Records oj Bees. 063 



Nomia basalicincfa, n. n. 



Nomia basalis, Smith, 1875, from India, requires a new 

 name. 



Perdita octomaculata (Say). 



In tlie Oxford INIuseum is a female of this species^ with a 

 manuscript name by Lepeletier. It appears to have originally 

 belonged to Latreille. 



Ancyloscklis, Latreille. 



Latreille's original specimen is at Oxford, and is a black 

 Tetrapcedia. Wings dark, venation as in T. diversipes, K\u^; 

 scape red ; clypeus and supraclypeal area highly polished ; 

 thorax above witli erect black hair ; hind tarsi and apex 

 of tibiic red, with pale fulvous-tinted hair. Apparently a 

 form of T. diversipes, or at least very closely allied. As no 

 species was named, the way was left open for Haliday to 

 later publish Ancylosceles (using a slightly different spelling) 

 for another species which did, in fact, represent a new genus. 

 Halliday, however, was not aware that his insect was generi- 

 cally distinct. 



Crocisa albopicia, Cockerell. 



At the British Museum I compared my type with that of 

 C. lugtibris, Smith. The spots are of the same colour in 

 both. C. albopicta has a spot of white hair at median base 

 of first abdominal segment, and the anterior median mark 

 on mesotborax is bar-like ; in C. lugubris there is no white 

 spot at median base of first segment, and anterior median 

 mark of mesothorax is pyriform in outline. They are, 

 however, so much alike that we must write C. luyubris, var. 

 albopicta. 



Halictus viridis, Brulle. 



La Laguna, Teneriffe, 1900 ft. (F. A. Bellamy). Oxford 

 Museum. 



Blue-green ; abdomen same colour as thorax ; area of 

 metathorax with faint imperfect plicae, but hardly any 

 sculpture ; stigma and nervures fuscous ; hind spur of $ 

 with long spines; anterior wing about 6'5 mm. long. Has 

 rather the aspect of a Ceratina. 



