264 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



area of metatliorax roughened at extreme base ; tegulse light 

 rufo-testaceous, much smaller than those of N. bakeri. 

 Wings dusky at apex, stigma and nervures dull sepia; b. n. 

 going basad of t.-m. ; only tw^o submarginal cells, the second 

 t.-c. absent. Abdomen smooth, the second segment with a 

 large round yellow spot (reddened by cyanide in type) on 

 each side. 



Hub. Mt. Makiling, Luzon {Baker, 3155). 



Nomada banahaonis, sp. n. 



(^ . — Length of type 6 mm., but of the smallest specimen 

 about 4'5. 



Slender, Avith fusiform abdomei), very narrow at base; 

 black, with labrum, mandibles, band along lower part of 

 ])OSterior orbits, clypens (except a pair of black patches 

 above), lateral face-marks (ending in a sharp point on orbit 

 about level of top of clypeus), tubercles (but no other part 

 of thorax), small round spot on each extreme side of first 

 abdominal segment, and large spots on each side of second 

 and third (very large on second), all yellow, reddened by 

 cyanide in type; mandibles simple; head broad, face with 

 appressed silky pale hair; scape very long, black, with a red 

 spot at base and apex ; flagellum long and thick, ferruginous 

 beneath ; second antennal joint hardly visible, third short, 

 not longer than broad, conspicuously shorter than fourth ; 

 mesothorax very densely punctured ; area of metathorax 

 rugose at base, otherwise shining, \uth slight transverse 

 striation ; pleura and sides of metathorax with dense white 

 hair; tegulse rufo-piceous. Wings with apex and outer 

 margin broadly dusky, nervures and stigma piceous ; b. n. 

 going basad of t.-m. ; second s.ra, receiving first r. n. about 

 middle. Legs black, with anterior femora in front and 

 above, iniddle femora in front, anterior and middle tibiae in 

 front, anterior tarsi, middle basitarsi, posterior knees and 

 apex of posterior tibiae, all ferruginous. Abdomen smooth 

 and shining, apex and apical plate ferruginous, the latter 

 strongly notched. 



Hub. Mt. Banahao, Philippine Is. [Baker, 3157~tvpe ; 

 3158,3159). 



This may possibly be the male of N. lusca, but I believe it 

 is distinct. In Desc. Kec. Bees, Ixiii. p. 365, Halictus bana- 

 haunis, also from J\lt. Banahao, and very possibly the host of 

 the present Nomada^ is misprinted " banabraonis." 



