Records of Bees. 493 



Nomia mesillensis, Cockerell. 

 At Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the first week of August, 

 1912, I took a good seiies of Nomia at flowers of Peritoma 

 serrulatum. To my surprise I find that the females are all 

 N. mesillensis, while the males are those ascribed by me 

 (Ann. & Mag, Nat. Hist., Oct. 1908, p. 333) to N.foxii. 

 Fox described his punctata [foxii, D. T.) from the female, 

 and the ''distinctly punctured" abdomen clearly indicates 

 the female I hfive called foxii rather than mesillensis. This 

 female (from Las Cruces and Rincon, New Mexico) is, 

 however, evidently the recently published A'^. mcctczumfp, 

 Crawford, which must, I think, be a synonym of N.foxii. 

 The matter will be settled by the e.^amiuation of the type of 

 foxii, from Vega, S. Jose, N. M, 



Nomia nevadensis, Cressoii. 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico, Aug. 3, 1912 (Cockerell), 



Nomia savignyi, Kohl. 

 Multan, India, Sept. 1909 {E. Comber). British Museiim. 



Nomia comperta, sp. n, 

 (J.— Length 10^ mm. 



Black, with approximately the basal half of abdomen red ; 

 head broad ; mandibles with a small rufous spot beyond 

 middle; face densely covered with shining creamy-tmted 

 hair ; vertex shining, with very large, scattered, irregularly 

 placed punctures ; autennse long, flagellum crenulate, dull 

 red beneath ; thorax brilliantly shining, the mesothorax and 

 scutellum with scattered strong punctures ; area of meta- 

 thorax shining, with a minutely granular surface, but no 

 ridges, its lateral extensions with a rather strong sulcus 

 running down the middle ; hair of thorax thin aiid long, 

 white, very faintly creamy-tinted dorsally. Legs shining 

 brown-black, with pale hair ; hind coxse with a small apical 

 tubercle posteriorly; hind femora slightly swollen; hind 

 tibiae and tarsi normal ; spurs very pale reddish ; tegulie 

 brown, with the margin hyaline, not enlarged. Winos 

 hyaline basaljy, dilute reddish-fuliginous apically; stigma 

 pale orange-testaceous, nervures testaceous ; second s.m. 

 approximately square, receiving first r.n. a littje beyond 

 middle. Abdomen dullish sericeous, the hind margins of 

 the segments shining; first segment with the basal half 

 blackish, with an interrupted red band, the apical part clear 

 Ann. (& Mag. N. Hist. ►Ser. S. Vol. x, 34 



