256 E. T. CRESSON. 



which is, however, more golden and less blue, with the inesothofax 

 uniformly punctured; the abdomen is much alike in both species. 



\oiiii.-i Norton!. 



Xo?nia Nortoni, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 385. 



Eight % 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



\ lomia ? heteropoda. 



Nomia keteropoda, Say, Long's 2d Exped. ii., p. 349. 

 Three % $ specimens. (Boll.) 

 Amlrena roflexa, n-. sp, 



J, . — Broad, robust, black, shining; head slightly broader than thorax, 

 face broad, clypeus dull yellowish-white; face, elypeus, labrum, occiput and 

 cheeks thickly clothed with a long fulvo-ochraceous or pale oehraceous pubes- 

 cence; vertex sparsely and finely punctured, naked, smooth and polished; 

 mandibles long, pioeous or black, antennae brown-black, flagellum rufo-testa- 

 ceous beneath ; thorax clothed with a rather long, dense fulvous or pale oehra- 

 ceous pubescence, paler on metathorax and pleura; tegulse testaceous; wings 

 subhyaline, apex paie fuliginous, with a slight violaceous reflection; legs fus- 

 cous, with pale yellowish or oehraceous pubescence, tarsi fulvous; abdomen 

 short, broad ovate, finely and closely punctured, thinly clothed with a fulvo- 

 ochraceous or pale oehraceous pubescence, apical margin of the segments much 

 depressed, broadly pale testaceous and thickly fringed with pale pubescence, 

 the extreme apical edge of the three or four basal segments more or less strong- 

 ly reflexed, sides of the segments and apex more thickly pubescence. Length 

 .45 inch. 



Three specimens. (Belfrage.) One specimen differs only in the 

 head being much larger, and may prove to be a distinct species. 



Amlrena Belfragei, n. sp. 



$ .— Black, shining; head not broader than thorax, face, occiput and 

 cheeks clothed with long, rather dense fulvous pubescence, clypeus with a 

 short fulvous pubescence, large, closely punctured with a smooth median 

 longitudinal impressed line; antennas short, flagellum brown beneath towards 

 apex; mesothorax, scutellum and space beneath tegulse clothed with a dense 

 deep fulvous pubescence, that on metathorax long and oehraceous, that on 

 pleura pale oehraceous; tegulse rufo-piceous; wings yellowish-hyaline, apex 

 rather broadly fuscous, subviolaceous; legs brown-black, with pale pubescence, 

 tarsi brown, the pubescence on tibiae and tarsi dense and pale yellowish; abdo- 

 men broad, depressed, oblong-ovate, shining, first segment sparsely and finely 

 punctured, polished, thinly clothed at base and sides with pale pubescence, 

 remaining segments densely punctured with apical margin depressed, smooth 

 and polished, sides of second, third and fourth segments, and apical margin of 

 fourth segment with a thin pale pubescence, anal fimbria fulvous. Length 

 .55 inch. 



One specimen. (Coll. (jr. W. Belfrage.) A very pretty species, 

 the pubescence of thorax above being deep fulvous, or somewhat of a 

 saffron color, and the abdomen shining and almost entirely naked 

 above, except apex which is fulvous. 



