Records of Bees. C61 



orbital yellow bands, below by antennae, or extending down 

 to clypeus ; mcsothorax black, with broad lateral yellow 

 margins, or the yellow, which curves round a short distance 

 in fVoi)t, may be connected anteriorly with subdorsal yellow 

 bands, which are convex mesad ; base of scutcllum with a 

 broad triangular black area. Abdomen with black or red 

 median line and more or less defined basal bauds ; apex 

 very broadly truncate, augulate at sides, with a median 

 truncate process. 



Deesa, India, March 1901 (C. G. Nurse), 2 ? , 2 (^ . 



The end of the male abdomen resembles that of Anthidiuni 

 barl/iolomei, Had., except that the median process is shorter 

 and abru})tly truncate as in A. fedischenkoi, Mor, The sides 

 of the sixth segment are angulate, but not produced poste- 

 riorly. Col. Nurse described this in MS. several years ago, 

 but by some oversight the description was not published. He 

 now asks me to make the insect known, as his MS. has been 

 mislaid, and he has no materials for comparison. Specimens 

 have been placed in the British Museum. 



This species rests uncomfortably in Diantlddium, having 

 no well-defined pulvilli, but it falls in the bellicosum group, 

 as that is now understood. 



Dianthidium saltutor (Nurse). 



Anthidium scdtator, Nurse, must also fall in Dianthidium, 

 though the pulvilli are rudimentary. In describing D. sinu- 

 pinuni, I suggested that it might be a race of saltator, but 

 specimens of the latter received from Col. Nurse show that 

 the species are quite distinct, particularly in the character 

 of the scutellum. 



Nomia borneana, Cameron. 

 N. syn. Xomia tiiberculi/rons, Ckll., 1920. 



I was able to determine the identity by comparison with 

 Camerouiau material of borneana in the British Museum. 



Halictus punctatus (Smith), 



Nomia punctata, Smith, 1858, from Celebes, is a male 

 Halictus, as shown by the type at Oxford. The mesothorax 

 has very large punctures ; area of metathorax with verv 

 coarse plicae. \Vings strongly dusky; prothorax has two 

 sharp angles at each side ; end of abdomen with a large round 

 red plate. 



