xv, i Cocker ell: Philippine Bees of the Genus Nomia 5 



Mindanao, Davao (Baker 7468). Described from Singapore 

 and also collected by Bryant and Palmer in Java (Buitenzorg, 

 March, 1909; Depok). It is a color variety, doubtless alter- 

 nating in Mendelian fashion with the typical form. 



Nomia iridescens Smith. 



Nomia iridescens Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. 2 

 (1857) 43. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Bafios and Mount Maquiling. 

 Mindanao, Butuan and Davao. All from Baker. I have a fe- 

 male from F. Smith's collection, and the Philippine form agrees 

 with it. 



Nomia iridescens var. rhodochlora var. nov. 



Male and female. — Abdominal bands bright yellowish green, 

 suffused with vermilion. 



Mindanao, Dapitan (Baker 7466), male. Negros, Cuernos 

 Mountains (Baker), female. The type locality is Dapitan. 



Nomia lusoria sp. nov. 



Male. — Like N. strigata ridleyi, but with third (as well as 

 following) antennal joints clear red beneath; hind femora 

 swollen, the upper side strongly convex; hind tibise greatly en- 

 larged apically, the end reddish yellow, the inner side flattened 

 and expanded apically, its margin broadly rounded and ex- 

 panded ; hind basitarsi pale reddish dusky apically. 



Palawan, Puerto Princesa (from Baker). 



Nomia elongatula Cockerell. 



Nomia elongatula Cockerell, Entomologist 48 (1915) 178. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Bafios (type locality) and Mount 

 Maquiling: Benguet Subprovince, Baguio. Leyte, Tacloban. 

 Mindanao, Iligan. Palawan, Puerto Princesa. All from 

 Baker. 



Nomia levicauda sp. nov. 



Nomia elongata "Friese," Cockerell, Entomologist 48 (1915) 178 

 (not N. elongata Friese). 



Finding that this group of Nomia included several distinct 

 species, recognizable by the characters of the male abdomen, I 

 was led to reexamine the species from Luzon which Friese had 

 identified with his N. elongata, described from Java. Evidently 

 the Philippine species is distinct, for although Friese's descrip- 

 tion of the male is brief, he states that the fifth ventral abdom- 

 inal segment is bare, whereas in our insect it is hairy right 



