360 Mr. 'J\ D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



JSomia aurifrons, Smith. 



On comparing: Smith's type $ with the type of my 

 i\^. andreni7ia, I find them identical. 



J^omia exagens (Walker). 



HaUctus timtdus, Smith, from Ceylon, is the same, as 

 Meade-Waldo had determined from the types in the British 

 Museum, and I can confirm. 



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Nomia zehrata, Cameron. 

 The types of N. zehrata, Cameron, and N. frederici, 

 Cameron, in the Rothney collection at Oxford, represent the 

 same species. 



I^omia pidchriventris (Cameron). 



Bingham says of lialictiis pulchri'ventris, Cameron : "type 

 (J) in coll. Rothney." I found it there, and it is a Nomia 

 with claviform abdomen ; hind basitarsi yellowish white. 



I also foutid one, marked type, in the British Museum. 

 Anterior wing 7 mm. long, dusky, darker at apex. Hind 

 legs simple. 



Spheoodes camaronii (Bingham). 



HaUctus cameronii, Bingham, 1897 {decorus, Cameron), is 

 a small Sphecodes, as shown by the type in the Rothney 

 collection. 



$ . — No caudal rima ; first three abdominal segments 

 briglit chestnut ; face very broad; mesothorax and scutelliim 

 shining. 



India. 



Sphecodes iridescens, n. n. 

 Sphecodes cameroni, Scliulz, 1906 (mdipennis, Cameron), S. Africa. 



Hcdictus kalutara, Cockerell. 



Meade- Waldo (1916) found that Nomia vincta, Walker, 

 was an HaUctus, and placed my halutarce as a synonym. On 

 comparing the types in the British Museum I find that they 

 are distinct. In kahitarce the sharp rugse on anterior part of 

 mesothorax on each side of middle line bend backward, to 



