54. Mr. F. Smith’s descriptions of new species of 
Nomia difformis. (PI. II. fig. 2, 3.) 
Lasius difformis, Panz. Faun. Ins. Germ., Fas. 89, 
tab. 15, $; Jurine, Hym. 238. 
Nomia difformis, Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. iv. 155, ¢; 
Eversm. Bull. Mose. xxv. 11; 
Schenck, Die Bienen Nassau, 397. 
Andrena humeralis, Jurine, Hym. pl. 14, fig. 6, 2 ? 
Nomia monstrosa, Costa, Faun. del Reg. di Napoli, 
Hym. i. tab. xxxi. fig. 1, 3. 
Hab.—France; Italy; Germany; 8. Russia. 
*1. Nomia capitata. 
Male.—Length 2} lines. Black: head wider than the 
thorax; legs pale ferruginous: abdomen with pubescent 
fascie. TELlead: the mandibles and flagellum of the an- 
tenn pale ferruginous, the former rufo-piceous at their 
apex; the front covered with short, pale-fulvous pubescence. 
Thorax: a little fulvous pubescence on the scutellum, 
that on the sides of the metathorax, beneath, and on the 
legs, is cinereous; wings hyaline and splendidly iridescent, 
the tegule and nervures rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: 
narrowed towards its base, closely and finely punctured ; 
the margins of the segments depressed; the apical margins 
of all the segments with fasciz of pale fulvous pubes- 
cence. — 
Hab.—Northern India. 
In this small species the posterior femora are not 
swollen, and the tibiz are not wider than the first joint of 
the tarsi. 
*2. Nomia clypeata. (PI. II. fig. 18, $.) 
Male.—Length 33 lines. Black: the flagellum of the 
antenne, the mandibles, apex of the clypeus, ferruginous ; 
the abdomen with pale fulvous pubescent fascie. The 
face, below the insertion of the antennze, covered with dense 
silvery-white pubescence. Thorax: the mesothorax closely 
and finely punctured, and with short, pale-fulvous pubes- 
cence, that on the post-scutellum being white; on the 
sides, and also beneath it, is cimereous; the legs rufo- 
piceous, with short glittering cinereous pubescence above ; - 
the posterior femora swollen, not greatly so, the tibiz 
dilated to their apex; wings hyaline and iridescent, the 
