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distance between the spots over twice the diameter of either; 

 third dark at extreme base and apex, with four small spots of 

 yellow, the inner ones mere dots ; fourth broadly black at 

 base, with an obscure yellow dot on each side, and a broad 

 transverse median yellow band, truncate on each side aud 

 constricted in the middle ; fifth with a broad yellow band 

 across middle ; pygidial plate very large, covered with 

 shining yellowish- silvery hair; third and fourth ventral seg- 

 ments with large yellow marks, fifth with a bifid mark in 

 middle and an elongate one on each side. 



Hub. Formosa {Saut'er), ] ? . Berlin Museum. Genus 

 new to Formosa. 



In Nurse^s key to the Indian species, Nomada secessa runs 

 to N. beata, Nurse, to which it seems to be related, differing 

 in the sculpture of the metathorax (the area in secessa 

 granular, plicate basally, without a median impressed line) 

 and the details of the ornamentation. In Schmiedeknecht^s 

 table of European species it runs with little difficulty to 

 N. rujicornis, L., to which it is evidently related, although 

 certainly distinct. 



Allodape marginata, Smith. 



So far as I can at present ^eiermme, A. marginata, Smith, 

 A. plnlippinemis (Ashmead), and A. cupulifera, Vachal, con- 

 stitute a single widely distributed species. I have before 

 me, from the Berlin Museum, one male and twenty-five 

 females collected by Sauter in Formosa, mostly at Takao, 

 Aug. 18 to Dec. 2, 1907. One female is from Taihanroku, 

 June 11, 1908. The male only differs from cupulifera in the 

 absence of a yellow line on the scape. The linear lateral 

 face-marks are mentioned by Vachal, but overlooked by 

 Bingham. The first abdominal segment in some specimens 

 collapses on drying, giving rise to the '' cupulifera " 

 character. 



A. picitarsis, Cameron, from the Laccadive Islands, is a 

 close relativ^e, but the light colour of the female clypeus is 

 not at all broadened below, and there are other differences. 

 My specimen oi picitarsis (one of the original lot) has the 

 first abdominal segment cupuliferous through collapsing. 



Exoneura Ubanensis, Friese, 



I am greatly indebted to the Rev. F. D. Morice for one of 

 the original examples of this Syrian species. It is a female ; 

 the male is unknown. Mr. Morice writes me that it was 

 found high up on Lebanon, in a climate much like that of 



