102 On the Apidse in the British Museum. 



joint 4 ; an indistinct longitudinal tubercle between antennpe 

 at base ; calli lmmcrales blunt, prominent. Pygidium with 

 a slight apical emargination. 



Length 12 mm. 



Abyssinia: Harar, 1911 (Gunnar Kristensen). Presented 

 by R. E. Turner. 



Nomad a hararensis, sp. n. 



$> . Nigra, abdomine maculis fasciisque pallide flavis ; mandibulis, 

 labro, clypeo apice, anteunis (articulis apicalibus exceptis) angulis 

 pronoti, callis humeralibus, tegulis, post-tegulis, scutello, post- 

 pcutrllo segmentisque ventralibua apicalibus ferrugineis; pedibus 

 (coxis, apice execpto,trochanteribus omnibus femoribusque posticis 

 exceptis) ferrugineis; capito thoraceque sparsim albo-hirtis ; 

 capite tlioraceque sat rugose, abdomine minute punctatis ; area 

 excisa metanoti glabra, incouspicue striata ; alis subbyalinis, area 

 apieali fusco-hyalina. 



Long, i) mm. 



? . Black ; mandibles, labrum, apex of clypeus, antennae 

 (except four terminal joints), lateral angles of pronotum, 

 calli humerales, teguhe, post-tegulse, scutellum,postscutellum, 

 and sternites 5 and 6 ferruginous. Legs (except coxae 

 basally), trochanters, and basal half of posterior femora 

 ferruginous ; tergites 2-1 with ovate lateral spots, tergites 

 5 ami 6 with apical fasciae, pale yellow. Head and thorax 

 •with a sparse whitish pubescence, evenly and distinctly, 

 abdomen very finely punctured, shining, the excised area at 

 base of median segment glabrous, finely striate. Joint 3 of 

 antennae equal to joint 4. 



AYings subhyaliue, the apical area fusco-hyaline. 



Length 9 mm. 



c? . Differs from female in the following respects : — Scape, 

 flagcllum above (terminal joints beneath also), clypeus 

 entirely, scutellum, postscutellum and all the femora, inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae for the most part, black. The 

 males described as the alternate sex were evidently collected 

 with the females, but may possibly be distinct. 



Abyssinia: Harar, 1911 {Gunnar Kristensen). Presented 

 bv R. E. Turner. 

 '9 ? ?,2 S <$. 



All Smith's types of American Noniada are mentioned by 

 Cockerell (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxi. p. 310 et seq.). In 

 mv opinion the genera erected by Robertson (Canad. Ent. 



