Records of Bees. 4S7 



Apis indica nigrocincta (Smith). 



Dapitan, Mindanao (Baker coll. 3660). 

 This agrees with a Chinese specimen from Smith's 

 collection. 



Xylocopa fuliginata, Perez. 



A new locality is Mt. Makiling, Luzon (Baker coll. 5233), 



Mesotrichia bombiformis (Smith). 



Baguio, Benguet (Baker coll. 4995). From the same 

 locality comes a female Xylocopa, fuliginata (Baker coll. 

 4994j. 



Nomioides valdezi, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 4 mm. 



Head and thorax dark steel-blue, abdomen black ; clypeus, 

 labium, end of mandibles, broad but short stripe on scape, 

 tubercles (with extension on sides of prothoracic margin), 

 knees (the anterior broadly), tibise (except large dark mark 

 on hind pair), and tarsi yellow ; abdomen with rather narrow 

 interrupted yellow bands at bases of second and third seg- 

 ments ; front dull ; mesothorax and scutellum brilliantly 

 shining. Wings hyaline, nervures and stigma dilute sepia, 

 second s.m. very small. 



Variety a. — Abdomen with interrupted baud only on third 

 segment, and this may be nearly obsolete. 



I lab. Cagayan, Mindanao (Baker coll. 3670). 



Named alter Julian Valdez, Professor Baker's collector. 

 Very close to the Australian N. perditellus, Ckll., but differs 

 by the much broader head, base of mandibles black, and 

 much darker flagellum. The third antennal joint is not 

 about twice as broad as long, as it is in male perditellus. The 

 wings are not clear white, as they are in the European 

 N. variegatus (Oliv.). 



Nomioides melanogaster, sp. n. 



£ . — Length 4 , 5-5 , 5 mm. 



Head and thorax steel-blue ; abdomen broad, black, without 

 markings, the first segment variably bluish ; clypeus (except 

 two rather large black spots), labium, most of apical half of 

 mandibles, margin of tubercles, knees, anterior tibiae in front, 

 and all the tarsi yellow ; head broad ; clypeus small, sparsely 

 punctured ; antennae long, flagellum dark, very obscurely 

 brownish beneath ; sides of face greenish ; front blackish., 



