V. Descriptions of new species of Bees belonging to the 
genus Nomia of Latreille. By FREDERICK SMITH. 
[Read 15th March, 1875.] 
Upwarps of twenty years ago a monograph of this genus 
was in preparation by Professor Westwood; circum- 
stances have retarded its completion; several species in 
the National Collection were at that time described, the 
manuscript names being published in the British Museum 
Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in 1853; since that 
time several of the species have been described by myself 
in the series of papers descriptive of the Hymenoptera of 
the Eastern Archipelago, which were published in the 
Proceedings of the Linnean Society. In this paper 
thirty-eight species are described, and seven in the paper 
on Indian Hymenoptera, making a total of forty-five. 
The species, the types of which are in the National Col- 
lection, are distinguished by the prefix of a*. Figures 
of the legs of the males of the two most common 
European | species are given, one being that of the type 
of the genus; the synonymy of those species is also 
added. All the figures of the posterior legs of the males 
represent them as when viewed exteriorly ; consequently, 
in some instances, spines on their inner margin are not 
visible. All sizes of the species are given in French 
lines. 
Nomia déversipes. (PI. II. fig. 1, ¢.) 
Nomia diversipes, Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. iv. 155, $ ; 
Oliv. Encycl. Méth. vii. 376; St. 
Farg. Hym. Hist. Nat. des Ins. i. 
293, $. (Type.) 
Nomia humeralis, Duf. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 584 ; 
Costa, Faun. del Reg. di Napoli, 
Hym. i. 6, pA AUX, fie. 2, 3, tab. 
Sia, tipi. lk. 2s 
Hab.—France; Italy. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1875.—PART I. (AMLAY.) 
