484 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



LX. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — XLVIt. 

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



Ceratina lata, Spiuola. 

 Trinidad, March 1912 {Hugh Scott). New to Trinidad. 



Ceratina minima, Friese. 



Trinidad, March 22, 1912 {Hugh Scott). Three males, 

 marked " Diego Martin ; herbage by stream." 



Nomada [Micronomada) jamaicensis, sp. n. 



? . Length a little over 6 mm. 



Ferruginons, including the legs, biit the al)domen mainly 

 black above ; head Inroad ; basal part of mandibles broadly- 

 pale yellow ; sides of iface broadly light yellow, this colour 

 ending obtusely a little above level of middle of front, and 

 below ending about level of middle of clypeus; labrum 

 blackish in middle ; clypeus, supraclypeal area, front and 

 cheeks bright ferruginous, the cheeks witli a broad yellow 

 stripe along npper part of orbits ; interocellar region 

 blackened ; antennae entirely ferruginous, third joint longer 

 than fourth ; thorax above densely and coarsely pimctured, 

 the ridges between the punctures shining ; npper border of 

 prothorax, tubercles, scutellum, band on postscutellum, two 

 large patches on metathorax, and very large transverse 

 patches on pleura, bright yellow ; mesothorax suffused with 

 black in middle posteriorly, and area of metathorax also 

 blackish ; the extremely scanty pubescence of thorax light 

 fulvous above, white at sides ; tegulae creamy white, punc- 

 tured. Wings long, with a conspicuous dusky apical cloud ; 

 stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous ; b. n. meeting t.-m. ; 

 second s.m. receiving first r. n. before middle. Legs bright 

 red, hind coxae with a large yellow mark, hind tibise slightly 

 yellowish at base ; spines of anterior cox£e short, but very- 

 distinct. Abdomen very finely punctured : first segment 

 with a broad yellow band, narrowest in middle, the part 

 before the band dark red ; second segment with a yellow 

 band which is extremely Ijroad at sides, but greatly narrowed, 

 . or even broken, in middle ; third and fourth segments with 

 a large yellow mark on each side, fifth with a band (these 

 markings often largely concealed by the retraction of the 

 segments) ; apical segment with a semicircular pale pubes- 

 cent area ; venter dark ferruginous, with a broad yellow 

 band on third segment, 



