116 



A I'll). I- . 



The fascia on Hip ™ I i J ' formm S a series of spots, 

 three. ^ ""^ 8e S ments ™7 in being one, two, or 



tt ^^^^'t- J ^-discovered by 

 were token and submitted fn^f' Avhen . onl y a few specimen; 

 -ect appeared ^^t^S7T% t* ** *" the 

 examination and comnarisor, L i ! ' ^ oWfl lateralis- but on 

 themselves. I u jSSSttT^ ^^ differences Rented 

 in the new s' -^ "'i*^ 6 ™*™! arel — " 



jy J ^ „. ,^ B oi tnan the thoiaA ; 



t 5Sbie8 the^arTT scarcely as long ; the latter has also 

 & e'dow tubercles, no longitudinal ferruginous stripes on the meso- 

 thorax, and only two spots on the scutellum : JV. lateralis has 

 red tubercles, red lines on the thorax, and the scutellum is 

 entirely red. It also somewhat resembles N. fabriciana ; but its 

 red labrum and mandibles, together with its yellow tubercles and its 

 not having the subapical joints of its antennae black above, separate it 

 from that species*. The specimens I have received were captured at 

 Brundall, near Norwich, at the beginning of May this season ; but 

 last year they appeared about the middle of April. 



6. Nomada ochrostoma. 



If. atra ; labio, clypeo facieique lateribus ferrugineis, thorace lineis 

 tribus longitudinalibus atris, scutello rufo, abdomine flavo-maeu- 

 lato. 



Nomada ochrostoma, Schaff. Germ. Zeits. i. 280 $ . 



Smith, Zool ii. 596 ; Bees Great Brit. 122 6 2 ■ 

 Apis ochrostoma, Kirbt/, Man. Apum Any], ii. 209 <$ . 

 Apis hillana, Kirby, lib. eit. 208 var. tf ■ 

 Nomada vidua, Smith, Zool. ii. 602 5 . 

 Nomada puuctiscuta, Thorns. Hi/m. Seancl. ii. 193. 



Female. Length 4-4| lines. — Head aud thorax black, the labrum, 

 mandibles, clypeus, orbits of the eyes, and a line passing behind 

 the ocelli ferruginous; the antenna? ferruginous ; the scape usually 

 more or less black above. Thorax — the collar, tubercles, a large 

 patch beneath the wings, a smaller ovate spot on the breast beneath, 

 two longitudinal stripes on the disk of the thorax, an epaulet 

 over the tegulae, reaching the scutellum and the postscutellum, 

 red ; the wings subhyaline, the apical margins having a dark fus- 

 cous cloud, and a pale macula beyond the third submarginal cell ; 

 the legs red ; the coxae, trochanters, and femora beneath black. 

 Abdomen ferruginous, black at the base ; the second segment has 

 on each side a large rounded macula, the third a minute spot, the 

 fourth an interrupted transverse band, and the fifth a square patch 

 of vellowish white ; the margins of the segments usually dark rufo- 

 piceous : beneath immaculate. B.M. 



* The male closely resembles some varieties of N. rujuxrrnis ; but the scape of 

 its autennte is entirely black. 



