. Pratt);at Pithecolohium, April 18 (F. C. Pratt).(13) Beeville, June 5, in cotton fields (C. R. Jones).Also East Point, Louisiana, September 5 (Bishopp).
NO. 1806. BEES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. l.?COCKERELL. 653The following localities produced a rather small variety, inter-mediate between texana and crucis:(14) Kerrville, over 50, only one being a male. Collected in April,many at Marrulium vulgare lowers (Pratt and Dunham).(15) Devils River, at Monarda citriodora, May 6 (Bishopp); atGaillardia pulclieUa, May 2 and 6 (Bishopp); at Sumach, May 3(Bishopp) ; at Marilaunidium origanifolium, May 3 and 4 (Bishoppand Pratt).(16) Del Rio, a,t Ratihida columnaris and Pyrrhojmppus carolinianus,May 1 (Bishopp).(17) Brewster County, Rio Grande, June 13-17 (Mitchell andCushman). NOMADA TEXANA CRUCIS (Cockerell).Nomada crucis was described in 1903 as a doubtful subspecies ofN. texana, based on the smaller size and coarser sculpture of the'metathorax. As it occurs in southern New Mexico itappears sufficiently distinct from typical N. texana ofeast-central Texas, but the abundant material nowbefore me clearly shows intergradation in south-centralTexas, north of the Rio Grande. I give a figure of thegenitalia of N. crucis fi'om Devils River. I also pre-pared a slide of the genitalia of quite typical texanafrom Piano, and so far as I can see there is no essentialdifference. As we go down the valley of the RioGrande, practically normal N. crucis is found to bemixed with larger individuals, which can be regardedas rather small texana. The females lead in this in-crease of size, but in humid Texas both sexes are of full genitalia of male? 1, / PI Nomada Texanatexana size, and even at CotuUa (10 males 6 females crucis.examined) this is the case, with rare exceptions. It isnot unlikely that crucis is largely or even wholly an environmentalproduct, not gametically different from true texana.A single male crucis (here a mutant or dwarf of texana?) comesfrom Ardmore, Indian Territory, August 18 (Bishopp). The Texanmaterial is as follows
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(1) Eagle Pass, March 30; male with third antennal joint shorterthan usual (Jones and Pratt).(2) Del Rio, both sexes. May 1 (Bishopp). Some are from flowersof Pyrrhopappus carolinianus.(3) Cotulla, a single male from Verbesina encelioides, May 11(J. C. Crawford).(4) Devils River, 28 males, 1 female. Collected fi'om Marilauni-dium origanifolium, May 3 (Pratt); SpJixralcea angustifolia,'Msij 3(Bishopp); Aster sp.,M.Sij 1 (Bishopp); Sumach, May 6 (Bishopp);Monarda citriodora, May 4 (Pratt) ; Gaillardia pulchella, one specimenBishopp). (
654 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.39.NOMADA (MICRONOMADA) MITCHELLI, new species.Female.?Length 6 to 7 mm.; black, red, and yellow; head shortand broad, face shining; clypeus, labrum, mandibles except tips,and whole of sides of face rather light ferruginous; supraclypealarea suffusedly reddish, front and vertex black; the red continuesbroadly upward some distance above antennae, and then stopsabruptly, except for a narrow line (sometimes absent) along theorbital margin, uniting with the narrow post orbital ferruginousstripes; vertex shining, not closely punctured; antennae entirelyferruginous, the flagellum a little dusky above; third joint con-spicuously longer than fourth; second joint of labial palpi much lessthan half length of first; thorax black, pleura with a large butvariable red patch, and inclined to be suffused with reddish above;upper border of prothorax, tubercles, tegulse, the rather stronglybilobed scutellum (except the posterior middle) and the postscutellumchrome 3^ellow; the metathorax without light marks; pleura stronglyand quite densely punctured ; mesothorax shining, with well-separatedpunctures; wings dark, strongly reddish; stigma ferruginous; h. n.meeting t. m.; second s. m. broad, receiving first r. n. about middle(one specimen has only two submarginals on both sides, the second
t. c. being wholly obliterated) ; legs entirely clear ferruginous, anteriorcoxae with long spines; abdomen shining, but well punctured, blackinclining to reddish, especially on the hind margins of the segments,with bright yellow bands, that on first segment narrow and inter-rupted, with a notch on each side in front, or reduced to two littlecrescents, or wholly absent; that on second extremely broad, butgreatly narrowed in the middle; fifth with most of the surface yellow;venter wholly black.Type.?Cat. No. 13433, U.S.N.M.Ilale.?About 6^ mm. long; clypeus and broad lateral marks brightyellow, the latter receding from orbits above. This male is veryclose to N. tiftonensis, but the hind femors are merely dusky behind;the supraclypeal mark is reduced to an obscure dot; and the meso-thorax is shining, the punctures distinctly separated. It is knownfrom N. garciana by its very dark wings, very bright yellow facemarks, and form of lateral marks.HaUtat.?TjY)e (female) from Victoria, Texas, May 25, 1907 (J. D.Mitchell) ; also two others from the same place, May 3 and 25, 1907(J. D. Mitchell). Male from Del Rio, Texas, May 8, 1907 (F. C.Bishopp). Nearest to N. tiftonensis Cockerell, from Georgia.NOMADA (HOLONOMADA) AFFABILIS DALLASENSIS, new subspecies.Female.?Looking exactly like N. zehrata Cresson, but with the meso-thorax much more coarsely sculptured, and the b. n. going for basadof the t. m. The flagellum is entirely clear ferruginous, in the mannerof N. morrisoni Cresson, not dark above as in affahilis Cresson. The
