2. NOMADA. 119 



the wings subhyaline, and having a fuscous cloud at their apical 

 margins. Abdomen ferruginous, its base black ; the second seg- 

 ment has on each side a large ovate yellow macula, and the fol- 

 lowing segments a yellow line at their basal margins ; the fifth and 

 sixth have sometimes a transverse band ; beneath, the interme- 

 diate segments have sometimes a transverse interrupted yellow line, 

 and the three apical ones a central black dot. E.M. 



In August 1860 I took five specimens of this local insect; it 

 frequented the flowers of the wild scabious (Scabiosa arvensis) in 

 company with Andrena hattorjiana, on which insect it is probably 

 parasitic, as I have since observed them in company. It was first 

 taken in this country, I believe, by Dr. Leach in Devonshire, where 

 it has since been found by Mr. Parfitt near Exeter, and by myself at 

 Woollacombe sands, near Morthoe, North Devon. This is the largest 

 species of Nomada found in this country. 



9. Nomada varia. 



N. atra, scutello sulphureo ; abdomine flavo, basi ferruginea, fasciis 

 quatuor nigris. 



Nomada varia, Panz. Faun. Germ. 55. 20 S • 



Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 152. 



St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 489, tab. 24. fig. 3 $ , 4 <$ . 



Smith, Bees Great Brit. 126 <$ £ ■ 

 Apis varia, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 1 85 ^ . 

 Nomada fucata, Panz. lib. cit. 55. 19 $ . 



Fabr. Syst. Piez. 390. 



Spin. Ins. Ligur. i. 151. 



Schaff. Germ. Zeits. i. 284. 



Sinith, Zool. i. 593. 



Schench, Nass. Bien. 188. 

 Apis fucata, Kirby, Mon. Apum Angl. ii. 195. 

 Normada zonata, St.-Farg. Hym. ii. 491 ? 



Female. Length 4-41 lines. — Black ; the clypeus and a spot above 

 it, the inner orbits of the eyes, the labrum, mandibles, and an- 

 tennae rufous. Thorax — the collar on each side, the tubercles, 

 tegulae, and scutellum sulphur-yellow ; sometimes a minute dot 

 on the postscutellum ; wings testaceo- hyaline, very faintly clouded 

 at their margins, the nervures ferruginous ; legs rufous, the coxae, 

 the intermediate and posterior trochanters, and the extreme base 

 of the femora beneath black. Abdomen — the basal segment fer- 

 ruginous, the rest yellow ; the extreme base and apical margin of 

 the first and the apical margins of the three following segments 

 black. B.M. 



Yar. ft. The apical margin of the basal segment rufo-piceous. 



Yar. y. The second segment ferruginous in the middle. 



Mcde. Length 4-4| lines. — Head and thorax black ; the scape in 

 front, the clypeus and a spot above it, the face on each side, the 

 labrum, and mandibles yellow, the latter rufo-piceous at their apex ; 



