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NOMADA EXCELLENS Cockerell. 



A female from Los Angeles County, California, collected in May by 

 Coquillett, is about 13 mm. long, but apart from its unusually large 

 size agrees well with this species. 



NOMADA JAPONICA Smith. 



Specimens from Japan in the U. S. National Museum agree with 

 one from Hiogo, from the F. Smith collection. 



NOMADA CAROLINiE Cockerell. 



Longview, Texas, four females, March 26, 1908 (E. S. Tucker). Pre- 

 viously known from North Carolina and Virginia (Falls Church, 

 Banks). The Texan specimens have the mesothorax variable from 

 distinctly banded to bandless, and the band on the metathorax 

 absent, though the lower corner of the inclosure is black. 



NOMADA LEPIDA Cresson. 



Mound, Louisiana, "on turnip," one male, March 7, (Bishopp). 



Females are from Dallas, Texas, March 17, at Rubus (Cushman); 

 Dallas, April 9, on dewberry (Crawford); Beaumont, Texas, March 

 18 (Tucker); Wolfe City, Texas, on Crataegus, March 27 (Bishopp); 

 Paris, Texas, April 10 and 11 (Bishopp). 



From Ardmore, Oklahoma, come many specimens. The males (on 

 wild plum. Mar. 31, Bishopp) are small, and the tegulae are pale 

 reddish or yellowish-red, tending toward cuneata. The females are 

 light colored, as in lepida (cuneata must evidently stand as N. lepida 

 cuneata). The Ardmore females were taken by Bishopp on wild 

 plum, and by Bishopp and Jones on blackberry, in March and April. 

 Two have yellow marks on the fifth abdominal segment; all have the 

 mesothorax with a single dark band. Ardmore is only a short dis- 

 tance from the Texas line, and while classed in the humid austral, is 

 very near the boundary between the humid and arid. Paris and 

 Wolfe, Texas, are well in the humid division. 



NOMADA PARVA Robertson. 



Females from Ardmore, Oklahoma, April 11, at Salix (Bishopp) 

 and Denton, Texas, April 26 (C. R. Jones). The basal nervure does 

 not go so far basad of the t. m. as in N. infantula, but the two are sepa- 

 rated with difficulty in the female, especially as in the Denton speci- 

 men there are only two spots on each side of the abdomen. 



NOMADA SAYI Robertson. 



Females from Paris, Texas, April 11 (Bishopp), and Mound, Loui- 

 siana, April 2 (Bishopp). In these the basal nervure goes less basad 

 of the t. m. than in a male saiji received from Robertson. From 

 Pittsburg, Texas, April 7 (Bishopp) comes a female with two yellow 



