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THE ANNALS 



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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 72. DECEMBER 1913. 



LXTTT. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LV. 

 hy T. D. A. Cocrerell, University of Colorado. 



Nomia muscosa, Cookerell. 



This was described from the female ; the male hardly 

 differs in appearance, and has the hind legs very little 

 modified. The hind tibise have white hair on the outer side, 

 and short, shining, purplish-brown hair on the inner, only 

 well seen in an oblique view. The antennae are dark. 

 Males before me are from Mack ay, Queensland, Jan., 

 March, November, 1900 (Turner, 618), and New South 

 Wales (Nat. Mus. Victoria, 71). 



Nomia hippophila purnongensis, subsp. n. 



(J .- — Head and thorax olive-green, with coppery tints ; 

 abdomen bright olive-green ; tegulse fulvous (or with a 

 black basal shade), with pallid margins; fiagellum. black 

 above, fulvous beneath except at apex ; hind femora much 

 swollen, metallic green, red at apex ; hind tibiae mainly 

 green. 



Length about 7 mm. 



Hub. Purnong, Australia, two (Fulton ; Nat. Mus. Vic- 

 toria, 159, 217). 



A r . hippophila, Ckll., is closely allied to N. flavoviridis, 

 Ckll., and perhaps to be regarded as a southern subspecies. 

 Males of N. hippophila before me are from "' Windsor, 



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