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runs to Holonomada Robertson. If the cox?e were said to be 

 spined both sexes would run. to Ciphen Robertson. 



In Ashmead's tables (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. 27, 1899, p. 

 49, etc.) it will not run satisfactorily. 



In Cockerell and Atkin's table based on the trophi (Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. 10, July, 1902, p. 42, etc.) Noma- 

 dosoma runs to Nomada fucata Panzer. 



Pasites Jurine, Biastcs Panzer and Nomadita Mocsary be- 

 long to the Nomadinse and have two cubital cells. Pasites and 

 Biastes have the gaster of the female of the cylindrical Noma- 

 dine type, the third antennal joint is much shorter than four 

 plus five, the frontal carina is strong, the body is strongly 

 punctured ; Pasites has the radial cell truncate and the scutel- 

 lum bilobate ; Biastes has the scutellum rounded. Nomadita 

 Mocsary, which is known from the male only, may have the 

 venation as in Heminomada Cockerell, but as it is compared 

 with Biastes perhaps has the venation as in that genus. It has, 

 however, a strong frontal carina and the "scutellum bitubercu- 

 latum." 



Heminomada Cockerell has the first transverse cubitus (not 

 the second) wanting, and differs in many other ways from 

 Nomadosoma. 



Nomadosoma pilipes (Cresson). 



Cresson (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. 4, 1865, p. 183) de- 

 scribed his Pasites pilipes as follows : 



"Chestnut-brown, polished; sides of face, clypeus, collar, tubercles, 

 two spots on pleura, postscutellum and narrow bands on abdomen, 

 white; hind legs of $ densely pilose; wings hyaline, costa- apical mar- 

 gin fuscous. 



"Female. Chestnut-brown polished, clothed with pale pubescence; 

 face flat, highly polished, impunctate ; sides of the face obscurely, 

 and the clypeus, whitish; cheeks and labrum densely pubescent; anten- 

 nae piceous, paler at base. Thorax indistinctly punctured, pleura and 

 metathorax rather densely clothed with silvery-white pubescence; a 

 line on the collar, tubercles, two spots on pleura, two small spots on 

 scutellum, and the post-scutellum, white; scutellum slightly subbilo- 

 bate; tegulce brown, the outer margins pale. Wings hyaline, faintly 

 tinged with fuscous, slightly iridescent, the costa-apical margin broad- 



