104 Descriptions and Records of Bees. 



is marked Coorg Sidapur, Rockhill, 3500 ft., April 23-26, 

 1919 (T. V.R.). 



Readily known from S. parvida, Cam., by the tuberculate 

 elypeus. 



Lithurgus australior, Cockerel]. 



Described from the male. A female is from Coirnbatore, 

 India, Dec, 24, 1918 (Ramakrishna Ayyar). It is about 

 12 - 5 mm. long, and rims in Friese's table nearest to the 

 Australian L. dentipes, but the structure of the face is 

 different. It is very near L. scabrosvs (Smith), but the 

 white hair-bands on abdomen are broader. The ventral 

 scopa is brownish black. 



Ceratina binghami, Cockerel], 

 Salem, India, Dec. 2-18, 1914 (Ramakrishna Ayyar). 



Nomia iridescens, Smith. 

 Bangalore, India, May (T. V.K.). 



Nomia histrionica, sp. n. 



<$ . — Length about 10'5 mm. 



Running in Bingham's table to N. curvipes, from which 

 it differs conspicuously in the mesothorax, which shows the 

 black densely and minutely punctured surface, with a con- 

 spicuous band of ochreous hair all around the margins ; in 

 the smaller scutellum, the creamy-white hair of metathorax, 

 the ivory-colour (not greenish or reddish) abdominal bands, 

 the hair fringing sixth abdominal segment white, and the 

 clear red (instead of black) basal part of hind femora. In 

 my table in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xxxvii. p. 233, it runs to 

 N. aureohirta, Cam., to which it is also closely allied, differing 

 by the paler hair of face, the flagellum chestnut-red beneath, 

 the mesothorax as described above, the scutellum with the 

 densely punctured surface exposed, the broad tegumentary 

 abdominal bands bare, and the hind tibiae with a large black 

 spot. The shape of the hind tibiae is also highly charac- 

 teristic ; the anterior margin is undulating, so that the whole 

 tibia resembles the head of a deer, the apical lamina 

 representing the ear. The abdomen has a well-developed 

 subapical dentiform process. It is also related to N. 

 ebumigera, Ckll., but the face and abdomen are broader, and 

 the hind tibia is different. It is quite distinct from N. 

 fulvohirta, Cam., and N. varipes, Cam., from Allahabad. 



Koilpaty, Tinnevelly, India, Dec. 3, 1906 (T. V. R.). 



Andronicus cylindricus, Cresson. 

 Boulder, Colorado, May 14, 1919, <J (Katherine Fitz- 

 gerald). 