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third antennal joint is always distinctly longer than the fourth, notabout equal as in inorrisoni. Superficially, the insect is like N. lama-rensis, but it is a Holonomada, and the metathorax, except the black(or black and red) basal area, is nearly all yellow. The basal area isconsiderably smaller than in N. zehrata. The pleura has a variableamount of yellow, and the mesothorax is always red with a singleblack band. The face is red, variably suffused with yellow.Male.?Length 11 or 12 mm.; similar to N. affahilis, but obscuremark at top of eyes red; flagellum red, with its first six joints blackabove, the sides of the black sharply defined; wings yellowish; lastabdominal segment (like the others) with a j^ellow band, the abdomi-nal bands not narrowed in middle, except the first two slightly. Thescape is thick, entirely yellow beneath. The yellow on the pleura isbroadly margined with ferruginous. In my table '^ this runs to
affahilis, except that the legs must be described as red, with yellowand black markings. The second s. m. is very large, and receives thefirst r. n. beyond the middle.Habitat.?Dallas, Texas. Eight females (the type is a female), sixfrom dewberry fiowers, April 9, 1906 (Crawford and Pratt) ; one fromblackberry, March 21, 1907 (Bishopp). One male at Cercis cana-densis, March 22, 1909 (Bishopp).Type.?Cat. No. 13434, U.S.N.M.NOMADA (XANXmDIUM) LUTEOLA BISHOPPI, new subspecies.Female.?Third antennal joint almost or quite as long as fourth;flagellum clear red, dusky at the sutures above; mesothorax redbanded with yellow, varying to reddish-black, with the median bandsabbreviated; yellow of metathorax covering sides of basal area;pleura with a large yellow patch. This looks much like iY. affahilisdallasensis, but is smaller, with the third antennal joint evidentlyshorter, and the mesothorax with yellow stripes.Ilahitat.?Dallas, Texas, type at flowers of wild plum, March 16,1907 (Bishopp); also one at flowers of dewberry, April 9, 1906 (J. C.Crawford). Dark variety, Monroe, Louisiana, March 4, 1908, atCratsegus flowers (R. A. Cushman).A male N. luteoloides Robertson was taken at Logansport, Louisiana,March 24 (E. S. Tucker). I will also take occasion to record N.luteola Olivier from Helena, Montana, August 6, 1909 (Mann).Type.?Csit. No. 13435, U.S.N.M.The only male Xanthidium from Texas before me was taken by F.C. Bishopp at Wolfe City, at flowers of plum, March 5, 1908. It is N.luteoloides, but the anterior tibiae have a large black mark behind.NOMADA COQriLLETTI Cockerel!.A new locahty is Troy, Idaho, May 7, 1909 (Mann).
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656 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.39.NOMADA EXCELLENS Cockerell.A female from Los Angeles County, California, collected in May byCoquillett, is about 13 mm. long, but apart from its unusually largesize agrees well with this species.NOMADA JAPONICA Smith.Specimens from Japan in the U. S. National Museum agree withone from Hiogo, from the F. Smith collection.NOMADA CAROLINiE Cockerell.Longview, Texas, four females, March 26, 1908 (E. S. Tucker). Pre-viously known from North Carolina and Virginia (Falls Church,Banks). The Texan specimens have the mesothorax variable fromdistinctly banded to bandless, and the band on the metathoraxabsent, though the lower corner of the inclosure is black.NOMADA LEPIDA Cresson.Mound, Louisiana, "on turnip," one male, March 7, (Bishopp).Females are from Dallas, Texas, March 17, at Rubus (Cushman);Dallas, April 9, on dewberry (Crawford); Beaumont, Texas, March18 (Tucker); Wolfe City, Texas, on Crataegus, March 27 (Bishopp);Paris, Texas, April 10 and 11 (Bishopp).From Ardmore, Oklahoma, come many specimens. The males (onwild plum. Mar. 31, Bishopp) are small, and the tegulae are palereddish or yellowish-red, tending toward cuneata. The females arelight colored, as in lepida (cuneata must evidently stand as N. lepidacuneata). The Ardmore females were taken by Bishopp on wildplum, and by Bishopp and Jones on blackberry, in March and April.Two have yellow marks on the fifth abdominal segment; all have themesothorax with a single dark band. Ardmore is only a short dis-tance from the Texas line, and while classed in the humid austral, isvery near the boundary between the humid and arid. Paris andWolfe, Texas, are well in the humid division.NOMADA PARVA Robertson.Females from Ardmore, Oklahoma, April 11, at Salix (Bishopp)and Denton, Texas, April 26 (C. R. Jones). The basal nervure doesnot go so far basad of the t. m. as in N. infantula, but the two are sepa-rated with difficulty in the female, especially as in the Denton speci-men there are only two spots on each side of the abdomen.NOMADA SAYI Robertson.Females from Paris, Texas, April 11 (Bishopp), and Mound, Loui-siana, April 2 (Bishopp). In these the basal nervure goes less basadof the t. m. than in a male saiji received from Robertson. FromPittsburg, Texas, April 7 (Bishopp) comes a female with two yellow
