480 ^Ir. T. IX A. Cockerell — Descri'/)tions ai}d 



with a very broadly interrupted yellow band, excavated 

 behind sublaterally ; fourtli to sixth with yellow bands, 

 interrupted by a red sp it on each side ; apical plate broa I, 

 notched ; venter red with vellow bauds. 



Tokyo, Japan, April 12, 1909 {Sasaki). U.S. Nat. 

 Museum. It is also labelled Yamada. 



In the table of Palajaretic species it runs near N. manni, 

 Moraw., ditlering by the blade scutelluni. It is quite dis- 

 tinct from all those described from Japan. It is a large 

 species of Nomada, s. str. 



Nomada pyi'ifera, sp. u. 



? . — Len<>th about 10 mm. 



Head and thorax red with black markings, closely punc- 

 tured, the hair white ; labruni pale yellow, with no distinct 

 tooth ; malar space pale yellowish ; mandibles simple, red, 

 black at apex ; lower part of clypeus, and lower part of 

 supraclypeal area, suffusedly yellowish; middle of front, 

 extending to occiput, black, and cheeks black with a broad 

 red band behind eyes ; antennae entirely red, long, reaching 

 to base of abdomen ; third joint scarcely half as long as 

 fourth (this at once separates it from the su[)erficially 

 similar N. japonica, Sm.) ; mesothorax with three black 

 bands, confluent in front ; scutellum strongly elevated, 

 entirely red ; area of metathorax black in middle and red 

 sublaterally ; pleura nearly all red; no yellow on thorax; 

 tegulse pale red. Wings clear, dilute fuscous at apex; 

 stigma ferruginous ; nervures fuscous ; b. n. going far basad 

 of t.-m.; second s.m. very broad, receiving first r. n. about 

 middle. Legs bright ferruginous, hind femora with a black 

 strii)e behind. Abdomen smooth and polished, ferruginous ; 

 basal half of first segment black, second segment with a very 

 large pyriform (pointed mesad) spot on each side ; fourth 

 and fifth segments with yellow bands, failing laterally ; 

 venter with broad yellow bands. 



Japan (presumably Tokyo), May {Sasaki). U.S. Nat. 

 Museum. 



This also runs near N. manni in the Paltearctic fauna, but 

 is readily distinguished by the pattern of abdomen and the 

 red scutellum. Sasaki collected two males, of difl'erent 

 species, which looked like N. pyrifera. One I have described 

 as N. calloptera, as it differs from pyrifera in the colour of 

 the stigma and the basal nervure going less basad ; the other, 

 collected at 'J'okyo in April, I suppose to be the true male 

 oi jjyrij'eru. It is unfortunately in very bad condition, but 



