2. NOMA PA. 12 J 



15. Nomada rubra. 



j '. atra, mandibulis flavis, thoraee ferrugineo variegato ; abdomine 

 ferrugineo, immaculato. 



Nomada rubra, Smith, Zool. vii. Append. 41 2 > B ees Great Brit. 131. 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Ferruginous : tlie mandibles yellow ; a 

 spot at the base of the antennae, the tips of the scape above, and 

 the cheeks black, a line behind the eyes ferruginous. Thorax, the 

 tubercles yellow ; the disk and the metathorax black ; a line over 

 the tegula?, the scutellum, and the postscutellum ferruginous ; the 

 sides of the metathorax and the posterior coxa), which are black, 

 clothed with silvery pubescence; the abdomen ferruginous, immacu- 

 late, the apical segment fringed with silvery pubescence. 13 M. 



In this species the tips of the posterior femora are produced above 

 into a blunt spinose process; it is unique in the collection of the 

 British Museum, and is supposed to have been captured in Devon- 

 shire at Kingsbridge. I have not seen it in any continental collec- 

 tion. It is quite distinct from N. rufa of Rossi. 



16. Nomada fabriciana. 



N. atra ; antennis rufis, nigro annulatis ; abdomine ferrugineo, ma- 

 culis duabus flavis. JIas abdomine ferrugineo, maculis quatuor 

 flavis. 



Nomada fabriciana, Fabr. Fnt. Syst. ii. 348 ; Syst. Piez. 393 £ • 



Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 152. 



Schiiff. Germ. Zeits. i. 277. 



Smith, Zool. ii. 598 ; Bees Great Brit. 133 J $ . 



Xyland, Notts, ur Stilish, pro Faun, et Flo. Fenn. i. 183. 



Schenck, Nass. Bien. 389. 



Thorns. Opusc. Fnt. 94: Hym. Scand. ii. 201. 

 Apis fabriciana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 955 £ . 



Rossi, Faun. Ftrus. Mant. no. 324. 

 Apis fabriciella, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 213, tab. 16. fig. 3 9 i 

 iVpis quadrinotata, Kirby, lib. cit. 214 S • 

 Nomada quadrinotata, St.-Fary. Hym. ii. 494. 



Female. Length 3|-5 lines. — Head and thorax black ; the antennas 

 rufous, the scape, basal joint of the flagellum above, and four or 

 five joints towards the apex black, the apical one red ; the apex of 

 the mandibles ferruginous ; the face and cheeks have a silvery 

 pubescence. Thorax — the tegulse, tibiae in front, the femora at 

 their apex in front, and the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous. 

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

 each side an ovate macula, and the third a minute one, yellow ; the 

 margins of the apical segments piceous. B.M. 



Var. /3. The third segment immaculate. 



Var. y. The spot on the second segment minute, that on the third 

 obsolete. 



