Records of Bees. 121 



Ileriades sauten pJiilippinensis (Friese). 



Pliilippiiie Islands ; the type from Los Banos. A feninle 

 from Manila (Robert Brown) is in U.S. Nat. Museum. 



Tliis ilitfeis from //. sauteri in the more tinely i)unctured 

 mesothorax and first abdominal segment. 



Trigona itama, Cockerell. 



Described from Singapore, but I cannot distinguisli a 

 specimen from Pelaboean Ratoe, Java [Bryant S:^ Palmer), in 

 U.S. Xat. Museum. 



The black tegulfe distinguish it from T. iridipennin, Smith, 

 which seems to be the common species in Java. The wings 

 arc fuliginous. 



Nomia hantarica, sp. n. 



cJ . — Length nearly 8 mm. ; anterior wing G*7 mm. 

 Head black, with the clypeus (except sides above) and 

 region of mouth ferruginous ; mandibles very pale basally, 

 dark chestnut-red apically; face densely covered with golden 

 pile; vertex polished and shining; scape clear ferruginous; 

 ttagellum black above and red beneath ; thorax black, with 

 the tubercles, scutellum, and postscutellum clear red ; upper 

 border of prothorax densely covered with cream-coloured 

 tomcntum ; mesothorax bare, dullish, the sculpture extremely 

 fine; scutellum convex, not at all bigibbous; metathorax 

 highly polished ; tegulje testaceous. Wings dusky, nervures 

 and tljB large stigma dusky reddish ; second s.m. small, third 

 long. Legs clear light ferruginous, with concolorous hair ; 

 hind legs simple, but the femora and tibi<e rather stout. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining, without hair-bands, fenu- 

 ginous, with a large black patch on each side of second 

 segment, third and fourth segments with very broad black 

 bands. The tegulte are not eidarg-ed. 



Bantar, Gebaug, Java [Bryant (fc Palmer). U.S. Nat. 

 Museum. 



By its coloration it recalls N. grihodoi, Vachal, from 

 Bt)rneo, but that has the abdomen eight-spotted and the 

 scutellum bigibbous. 



IJalicius Iceviventris, Perez. 



Tokyo, Japan [Sasaki, 149). 



Perez says this is of the size of IT. fallax, which would be 

 7"5-8 mm., but he sj.ys that H. discrepans, 8 mm. long, is 

 emailcr than hevivenlris. The specimens of hcviventn's 



