Records of Bees. 661 
orbital yellow bands, below by antenne, or extending down 
to clypeus ; mesothorax black, with broad lateral yellow 
margins, or the yellow, which curves round a short distance 
in front, may be connected anteriorly with subdorsal yellow 
bands, which are convex mesad; base of scutellum with a 
broad triangular black area. Abdomen with black or red 
median line and more or less defined basal bands ; apex 
very broadly truncate, angulate at sides, with a median 
truncate process. 
Deesa, India, March 1901 (C. G. Nurse), 2 2,2 3. 
The end of the male abdomen resembles that of Anthidium 
bartholomei, Rad., except that the median process is shorter 
aud abruptly truncate as in A. fedtschenkoi, Mor. The sides 
of the sixth segment are angulate, but not produced poste- 
riorly. Col. Nurse described this in MS. several years ago, 
but by some oversight the description was not published. He 
now asks me to make the insect known, as his MS. has been 
mislaid, and he has no materials for comparison. Specimens 
have been placed in the British Museum. 
This species rests uncomfortably in Dianthidium, having 
no well-defined pulvilli, but it falls in the bedlicosum group, 
as that is now understood. 
Dianthidium saltator (Nurse). 
Anthidium saltator, Nurse, must also fall in Dianthidium, 
though the pulvilli are rudimentary. In describing D. sina- 
pinum, I suggested that it might be a race of saltator, but 
specimens of the latter received from Col. Nurse show that 
the species are quite distinct, particularly in the character 
of the scutellum. 
Nomia borneana, Cameron. 
N. syn. Nomia tuberculifrons, Ckll., 1920. 
I was able to determine the identity by comparison with 
Cameronian material of dorneana in the British Museum. 
Halictus punctatus (Smith), 
Nomia punctata, Smith, 1858, from Celebes, is a male 
Halictus, as shown by the type at Oxford. The mesothorax 
has very large punctures; area of metathorax with very 
coarse plice. Wings strongly dusky; prothorax has two 
sharp angles at each side; end of abdomen with a large round 
red plate. 
