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granular from the excessively minute punctures, and fourth 

 the same ;' abdominal bands very beautiful, emerald-green 

 shot with lilac, the third more lilac than green. Known 

 from N. mesiUensis by the more closely punctured first 

 abdominal segment, the much narrower and differently 

 coloured bands, &c. The tongue is linear. 



Bab. Southern Pines, North Carolina, June 19, 1909 

 (A. H. Manee). In coll. Birkmann. 



Nomia fedorensis, sp. n. 



? . — Like JV. maneei, bnt a little larger, with the following 

 distinctive characters : flagellum bright ferruginous beneath 

 (duller and browner than in maneei) ; disc of scutellum much 

 more closely punctured ; first abdominal segment with very 

 strong, regular punctures ; second also much more strongly 

 punctured ; abdominal bands broader, very brilliant, coloured 

 as in maneei, except that the first is flushed with vermilion. 

 Both species have a prominent ridge down the middle of the 

 clypeus ; this also occurs in foxii. N. fedorensis is easily 

 known from foxii by the much more finely and closely 

 punctured third abdominal segment, and the very strongly 

 and regularly punctured first segment. 



$ . — Similar to N. foxii, but very easily separated by the 

 entirely black legs, the hind femora much thicker and more 

 humped above. The second abdominal segment has a very 

 deep constriction ; the fourth segment is punctured in the 

 manner of foxii, not at all as in universitatis. 



Bab. Fedor, Lee County, Texas, June 7, 1909, June 1910 

 (Birkmann). 



Lithurgus albojimbriatus, Sichel. 



The Lithurgus from Tahiti, which I formerly recorded as 

 L. atratiformis, CklL, is in reality L. albojimbriatus. The 

 two species are extremely closely allied, but atratiformis has 

 the white bands on abdomen, above and below, about twice 

 as broad as in albojimbriatus. 



Megachile aurifrons, Smith. 



Smith described this from " New Holland," but I have a 

 specimen from his collection labelled Queensland. Mr. Turner 

 also took it at Mackay (his number 288). The mandibles 

 of this species are five-toothed in the female. 



