THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XL.] DECEMBER, 1907. [No. 535 



NEW AMERICAN BEES.— V. 

 By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



Nomada lippi(e sublippice, var. nov. 



<? . Clypeus black ; no supraclypeal mark ; lateral face-marks 

 narrower above. 



Hab. Las Cruces, New Mexico, at flowers of Solidago, 

 Sept. 15tb, 1895 (Cockerell). 



Nomada crucis, Ckll. 



This was described from males only. At Cloudcroft, New 

 Mexico, Mr. H. L. Vicreck took a female (June 16th, 1902), 

 to which I can only refer here. It differs from the male in the 

 larger size, black clypeus, and absence of supraclypeal marks. 

 It is easily known from N. texana by the coarse punctures of 

 mesothorax ; from modesta by the absence of yellow spots on 

 metathorax; from neomexicana by the yellow tegulae, and two 

 light yellow bands (the second interrupted) on venter of abdo- 

 men ; from modesta river tonensis by the flagellum red beneath ; 

 from vegana by the black clypeus and metathorax. 



Nomada {Micronomada) garciana, sp. nov. {sjioivi, subsp.?). 



3^ . Length about 7 mm, ; black, with the light markings on head 

 and thorax ivory- colour or yellowish- white, the abdominal bands dull 

 yellow ; legs clear red, with spots on middle and hind coxae, small 

 spots at apex of anterior and middle tibiae, large spot at apex of hind 

 tibiae, and hnid basitarsi, all white. Face pale practically up to level 

 of antennae, the lateral marks extending beyond, and ending at an 

 angle of 45° ; antennae red, a little suffused with dusky above, third 

 joint about or almost twice as long as fourth ; mesothorax shiniug, 

 with strong punctures, quite widely separated in the middle ; upper 

 border of prothorax, tubercles, a large transverse patch on pleura, 

 scutellum, and post-scutellum, all pale, the scutellums more strongly 

 yellow ; metathorax without yellow or white marks, but its lower half 



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