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9. Abdomen clavate; males 10. 
Abdomen not clavate 11. 
10. Abdomen red at base mediorufa morata subsp. nov. 
Abdomen black at base elongata Friese. 
11. Abdomen red at base; females mediorufa morata subsp. nov. 
Abdomen black at base 12. 
12. Scutellum with fulvous tomentum; males., scutellata remolita subsp. nov. 
Scutellum without fulvous tomentum 13. 
13. Larger; wings strongly infuscated apically incensa sp. nov. 
Smaller; wings little darkened apically (Puerto Princesa, Palawan). 
palavanica Cockerell. 
Nomia pachypoda sp. nov. 
Male. — Length, about 7 millimeters ; robust, black with broad 
abdomen; eyes strongly converging below; tongue long and 
slender; maxillary palpi with basal joints dark, apical ones pale 
fulvous; mandibles pale, somewhat reddish; labrum black; face 
densely covered with ocherous hair; front dull; scape with long 
outstanding hair; flagellum bright ferruginous beneath; meso- 
thorax, scutellum, and postscutellum densely covered with felt- 
like fulvous hair ; postscutellum unarmed ; pleura and metathorax 
with long ocherous hair; basal area of metathorax very small, 
minutely granular; tegulse fulvous, rather large but ordinary; 
wings dusky, stigma (which is small and short) and nervures 
pale dusky reddish; basal nervure strongly arched; second sub- 
marginal cell parrow, receiving the first recurrent nervure 
beyond the middle ; legs mainly black, with pale ocherous 
hair, but anterior and middle knees, and anterior tibiae at 
apex, ferruginous; all the tarsi pale yellow, slightly reddish, 
with the last joint black, abruptly contrasting; hind femora 
enormously swollen, helmet-shaped, the basal slope above shin- 
ing, the apex broadly reddish creamy ; hind tibiae pallid at base, 
and gibbous on outer side near base, with a pair of small black 
tubercles; abdomen finely rugose-punctate; first segment with 
erect ocherous hair; second and following segments with ocher- 
ous hair bands; sixth and seventh appearing entirely pallid; 
fourth ventral segment broadly emarginate, keeled in the middle. 
Singapore ( Baker 9982), type; also one from Penang ( Baker 
9981). 
Nomia subpurpurea sp. nov. 
Female. — General appearance and color of abdominal bands 
(emerald green tinged with vermilion) as in N. iridescens rhodo- 
chlora Ckll. ; first and second abdominal segments metallic as 
in typical iridescens. The face is longer in proportion to its 
breadth than in true iridescens. It is readily known from both 
iridescens proper and rhodochlora by the larger, flattened 
