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Species : *annulicornis, Karny, 1913, Java ; armatus, Karny, 

 1913, Java; connaticornis, Karny, 1913, Java; *crassicornis, 

 Karny, 1912, Java; jasmini, Karny, 1913, Java; laticauda, 

 Karny, 1912, Java ; picticoniis, Karny, 1913, Java ; *tryhomi, 

 Karny, 1913, Java. 



BEES FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



Professor C. F. Baker, of the College of Agriculture at 

 Los Banos (Luzon), is the first to extensively collect the bees of 

 the Philippines ; and the material received from him shows 

 that the islands contain very many species, but very few, if 

 any, endemic genera. When the species are found to be 

 identical with those of other Oriental countries, they usually 

 belong to genera {Xylocopa, Ceratina, Megachile) which nest 

 in wood. 



Nomioides dapitanellm, n. sp. 

 $ . Length about 6 mm., robust, with broad abdomen ; head 

 and thorax yellowish green, with the clypeus (except two black 

 spots), tubercles and upper border of prothorax, scutellum (except a 

 median longitudinal band), and postscutellum (except anterior edge 

 and extreme sides), all yellow^ (reddened by cyanide in type) ; the 

 scanty hair on head and thorax above pale reddish ; supraclypeal 

 area and sides of front shining, but middle of front wholly dull, 

 appearing blackish ; apical part of mandibles dark red ; scape 

 ferruginous, the apical part black above ; flagellum black ; punctures 

 of mesothorax excessively feeble and minute ; femora black, anterior 

 and middle ones broadly, hind narrowly, red (yellow^ '?) at end ; 

 anterior and middle tibite and tarsi red (yellow '?), the middle tibiae 

 with a dusky spot behind ; hind tibiae and basitarsi largely dusky, 

 with much pale reddish hair, which is beautifully plumose ; second 

 joint of hind tarsi broad ; teguhe hyaline, with a yellow^ spot ; wings 

 dusky-hyaline, stigma and nervures dilute yellowish brown ; first 

 r. n. meeting second t. c. ; marginal cell truncate at end ; abdomen 

 black (first segment obscure greenish), with broad yellow bands at 

 bases of second to fifth segments, those on second and third with the 

 hind margin concave, the band on fifth occupying most of the 

 segment ; hind margin of fifth segment pallid, subhyaline ; pygidial 

 plate keeled ; venter with much pale reddish hair. 



Hah. Dapitan, Mindanao (Baker, 3161). The genus is new 

 to the Philippine Islands. N. dapitanellus is readily known 

 from N. obscurus, Friese, from Java, by the entire yellow 

 abdominal bands. It is known from A^. fornwsicola, Strand, 

 from Formosa, by the absence of a yellow band on hind part of 

 mesothorax, as w'ell as other characters. The mesothoracic 

 baud also occurs in A^. putijabensis (Cam.), which Cameron 

 described as a Ceratina. 



