1905] 
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Nomada florilega n. sp. 
9 . — Length about 8 mm.; black and red, rather robust. Face, 
cheeks and pleura clothed with white pubescence, sides of metathora.\ 
fringed with long white hair. Mandibles e.xcept apices which are darkened, 
labrum, clypeus, usually a narrow line along the orbits, and vertex red; face, 
region of ocelli, cheeks and occiput black; flagellum ferruginous in front, black- 
ened behind, third joint shorter than fourth. Tegulae and tubercles ferrugin. 
ous; mesothorax dark red tinged with black, with a rather broad median longitud- 
inal line; sutures black; metathorax entirely black, pleura black above with a mid- 
dle red spot, red below. Legs red, coxae largely black; upper half of anterior and 
middle femora black beneath; posterior femora blackened behind except at 
extreme apex; first and second joints of hind tarsi blackened without. Wings 
dusky, strongly darkened on apical margins; stigma ferruginous, outer half dark- 
er than the inner; basal nervure basad transverse medial; second submarginal 
cell about one half as wide on the radius as on the cubitus; second and third 
transverse cubital nervures strongly curved; lunule rather prominent, .\bdomen 
oval or oblong oval, convex; basal half of first segment black, posterior margin 
of black area cordate; a pair of small cream-colored spots on the sides of seg- 
ment two; on segment three two minute dots; apical segments without ornaments. 
Taken on Aralia hispida and Spiraea salidfoliaA\xx\x\^ the latter half of July. 
Nearest N. sayi, but larger and darker, the metathorax being entirely black, and 
the red of the coarsely sculptured mesothorax very dark. 
Xo?nada nigrochuta Smith, var. d. 
1879 Nomada nigroctncta Sm. 9 Des. New Sp. Hyni. p.99. 
9 . — Length 8mm.; ferruginous and black. Head and thorax rather finely 
punctured; pubescence on cheeks, pleura and sides of metathorax white, on face 
and disc of mesothorax fuscous. Mandibles except tips, labrum, clypeus, spot 
on supra-clypeus, a narrow stripe around the eye, and antennae ferruginous; area 
about insertion of antennae, about ocelli and occiput black. Prothorax black; 
mesothorax trilineate, the middle band rather broad; scutellum largely red, post- 
scutellum black; metathorax entirely black; pleura black, red spot beneath the 
wings, another anteriorly on each side of the forelegs; tegulae and tubercles fer- 
ruginous. Legs ferruginous, marked with black much as in the preceding species. 
Wings nearly hyaline, slightly dusky at apex; basal nervure very little basad of 
transverse medial, much less than in the preceding species; second submargin- 
al cell along the radius nearly as long as second transverse cubital nervure; third 
submarginal along the radius fully one half as long as second submarginal 
