﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLVIII.l AUGUST, 1915. [No. 627 



THE BEE-GENUS NOMIA IN THE PHILIPPINE 

 ISLANDS. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



A SERIES of Nomia from the Philippines, received from 

 Professor C. F. Baker, preatly enlarges our knowledge of the 

 genus as represented in that archipelago, and also makes it 

 possible to correct some misconceptions. Some of the species 

 had previously been e.xamined hy Dr. H. Friese, whose identifi- 

 cations were transmitted to me. Dr. Friese has very kindly 

 permitted me to describe certain Philippine bees to which he 

 had given manuscript names. 



Nomia iride.'icens, Smith. 



P. Princesa, Palawan (Baker 3847). This is a male, known 

 from other Philippine species by the unarmed postscutellum, the 

 brilliant green and purple abdominal bands, and the practically 

 unmodified hind legs. The first live segments are banded, as in 

 Singapore males. 



Nomia thoracica, Smith. 



Los Banos, Luzon (Baker 311). A female, determined as 

 thoracica hy Friese, but small for that species, and possibly 

 representing a distinguishable insular race. This is doubtless 

 the insect which Ashmead described as stantoiii, from a male ; it 

 is perhaps to be called A'^. thoracica statttoni. The abdomen has 

 four white tegumentary bands, and the thorax above is covered 

 with dense fulvous moss-like pubescence. 



Nomia inccrta, Gribodo. 

 P. Princesa, Palawan (female. Baker 3849 ; male, Baker 

 3846) ; also from Los Banos, Luzon (female), and Tacloban, 

 Leyte (male. Baker 3851, 3852). This is the species described 

 by Ashmead as the male of N. qiiadrifasciata (Ashm ), but that 

 name must be restricted to the supposed female, which is 

 evidently a male of a different specit-s, and is described first and 

 more fully than the insect regarded as its male. Dr. Friese had 

 identified it as N. elliotii, Smith, but it has no green band on 

 the first abdominal segment in either sex, whereas this band is 



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