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XIII. Descriptions of some new species of short-tongued 
bees belonging to the genus Nomia of Latreille. 
By J. O. Westwoop, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 
[Read 3rd May, 1875. ] 
THE following descriptions of short-tongued bees, re- 
markable for the structure of the hind legs, were written 
many years ago as portions of an intended monograph of 
the genus Nomia of Latreille. The names which I had 
applied to several of these species in the Collection of the 
British Museum were introduced by Mr. F. Smith in his 
‘Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects, Part I., Andrenide 
and Apide,” published by the trustees of the British 
Museum in 1853. Other occupations have from time to 
time prevented me from completing this memoir, the 
materials for which had accumulated on my hands to 
an unexpected extent; amongst these the collection of 
Mr. Smith himself furnished not fewer than fifteen in- 
teresting species, all of which he has, with his usual 
liberality, allowed me to retain to the present time. The 
Hopeian Collection, including my own, and the Collection 
of the Old East India House, furnished many additions. 
The publication by Mr. Smith of many curious species 
of bees has at length aroused these materials from their 
long slumber; and I have thought it better to lay them be- 
fore the Entomological Society in their present condition, 
rather than to allow so many remarkable insects to remain 
longer undescribed, or to be brought before the public one 
by one occasionally, as has already been the case with some 
of the recently recorded species of Nomia and allied bees. 
The genus is not only of very large extent, but is also 
very widely distributed over the earth’s surface. Species 
from India, China and Ceylon,—from tropical and Southern 
Africa,—from Australia and Van Diemen’s Land, and 
from Brazil and Mexico,—are described below, whilst the 
typical species of the genus inhabit the South of Europe ; 
and various species from the islands of the Eastern Archi- 
pelago have been lately described by Mr. Smith. The 
following is the list of the species contained in this 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1875.—PART III. (NOV.) R 
