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Judging from the description, it seems rather probable 

 that N. flavofasciata Friese, is the same as N. binghami Ckll. 

 If so, the latter has about a month priority. 



Norma basutorum sp. now 



9. Length 10i mm., expanse 20; black, head and thorax densely 

 rugosopunctate, with scanty short gray hair ; face very broad, eyes 

 converging below ; tongue slender, not very long ; mandibles red in 

 middle ; lower edge of clypeus with orange bristles ; antenna? entirely 

 black, scape long, fl age Hum thick and very short ; hind ocelli much 

 closer together than either is to eye ; front and vertex much more 

 coarsely sculptured than mesothorax ; area of metathorax with a strong 

 transverse ridge, bounding a shining channel which has feeble trans- 

 verse raised lines ; tegulae moderate, ferruginous with the margin 

 pallid ; wings strongly infuscated, very dark, the broad apical mar- 

 gin a little darker; b. n. meeting t. m. ; first r. n. joining second s. m. 

 almost at its end, or about the beginning of its last fourth ; thirds, m. 

 rather shorter than first; legs black and red, with golden hair; the 

 red parts are the knees, the greater part of the anterior tibiae, the mid- 

 dle tibiae at base and apex, the hind tibiae, and all the tarsi, but the 

 hind basitarsus with a large subquadrate fuscous patch on outer side ; 

 hind basitarsus broad ; spurs clear red ; abdomen finely punctured, 

 the hind margins of the segments brownish ; second and third seg- 

 ments with white marginal hair-bands at sides only, but fourth with 

 an entire narrow band ; fifth with a broad fringe of light golden- 

 reddish hair ; venter with reddish hair. 



An ordinary looking species, but easily recognized by the 

 short thick flagellum, the dark wings and the venation. 

 There is a rather strong general resemblance to N. wellmam 

 Ckll., but that species has quite different abdominal hair- 

 bands, a more coarsely sculptured mesothorax, etc. 



Hab. — Basutoland, Africa (R. Crawshay). British Mu- 

 seum. 

 Noniia nana Sm. {ruficornis Sm.). 



A male labelled N. W. Australia (C. F. ; Turner collec- 

 tion), does not differ from one collected at Adelaide. This 

 is a suprising extension of range. 

 Nomia australica regis subsp. nov. 



<? . Agrees with N. australica, except as follows: scape and flagel- 

 lum both dark, each with a very obscure reddish spot beneath at base ; 

 hair of face, occiput and cheeks white ; wings clearer, hardly at all 

 dusky; abdomen narrower basally, dark purple-blue, not greenish, the 

 hair-bands white, only slightly tinged with yellowish. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. AUGUST, 1910. 



