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 % 11 1 li id i urn notatum. 



Anthidiitm nolatum, Latr. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 13., p. 48, 231. ] 

 One 9 specimen. (Bclfrage.) 



Ceratina dupla. 



Ceratina dupla, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 397. * 



Five % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) 



Nomada texana, n. sp. 



9- — Black; head densely punctured, thinly pubescent; sides of the face 

 and short line behind summit of eyes yellow; labrum, mandibles and three or 

 four basal joints of antennie ferruginous; thorax densely and coarsely punc- 

 tured ; collar, two spots on scutellum, postscutellum, tubercles, transverse sub- 

 arcuate mark on pleura and the tegulae, lemon-yellow; collar prominent es- 

 pecially on each side; scutellum obtusely bituberculate; metathorax not dis- 

 tinctly punctured, the upper surface except the basal triangular space clothed 

 with a dense appressed silvery-sericeous pile; wings subhyaline, the apical 

 two-thirds of costa broadly fuscous, clear at tip of third submarginal cell; legs 

 entirely fulvo- ferruginous, with a pale pubescence, extreme apex of posterior 

 tibiae more or less yellow, four posterior coxae with a small yellow spot; abdo- 

 men closely and finely punctured, first segment shining, very minutely punc- 

 tured, each segment, except the last, with a subapical lemon-yellow band, nar- 

 row and tolerably even on first segment, broad and much narrowed medially 

 on second segment, very narrow on third and fourth segments, broader later- 

 ally, and broad on fifth segment, apical segment with black pubescence; 

 venter varied with ferruginous, the third segment generally with a yellow 

 spot on each side. Length .35 inch. 



% . — Face, clypeus, spot above, labrum and base of mandibles lemon-yellow; 

 abdomen clothed with a pale sericeous pile, apical segment narrow and emar- 

 ginate at tip. Length .35 inch. 



Fourteen specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



BTomada lepida. 



Nomada lepida, Cress. Proc. Ent. See. Phil, ii., p. 288. 

 One % specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Bfomada maculata. 



Nomada maculata, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, ii., p. 303. 



Three 9 specimens. (Boll.) 



Epeolus remigatus. 



Melecta remigata, Fabr. Syst. Piez., p. 387. 



Epeolus remigatus, Fabr. Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, ii., p. 393. 

 Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Epeolus lunatus. 



Epeolus lunalus, Say, Long's 2d Exped. ii., p. 354. Cress. Proc. Ent Soc. 

 Phil, ii., p. 394. 



Fourteen £ 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



