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Anthidiam nofatiim. 



Antkidium nolaiam, Latr. Ann. Mus. Hist, Nat. 13., p. 48, 231. 



Oae 9 specimca. (Belfrage.) 



Ceratina dupla. 



Ccraiina dupla, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 397. 

 Five % 9 spcciiuens. (Belfrage.) 



Slomada texana, n. sp. 



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

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

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

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

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

 pecially on each side; scutelluni 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 eosta broadly fuscous, clear at tip of third submarginal cell; legs 

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

 tibisE 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 fiflh segment, apical segment with black pubescence; 

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

 spot on each side. Length .3,5 inch. 



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

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

 ginate at tip. Length .35 inch. 



Fourteeu specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



BTomada lepida. 



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

 One S specimen. (Belfrage.) 



Nomada maculata. 



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

 Three 9 specimens. (Boll.) 



Epeolus rcmigatns. 



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



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

 Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



Epeolns Innatas. 



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

 Phil, ii., p. 394. 



Fourteen S ? specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.) 



