Records of Bees. 1505 



N. Gilberti, $ . j N. tenuihirta, 5 . 



Basal enclosure of metathorax I Basal enclosure of metatliorax 



nearly or quite as broad (antero- i almost linear at sides ; dull, 



posteriorly) at sides as the width ' granular, without distinct cross- 



of the second submarginal cell ; l ridges. 



shining, with irregular but very 



distinct cross-ridges. j 



Tegulse piceous, with a whitish I Teguloe pale testaceous, fuscous 



spot on outer margin. | basally, and with a whitish 



patch posteriorly. 



Raised facial line extending far Raised facial line hardly invading 



down clypeus. clypeus. 



Stigma honey-colour. i Stigma dark reddish-piceous. 



Wings more hyaline, with the apex i Wings more dusky, the apex uni- 



obviously darkened. form with the rest. 



In N. Gilberti the triangular area forming the lower 

 extension of the nietathoracic enclosure is perfectly smooth 

 and shining, and cut off from the ridged area by a transverse 

 keel ; in N. tenuihirta this part is minutely granular like the 

 I'est, and not conspicuously cut off from it. 



Nomia semiaurea, sp. n. 

 ? . — Length about 10 mm. 



Rather broad, the abdomen top-shaped ; black, with some- 

 times a green tint on middle of first abdominal segment ; 

 pubescence entirely fulvous or golden, except a very few 

 scattered dark hairs on mesothorax. Face not very broad ; 

 inner orbital margins strongly concave above; clypeus 

 densely covered with elongate punctures (strawberry- 

 surface) ; face with fulvous tomentum ; supraclypeal area 

 convex ; longitudinal line very fine, extending from middle 

 ocellus to beyond middle of clypeus ; mandibles bidentate, 

 more or less stained with dark reddish ; flagellum dull dark 

 brown, delicately pruinose, light at tip ; vertex and front 

 with very minute punctures; mesothorax only sparingly 

 hairy, the pubescence quite inconspicuous, its surface 

 minutely roughened but rather shining, Avith the punctures 

 large and deep, close at the sides, larger and more separated 

 in the middle; tubercles densely covered with fulvous 

 tomentum, as also the postscutellum (which may, however, 

 he denuded) ; sides of metathorax with long pale fulvous 

 hair ; posterior face very well-defined, shining, with strong 

 large punctures, and only covered with a very fine tomentum ; 

 upper part bare and strongly and closely punctured, but the 

 true enclosure is reduced almost to nothing ; tegulas rathei- 

 large, orange-fulvous. Wings dusky, especially the apical 

 part, stigma and ncfvurcs brown; second submarginal cell 



