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MAGAZINE OF x\AT[JRAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 52. APRIL 1012. 



XXXVTII. — Deacripiions and Records of Bees. — XLIII. 

 By T. D. A. CocKERELL, University of Colorado. 



Nomia [Reepenia) eboracina, sp. n. 



^ . — Length about 10 mm. 



Black and ferruginous ; eyes large ; facial quadrangle 

 about twice as long as broad ; inner orbits concave above ; 

 ocelli large ; supraclypeal area convex ; cWpcus with a 

 median keel ; whole face below antennae, labrum, and man- 

 dibles (except apex) light ochre-yellow ; antennse ferru- 

 ginous, the flagellum dusky above and more or less so 

 beneath toward apex, only slightly crcnulate ; tongue long 

 and linear ; labial palpi with first joint about as long as next 

 two combined, the last three subequal ; maxillary palpi 

 slender, with six subequal joints, the apical ones a little 

 longer than the others ; head and thorax with moderately 

 abundant dull white hair ; hair of middle of face not hiding 

 surface; mesothorax granular, with very fine shallow punc- 

 tures ; scutellum bigil)!)ous, the prominences with distinct 

 apices ; two very obscure stripes on mesothorax, a band 

 along hind margin, and sides of mesothorax and scutellum 

 more or less, dull reddish ; tubercles reddish, fringed with 

 dense yellowish-white hair ; area of metathorax irregularly 

 rugose, pointed behind in middle ; tegulse moderate for 

 Nomia, light amber-colour. Wings rather dusky hyaline, 

 u-iiin. cf- Ma,/. X. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. ix. 2Q 



