short-tongued bees of the genus Nomia. 217 
black, with the transverse impressed line of each segment 
quite close to its posterior margin, which is narrowly 
white and slightly constricted, the constricted part being 
much more delicately punctured; the four anterior legs 
are fulvous beneath, with a brown shade above along the 
middle; the fore tarsi are white, with the ungues and 
pulvillus conspicuously black; the hind femora are pitchy, 
more fulvous at the base and beneath; the tibiz pale 
whitish, dusky in the middle ; the basal joint of the four 
posterior tarsi is whitish, the remainder of the joints 
pitchy, with whitish hairs; the wings are slightly stained, 
the extremity darker brown and the stigma black; the 
first recurrent vein of the forewings arises near the ex- 
tremity of the second discoidal cell, and the second recur- 
rent vein a little beyond the middle of the third discoidal 
cell: the abdomen beneath is pitchy, with broad grey 
margins to the segments. 
Pl. IV. fig. 6, Nomia patellifera magnified; 6a, an- 
terior tarsus; 6d, terminal joint of ditto; 6c, hind leg; 
6d, extremity of the underside of the abdomen. 
III. Species AUSTRALASIATICZ. 
Nomia gracilipes. (Pl. V. fig. 1.) 
Nomia gracilipes, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1875), 
p. ol; 
(Nomia hemorrhoidalis, Westw., MS., ante, p. 208.) 
Elongata, gracilis, nigra, capite et thorace fusco- 
villosis, facie infera albo-villos4, thorace fasciculis parvis 
setarum albarum ornato, abdomine nigro apice fulvo, mar- 
ginibus segmentorum cyaneis; segmentis tribus basalibus 
utrinque fascia abbreviata setarum albarum ; pedibus pos- 
ticis elongatis, paullo incrassatis. (Mas.) 
Long. corp. lin. 5; expans. alar. antic. lin. 9. 
Habitat in Australasiz partibus australibus. In Mus. 
Smith. 
IV. Species AMERICAN. 
Nomia Kirbii. (Pl. V. fig. 2.) 
Nomia Kirbii, Westw., MS. in Mus. Brit.; Smith, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd Ser. Vol. 2, p. 398, 
pl. xxi. fig. 5 (antenna), and Vol. 1875, p. 69, pl. 1. 
fig. 19, 20 & (antenna and posterior leg). 
Nigra, crebre punctatissima, piceo-pubescens, an- 
tennis articulo apicali, capitulo rotundato compresso, fe- 
moribus intermediis crassis, dente obtuse subbasali infero ; 
