NEW SPECIES OF PARASITIC BEE FROM BORNEO. 7 



leave pale patches behind median shade of fore wing (from costa 

 nearly to third radial, and again from first median to inner margin), 

 and narrowly behind postmedial line of hind wing. Discal spots 

 blackish, rather distinct. Transverse lines inconspicuous, the most 

 noticeable being the median shade, which, on hind wing, passes 

 behind discal spot (as in contiguaria), not across it, as is so usual in 

 ritfescentaria and alhonotaria ; inner line scarcely traceable, indicated 

 by one or two blackish dots, outer (postmedial) by rows of blackish 

 vein-dots, these being rather distinct towards costa of (or rarely 

 throughout) fore wing and throughout hind wing. Under side practi- 

 cally identical with upper. 



Types (male, August 2nd, 1909 ; female, August 26th, 1909) 

 from Chungking, Szechuan, China, in coll. L. B. Prout ; collected 

 by Mr. Barry, presented by Dr. M. Culpin, of Shanghai. Dr. 

 Culpin also sent another pair, precisely similar but somewhat 

 worn, taken at the same place on August 14th, 1909. The 

 species must be widely distributed, at least along the Yang-tse- 

 kiang, but it is somewhat interesting that the only known 

 localities, though separated by nearly nine hundred miles, agree 

 almost precisely in latitude. Besides the four specimens in my 

 collection, from which the description has been made, I know 

 three only, all in the British Museum. Two males, labelled 

 Chekiang, collected by Fryer, and bearing the MS. name of 

 inaccepta, Warr., which I have adopted, are clearly co-specific, 

 though somewhat more variegated than the type-form, and one 

 somewhat redder in tone ; they did not come through the Leech 

 collection, but were, on the presentation of that collection, 

 merged in the series of contiguaria, from which they differ in the 

 pale apex, absence of white mark at postmedial line, weakly 

 marked under surface, &c. One almost typical female, from 

 Ningpo (Leech coll.), has been mentioned above, as Leech had 

 it mixed with a similarly coloured aberration of alhonotaria as 

 possibly representing Christoph's consociaria. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF PAEASITIC BEE (NOMADA) 

 FROM BORNEO. 



By p. Cameron. 



Nomada testaceobalteata, sp. n. 

 Head, antennae, and abdomen black ; the apex of the first abdo- 

 minal segment, the basal two-thirds of the second, the apex of the 

 last and the greater part of the ventral segments, dark testaceous, 

 the thorax rufous ; the legs black, the femora broadly testaceous. 

 Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma black, the apex with a narrow 

 but distinct blackish cloud. Face, clypeus, apical half of metanotum 

 and pleurae densely covered with silvery white pubescence. 3" . 

 Length, 4 mm. 



