Records of Decs. 493 



Nomia mesillensis, Cockerell. 

 At Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the first week o£ August, 

 1912, I took a good series of Nomia at flowers of Pei'itoma 

 serrulatum. To my surprise I find that the females are all 

 N. mesillensis, while the males are those ascribed by me 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1908, p. 333) to N.foxii. 

 Fox clescril)ed his pimctata (fcvii, D, T.) from the female, 

 and the '^ distinctly punctured '' abdomen clearly indicates 

 the female I have called foxii rather than mesillensis. This 

 female (from Las Cruccs and Rincon, New Mexico) is, 

 howes'er, evidently the recently published N. mcclezumce, 

 Crawford, which must, I think, be a synonym of N.foxii. 

 The matter will be settled by the examination of the type of 

 Jo.vii, from Vega, S. Jose^ N. M, 



Nomia ncvadensis, Cresson. 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico, Aug. 3, 1912 {Cockerell). 



Nomia savignyi, Kohl. 

 Multan, India, Sept. 1909 {E. Comber). British Museum. 



Nomia comperta, sp. n. 

 (J.— Length 10^ mm. 



Black, with approximately the basal half of abdomen red ; 

 head broad ; mandibles with a small rufous spot beyond 

 middle; face densely covered with shining creamy-tinted 

 hair ; vertex shining, with very large, scattered, irregularly 

 placed punctures ; aiitennre long, flagellum crenulate, dull 

 red beneath ; thorax brilliantly shining, the mesothorax and 

 scutellum wath scattered strong punctures ; area of meta- 

 thorax shining, with a minutely granular surface, but no 

 ridges, its lateral extensions with a rather strong sulcus 

 running dow-n the middle ; hair of thorax thin and long, 

 white, very faintly creamy-tinted dorsally. Legs shining 

 brown-black, with pale hair ; hind coxae with a small apical 

 tubercle posteriorly; hind femora slightly swollen ; hind 

 tibiae and tarsi normal ; spurs very pale reddish ; teguljB 

 brown, with the margin hyaline, not enlarged. Wings 

 hyaline basally, dilute reddish-fuliginous apically; stigma 

 pale orange-testaceous, nervures testaceous; second s.m. 

 approximately square, receiving fa*st r.n. a little beyond 

 middle. Abdomen dullish sericeous, the hind margins of 

 the segments shining; first segment with the basal half 

 blackish, with an interrupted red band, the apical part clear 

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