722 ZOOLOGY— INSECTS. 



08. NOMIA NORTON I. 

 Nomia Norton!, Chess.. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, i, .3S5. 



1 ? specimen; Colorado; Dr. II. C. Yarrow. 



99. NOMIA NEVADENSIS, up. nor. 

 Plate XXXIV, Figs. 3, 4. 



9 . — Head and thorax black, rather densely clothed with a short ochra- 

 ceous pubescence ; three or four basal joints of antennae, and sometimes the 

 middle of face and clypeus, fulvous ; scutellum and metathorax fulvo-fer- 

 ruginous ; on sides of thorax, the pubescence is long and dense, and short 

 and dense on anterior part of mesothorax, on posterior margin, and on post- 

 scutelhun ; basal space of metathorax inclosed by a Avell-defined carina, and 

 longitudinally rugose; tegulas pale honey-yellow; wings yellowish, with 

 apical margin broadly fuliginous ; legs fulvous, with dense ochraceous pu- 

 bescence ; abdomen fulvous ; apical margin of the segments depressed, pale, 

 and fringed with ochraceous pubescence ; venter fringed with long, ochra- 

 ceous pubescence. Length, 5i lines. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875.) 



S . — Less robust, and more densely pubescent, especially on the face ; 

 posterior femora much swollen and curved ; their tibiae dilated inwardly at 

 tip, which has a stout, obtuse tooth ; the margin above rather deeply emar- 

 ginate ; middle of first and second abdominal segments deeply and trans- 

 versely excavated, the third less deeply so ; fourth and fifth segments, 

 except apical margins, black, the third sometimes tinged with black. 

 Length, 5-5 i lines. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1875.) 



8 <? 9 specimens; Eastern Nevada; 1872; Dr. II. C. Yarrow. 



The pubescence is doubtless much faded from being long immersed in 



alcohol. 



100. EUNOMIA MAEGINIPENNIS, «p. wow. 



? . — Entirely black or brown-black; head and abdomen shining; thorax 

 clothed with a short, dense, velvety -black or brown pubescence; legs gen- 

 erally brown, with sericeous pubescence on tibia?.; inclosed space behind 

 postscutellum coarsely rugose; metathorax coarsely punctured; wings yel- 

 ■ lowish-hyaline, with apical margins broadly fuliginous; abdomen depressed 

 above, with little or no pubescence, finely punctured; base deeply exca- 

 vated. Length, 8 lines. 



