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Nomia basalicincta, n. n. 
Nomia basalis, Smith, 1875, from India, requires a new 
name. 
Perdita octomaculata (Say). 
In the Oxford Museum is a female of this species, with a 
manuscript name by Lepeletier. It appears to have originally 
belonged to Latreille. 
ANcyYLoscELIs, Latreille. 
Latreille’s original specimen is at Oxford, and is a black 
Tetrapedia. Wings dark, venation as in T. diversipes, Klug; 
scape red; clypeus and supraclypeal area highly polished ; 
thorax above with erect black hair; hind tarsi and apex 
of tibiz red, with pale fulvous-tinted hair. Apparently a 
form of 7, diversipes, or at least very closely allied. As no 
species was named, the way was left open for Haliday to 
later publish Ancylosceles (using a slightly different spelling) 
for another species which did, in fact, represent a new genus. 
Halliday, however, was not aware that his insect was generi- 
cally distinct. 
Crocisa albopicta, Cockerell. 
At the British Museum I compared my type with that of 
C. lugubris, Smith. The spots are of the same colour in 
both. C. albopicta has a spot of white hair at median base 
of first abdominal segment, and the anterior median mark 
on mesothorax is bar-like ; in C. lugubris there is no white 
spot at median base of first segment, and anterior median 
mark of mesothorax is pyriform in outline. They are, 
however, so much alike that we must write C. lugubris, var. 
albopicta. 
Halictus viridis, Brullé. 
La Laguna, Teneriffe, 1900 ft. (F. A. Bellamy). Oxford 
Museum. 
Blue-green; abdomen same colour as thorax; area of 
metathorax with faint imperfect plice, but hardly any 
sculpture ; stigma and nervures fuscous; hind spur of 9 
with long spines; anterior wing about 6°5 mm. long. Has 
rather the aspect of a Ceratina. 
