BEES FROM THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



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The following is a list of new insects that have so far been 

 figured and described by Prof. Cockerell in various papers : 



BEES FROM THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



The Assistant-Director of the Botanical Gardens at Singapore 

 having been called away by military duties, Prof. C. F. Baker, 

 of the College of Agriculture of the Philippine Islands, temporarily 

 took his place. While there he collected bees at Singapore and 

 on the Island of Penang, adding to our scanty knowledge of the 

 bee fauna of the region. 



Nomia antliracopterti, n. sp. 



$ . Length about 10 mm. ; robust, black, with rather large 

 apricot-coloured tegulae ; hair of head and thorax rather scanty, 

 white, with some dark hairs on scutellum and post-scutellum ; sides 

 ot metathorax with dense shining hair ; clypeus obtusely bigibbose, 

 flattened in middle, with a slight median carina, surface roughish 

 and irregularly coarsely punctate ; Hagellum obscure reddish beneath 

 toward apex ; mesopleura very coarsely punctured, but shining pos- 

 teriorly ; mesothorax dull, coarsely punctured ; base of metathorax 

 with a shining transverse sulcus, crossed by little ridges ; posterior 

 face of metathorax dull, with large punctures ; wings brownish, with 

 the costal region broadly and a large apical cloud dark fuliginous, 

 shining purple ; legs black, with pale hair ; hind basitarsi greatly 

 broadened and flattened, produced at apex ; hair on inner side of 

 tarsi fuscous, with a silvery sheen in certain lights ; abdomen shining, 

 with thin white hair at sides, and some fuscous hair apically, but no 

 l)ands ; first segment distinctly but sparsely punctured ; punctures on 

 the other segments principally developed laterally. 



Singapore (C. P. Baker 9082). Closely related to N. fuscijjennis, 

 Smith, from Sumatra, but the hair on the tarsi differently coloured, 



