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No 7 ttada (G?iat/tias) cuniata Rob. var. e. 
1903 Gnathias cuneatus Rob. 9 $ , Can. Ent. 35: 175, no. 6. 
9. — Length 8mm.; mandibles bidentate ; resembles N. hella but is 
smaller, with thorax trilineate. Head and thorax red, not coarsely punctured; 
white pubescence on cheeks and pleura long; a black dot on each side of clypeus, 
the area about the insertion of antennm and ocelli black, a red spot on supra- 
clypeus; occiput black; antennae ferruginous, fourth joint longer than third. 
Mesothorax trilineate, the middle band broad; scutellum and post-scutellum red, 
sutures black; pleura black above with a red spot, red below; metathorax with 
broad black bands at the sides and in the center; tegulae and tubercles ferrug- 
inous. Legs red; upper third of anterior and middle femora black beneath; post- 
erior femora blackened behind. Wings dusky, apical margin darker; pale- 
lunule distinct; basal nervure basad transverse medial nervure more than the 
length of the latter; third transverse cubital nervure strongly angulated in the 
middle, .\bdomen red, broad, strongly convex; black area on basal segment 
lobed in the center; a pair of small cream colored spots on the sides of second 
segment; apical segments without markings. 
Waldoboro, Maine, May 18. 
Nomada (Xanthidium) subrutila n. sp. 
<? . — Basal nervure meeting transverse medial; flagellum obscurely den- 
ticulate, lively ferruginous beneath; supraclypeal mark well developed, surround- 
ed by black; orbits yellow except at summit behind; third antennal joint on the 
short side much shorter than fourth; scutellum black with two small yellow spots; 
metathorax entirely black; tegulae light yellow, with a hyaline center and mar- 
gin; band on first abdominal segment broadly interrupted, the posterior part of 
the interval reddish; bands on second and third segments not at all interrupted; 
anterior and middle tibiae yellow, with a black or dark brown mirk behind. 
Other characters as in N. luteohi and N. luteoloides^ size that of a rather small 
luteo/a. 
One male taken on Viola rotnndifolia May 4th. The species recognized 
in this group are very closely allied, but the present one seems as distinct as any. 
Nomada Ci-essonii Rob. 
1863 Nomada maculata Cr. 9 ^ var. b, I’roc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2:304. 
1893 Nomada Cressonii Rob. 9 ^ Trans.Am. Ent. Soc. 20:275. 
This species has been taken on Viburnum Ahiifolium and Cornus Cana, 
densis from May 19th to July nth. 
