506 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Victoria" (French ; Froggatt, 187), and near Melbourne 

 (F. P. Spry; Nat. Mus. Vict. 201, 202, 203, 255). 



A new locality for N. flavoviridis is Wagga, N.S.W. 

 (Froggatt, 154). 



Nomia flavoviridis cyanella, subsp. n. 



£ . — Length about 6h vara. 



Head and thorax dark bluish green; abdomen and area 

 of metathorax dark greenish blue ; legs rufo-piceous, with 

 metallic tints, hind femora shining greenish blue; flagellum 

 piceous above, bright ferruginous beneath ; tegulse rufo- 

 piceous ; stigma and nervures dull brown; hind border of 

 mesothorax with two spots of white pubescence. Tongue 

 dagger-shaped. 



Hub. Cooktown, Queensland, October 1902 (Turner). 



Nomia flavoviridis phanerura, subsp. (sp. ?) n. 



$ . — Length about 7 mm. 



Head and thorax dark bluish green, area of metathorax 

 yellowish green ; mesothorax dull and granular, the scattered 

 larger punctures hard to observe, its posterior corners with 

 patches of white hair ; tegulaj large, bright apricot-colour. 

 Wings with the apical field distinctly dusky; stigma and 

 nervures red-brown. Abdomen with the first segment dark 

 green, the others practically black, but the apical depressed 

 parts of all the segments shining golden green; hair-bands 

 on segments 2 to 4, and patches on sides of first, light 

 fulvous, bands on 3 and 4 very broad ; fifth segment and 

 apex ferruginous. 



Hab. Mackay, Queensland, May 1900 (Turner, 1088). 



Resembles N. gracilipes, Smith, in the red apex of abdo- 

 men, but differs in the colour of head and thorax, of abdo- 

 minal bands, &c. 



1 formerly held this to be the female of true N. flavo- 

 viridis, but, although it resembles the male in the colour of 

 the tegulae, I believe that the different female associated 

 (Turner, I'M) with flavoviridis by the collector really belongs 

 to it. This female is larger than phanerura, and has the 

 mesothorax somewhat shining, with the scattered larger 

 punctures quite distinct. The teguke, however, are dark 

 brown, with hyaline borders. The abdominal hair-bands are 

 while, as in the male. The wings arc as in the male, with 

 broad second s.m. 



The female of genuine flavoviridis, as here interpreted, is 

 also before me from Brisbane, May 20, 1912 (Queensl. Mus. 



