504 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Abdomen with broad entire ivory-white bands, the first a little 

 greenish. Legs red, pointed process on hind tibise enormous. 



The type female, labelled as from the Gaboon (Smith's 

 description says Gambia), seems to be the same species, but 

 is perhaps distinct, as the abdomen (excluding bands) is 

 densely rugoso-punctate in male and smooth with separated 

 punctures in female. In both the scutellar lobes are ferru- 

 ginous. 



The female should be regarded as the true type, being first 

 described. 



Nomia (Crocisaspidia) crocisceformis, Bingham, 1903. 



The type male, from Abyssinia, was examined, and found 

 to be a genuine Crocisaspidia in every respect. Length 

 about 14 mm., expanse 25. Face covered with white hair. 

 Anterior wings dark fuscous; second s.m. square, less than 

 half length of third, first r. n. joining it near apex. Tongue 

 elongate; flagellum dull ferruginous beneath; mesothorax 

 dull, with dense small punctures, scutellum the same ; ante- 

 rior and middle tibia? and tarsi clothed with white hair on 

 outer side ; hind tibioe of the triangular type, the apical 

 projection ferruginous ; abdomen with large lateral quadrate 

 white spots, faintly tinged with green; hind femora swollen. 



"Walker wrote (1871) of JV. vespoides, Walker, and 

 JN. zonaria, Walker, from the Red Sea, that " the thin forked 

 edge which forms the hind border of the scutellum " distin- 

 guishes them from other JVomice. I infer from this that they 

 belong to Crocisaspidia. N. zonaria is perhaps the Same 

 as xV. lamellata (Egyptian form). 



Camptopmum persicum, sp. n. 



$ . — Length a little over 6 mm. 



Black and very pale yellow ; head and thorax with abun- 

 dant very pale yellowish hair ; head black, with mandibles 

 (except tips), labium, clypeus, large supraclypeal mark 

 (obtusely rounded above between antennas), dog-ear marks 

 (almost wholly above level of clypeus), and lateral marks 

 (ending above rather obtusely at about level of middle of 

 scape) all very pale yellow ; scape pale yellow in front ; 

 flagellum reddish brown above, orange beneath, the second 

 and third joints partly ringed with brown beneath ; eyes 

 very broad ; thorax black, with the following parts very light 

 yellow, upper border of prothorax, tubercles, scutellum (or 

 the yellow reduced to a pair of transversely oblong spots), 

 postscutellum, and sometimes a pair of short oblique bands 



