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across. The female is very similar to that of N. philippinensis, 

 but the area of metathorax is rather broad (anteroposteriorly) 

 and irregularly plicate, and the abdomen is shiny. The stigma 

 is very much larger than that of philippinensis and is of the 

 same general type as that of N. palavanica, but dusky or with 

 a dusky margin. The second abdominal segment is smooth and 

 shining, whereas in palavanica it is rough and punctured. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Banos (type locality) : Benguet 

 Subprovince, Baguio. Mindanao, Zamboanga. The females 

 come from the following places : Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount 

 Maquiling: Benguet Subprovince, Baguio. Mindanao, Davao 

 and Iligan. All from Baker. The series of females may in- 

 clude examples of the next species, which is perhaps not clearly 

 separable in that sex. 



Nomia lautula sp. no v. 



Male. — Length, about 6 millimeters; slender, with the basi- 

 tarsi cream color, their apices and the small joints of tarsi fer- 

 ruginous; abdomen clavate, slender basally; the hind margins 

 of segments with pale ocherous-tinted hair bands; face with 

 pale golden hair; stigma large, dusky reddish. This species is 

 so similar to N. levicauda that I thought it might be only a race, 

 but it is certainly a distinct species, differing by the narrow and 

 little-punctured first abdominal segment, the very densely punc- 

 tured mesothorax, and especially the fifth ventral segment of 

 abdomen, which has a pair of separate rounded elevations, cov- 

 ered with short, dark-tipped, more or less bifid bristles, instead 

 of being hairy right across as in N. levicauda. 



Mindanao, Davao (Baker; two bear the numbers 7470, 

 7471). 



Nomia palavanica Cockerell. 



Nomia palavanica Cockerell, Entomologist 48 (1915) 178; 49 (1916) 

 158. 



Palawan, Puerto Princesa (Baker 3848). 



Nomia philippinensis (Friese). 



Nomia takauensis philippinensis Friese, Cockerell, Entomologist 48 

 (1915) 178. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Banos (type locality) and 

 Mount Maquiling: Benguet Subprovince, Baguio: Tayabas 

 Province, Malinao and Mount Banahao. Mindanao, Davao. 

 All from Baker. 



