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



Nomia aurifrons, Smith. 



On comparing- Smitli's type $ with tlie type of my 

 iV^. cmdrenina, I find them identical. 



Nomia exagens (Walker). 



Hah'ctus thm'dus, Smith, from Ceylon, is the same, ass 

 Meade- Waldo had determined from the types in the British 

 Musenm, and I can confirm. 



Nomia zebrata, Cameron. 



The types of N. zebrata, Cameron, and N. frederici, 

 Cameron, in the Rothney collection at Oxford, represent tlie 

 same species. 



Nomia pxdchriventris (Cameron). 



Bingham says of Hah'ctus pulchriventris^ Cameron : " type 

 ((J) in coll. Rothney." I found it there, and it is a Nomia 

 W'itli claviform abdomen ; hind baaitarsi yellowish white. 



I also found one, marked type, in the British Museum. 

 Anterior wing 7 mm. long, dusky, darker at apex. Hind 

 legs simple. 



Spheoodes cameromi (Bingham). 



Halictus cameromi, Bingham, 1897 {decorus, Cameron), is 

 a small Sphecodes, as shown by the type in the Rothney 

 collection. 



? . — No caudal rima ; first three abdominal segments 

 bright chestnut ; face very broad; mesothorax and scutellum 

 shining. 



India. 



Sphecodes iridescens, n. n. 

 Sphecodes cameroni, Scbulz, 1906 [iridipejinis, Cameron). S. Africa. 



Halictus kalutarce, Cockerell. 



Meade-Waldo (1916) found that Nomia vincta, Walker, 

 was an Hah'ctus, and placed my kahitara> as a synonym. On 

 comparing the types in the British Museum I find that they 

 are distinct. In kahitarce the sharp rugse on anterior part of 

 mesothorax on each side of middle line bend backward, to 



