222 HYMENOPTERA. 



Hab. — N. W. Australia (C. F. ; Turner collection). British 

 Museum. 

 Nomia tomentifera (Friese). 



cf. Cairns, Queensland, " Kur. 2. 02" (Turner); female, 

 Cooktown, Oct., 1902 (Turner). British Museum. Super- 

 ficially much like N. semiaurea Ckll., but easily known by 

 the dentate postscutellum (metanotum, Friese has it), and 

 the mesothorax in both sexes with a large bilobed dark area, 

 surrounded by short dense ochreous tomentum. The hind 

 legs of the male are simple. Friese describes this as a 

 variety of N. cincta Sm., but Smith mentions no postscutel- 

 lar tooth in cincta, which is from Key Island. The tongue 

 in tomentifera is linear and quite long, entirely different from 

 the broad dagger-shaped organ of N. australica regis. 

 Nomia kurandina sp. nov. 



c?. Length about 9 mm., expanse about 16; shining black, with 

 black and white hair, the wings hyaline, faintly dusky, with the apex 

 of the anterior pair dark fuscous, forming a very conspicuous sub- 

 triangular spot, by which the species is easily recognized ; face covered 

 with white hair, narrow, eyes converging below ; vertex with black 

 hair; lower margin of clypeus broadly dull white, the actual edge nar- 

 rowly ferruginous ; tongue rather long, linear ; antennae long, simple, 

 entirely dark ; mesothorax well punctured, shining, with short incon- 

 spicuous mostly black hair; scutellum strongly bigibbous, with much 

 black hair; postscutellum unarmed, with dense white hair; base of 

 metathorax with a very sharply defined transverse channel, which is 

 shining and crossed by little ridges ; tegulse rather large, piceous with 

 an obscure pallid spot ; lower section of b. n. strongly arched, falling 

 short of t. m. ; second s. m. very small, receiving first r. n. very near 

 its end ; legs black, with white hair, black bristles at apices of hind 

 tarsal joints ; hind femora thick, excavated, transversely flattened and 

 shining beneath ; hind tibias broadened, subtriangular, produced at 

 apex, flattened on inner side ; abdomen shining with fine punctures of 

 two sizes ; first and second segments with thin white hair-bands at 

 sides, third with a very broad entire band, apical segments with much 

 coarse black hair; fourth ventral with a median raised line. 



Related to N. gilberti Ckll., but easily separated by the 

 apical wing-spots. 



Hab. — Cairns, Queensland, "Kur., 11. 01 " (Turner). 

 Nomia pseudoceratina sp. nov. 



d 1 . Length about 8h mm. ; black, slender, with a shining, clavate 

 abdomen, the hind margins of the segments testaceous, and covered 



