xv, i Cocker ell: Philippine Bees of the Genus Nomia 7 



Nomia goniognatha sp. nov. 



Male. — Length, 7 to 8 millimeters; black, with the knees, 

 tibias at apex, and tarsi except apex, yellowish ferruginous; pu- 

 bescence pale ocherous, the mesothorax and scutellum with short, 

 fulvous, mosslike hair; tongue very slender; eyes brown, 

 strongly converging below; mandibles broad, pale testaceous, 

 with the apex piceous and the swollen inner side of base broadly 

 black, while the lower margin, beyond the middle, is conspicu- 

 ously angular; vertex minutely rugose-punctate; area of meta- 

 thorax very small, with five oblique striae; tegulse reddish 

 testaceous, with piceous base; wings dusky, stigma testaceous, 

 not large ; hind femora enormously swollen, helmet-shaped ; hind 

 tibiae short and broad, curved basally ; abdomen finely punctured, 

 the segments with pale fulvous hair bands; fourth ventral seg- 

 ment emarginate, with a median keel on a ferruginous band; 

 fifth ventral with a strong dark keel produced to a claviform 

 apex. The flagellum is bright ferruginous beneath, except at 

 base and apex. 



Mindanao, Davao (from Baker). 



In Bingham's table of Indian species this falls nearest to N. 

 aurifrons Smith, to which are allied the later-described N. aure- 

 obalteata Cameron and N. kangrse Nurse. Nomia aureobalteata 

 has a large metathoracic area, different legs, etc. Nomia auri- 

 frons has testaceous legs. Nomia kangrse also differs in the 

 legs and in other ways. The hair on the thorax in N. goni- 

 ognatha recalls the much larger N. thoracica or the Indian 

 N. ardjuna Cockerell. 



Nomia recessa sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, about 9 millimeters or rather more; robust, 

 black, with fine pale cinereous to white (on cheeks) hair, on 

 mesothorax and scutellum thin and mainly fuscous, on vertex 

 with a pale golden tint, on inner side of tarsi orange-ferrugi- 

 nous ; hind tibiae with hair mainly yellowish white, but on outer 

 face dark fuscous; hind margin of first abdominal segment 

 black, of the others broadly testaceous ; no hair bands on apical 

 margins of segments, but third segment with an even white 

 basal fringe beneath the testaceous margin of second. Eyes 

 dark reddish; mandibles dark reddish, black at base; antennae 

 black, the flagellum red apically, especially beneath ; face broad, 

 with thin cinereous hair ; mesothorax densely and strongly punc- 

 tured, but shining between the punctures; scutellum shining, 



