1 1 8 Descriptions ayid Records of Bees. 



end of niar{?inal cell. Legs red, but liiud tarsi black, the 

 basitarsus very broad. 



.Saigon, Cochin China (from Le Moult). Received froui 

 Queensland ^luseum. 



This is probably a subspecies of Bingham's M. ampidata, 

 haviug the clypeus with a median smooth baud, slightly de- 

 pressed, and the mandibles with a subapical fossa. The 

 original M. ampntata, Smitii, from Sarawak, though similar 

 in appearance, was descril)ed as having the clypeus keeled, 

 and is related to M. harrisoni, Ckll., from Sumatra, aud 

 M.ferruginea, Friese, from Siam. M.fulvofasciata, liads., 

 from Sikkim, which Bingham placed as a doubtful synonym 

 of amputata, is only 10 mm. loug, with whitish scopa. 



Nomada penanyensis, sp. u. 



? . — Length about 4 mm. 



Ferruginous, with the front (except a broad red band on 

 each side) and ocellar region black. Abdomen highly 

 polished, without yellow spots, the first two segments 

 broadly dusky apicallv, the third and fourth darkened all 

 over, but the apex light red ; face and pleura with thin pure 

 white hair; mandibles simple; scape testaceous in front; 

 flagellum dark ; second antennal joint about half as long as 

 third, third about as long as fourth ; mesothorax densely 

 punctured, clear red all over ; tegulaj ferruginous. AVings 

 liyaline with dusky apex, nervures aud stigma dark ; b. n. 

 going a little basad of t.-m. ; second t.-c. lacking on right 

 side of tyjje, but the op])ositc wing has three subniarginal 

 cells. The antcnuie are quite lonjj;, reaching the metathorax. 



Island of Peuang {Baker, 99G8). 



Itcsembles some of the Philippine species, but separated 

 by the small size, combined with dark front and entirely red 

 mesothorax. ]t is especially close to N. atlr'ita, Ckll., from 

 Mindanao, and were not the localities so far apart it might 

 be thought a mere variety. 



Parasphecodes infrahirtus, sp. n. 



S (^vpe). — Length about 7'5 ram. 



Entirely black, except that the apical half of clypeus 

 (angularly produced in middle above) is cream-colour, the 

 mandibles are fairly red at apex, aud the tarsi arc dusky 

 ferruginous npicnlly. Head broader than long ; face and 

 clypeus roughened, not polished ; autennie long, the tla- 

 gellura submouiliform; head aud thorax with thiu loug 