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spots on the fifth abdominal segment, and the pygidial plate broadlyrounded, closely and very finely pubescent. This ought to be N. illi-noensis Robertson, but the antennsB are practically as in sayi?cer-tainly not shorter, and there is no yellow on the lower corners of theface. Probably the sayi?illinoensis group?includes one or twospecies which have not been separated, but more material is needed,especially males. For the present I call the Pittsburg insect N.illinoensis, var. a. NOMADA ILLINOENSIS Robertson.Two males, Ardmore, Oklahoma, at flowers of wild plum, March 12(Bishopp) and April 10 (Jones).NOMADA VICTRIX, new species.Female.?Length 7^ to 9 mm., expanse up to about 15 mm.; brightferruginous red, the strongly and closely punctured mesothorax with-out any black band, the scutellum very flat, not bilobed, shining,with large sparse punctures. Head broad, inner orbits parallel ; facestrongly punctured, no yellow at lower corners; mandibles simple;no black on head except a little stain between the ocelli, and some-times a little on the hindmost part of the cheeks; antennae entirelyferruginous, third joint longer than fourth, fourth shorter thantwelfth; thorax nearly without black, but a variable black stain inthe middle of the metathorax; hair at sides of metathorax short andscanty; tegulse bright ferruginous; wings reddish-dusky, h. n. meet-ing t. m.; only two submarginal cells, the second t. c. wholly absent in
all three specimens; legs red, hind femora and tibiae more or lessstained with dusky behind; abdomen dullish, without distinct punc-tures, red, the hind margins of the segments blackish; second seg-ment with two large pyriform or oblong yellow spots or patches; thirdand fourth with small lateral spots; fifth without spots, or with veryfaint indications of them; silvery apical lunule small and narrow(short) ; pygidial plate broadly rounded ; venter red without spots.Habitat.?Victoria, Texas, three females at flowers of Aster Novem-ber 6, 1904 (A. J. Leister). By the low scutellum, this is related to
A^. simplex Robertson. The possession of only two submarginal cellswould suggest relationship with N. (Heminomada) ohliterata Cresson,but this is fallacious, since in ohliterata it is the first t. c. that is absent.Nomada (Nomadita) montana Mocsary is a European species withonly two submarginal cells.Ty2)e.?Cat. No. 13436, U.S.N.M.NOMADA (GNATHIAS) BELLA CALLURA, new subspecies.Male.?Length about 10 mm.; lower half of clypeus and narrowlateral marks pale yellow, the clypeal yellow more or less tridentateabove; third antennal joint shorter than fourth; scape rather stout,black on inner (mesad) side, broadly red on outer; flagellum stout,ProcN.M.vol.39?10 44
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red, with the first five joints black above, and the others with blackishstains; thorax black, coarsely punctured, with the upper border ofprothorax more or less, the tubercles and the scutellum red; a smallred mark on pleura anteriorly; femora, tibiae, and tarsi clear red, thefemora black at base beneath; tegulse red, punctured; second s. m.very broad, not narrowed above, receiving first r.n. beyond middle;abdomen clear light ferrugijious red, with the spots light lemon yellow;base of first segment black right across; yellow markings consistingof two small marks on first segment, a very broad band, ratherbroadly interrupted in middle, on second, a broad band, broadly inter-rupted in middle, on third, and two small transverse marks on fourth;yellow on venter confined to a large spot on apical segment; apicalplate strongly notched.Hahitat.?West Cliff, Colorado (T. D. A. Cockerell). From Ash-mead's collection. Some of the assigned characters are doubtlessvariable, but the light abdomen is likely to be distinctive. The firstabdominal segment is very much broader than in N. perjjilexans Cock-
erell, which also differs in other ways.Type.?Cat. No. 13437, U.S.N.M.NOMADA FORMULA Viereck.Los Angeles County, California (Coquillett), one male. The apicalplate of the abdomen is deeply notched.NOMADA SEMISUAVIS Cockerell.California, with number 324, one male; Coronado, California, June18, 1890 (Coquillett), one female. New to California, and the femaleis new. The female resembles the male, and is distinguished from N.suavis by the very densely punctured mesothorax. The legs areyellow and black, with only a little red, and the metathorax has twovery large yellow patches. The anterior coxse are strongly spined.