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Hernia longitarsis Cockerell. 
Nomia longitarsis Cockerell, Entomologist 49 (1916) 158. 
The type is a male. The female (Mount Maquiling) is sim- 
ilar, with the usual sexual differences, the mesothorax more 
finely punctured, and the abdomen with much shallower and 
more feeble punctures. The stigma in both sexes is ferruginous. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Maquiling (Baker). 
Nomia longitarsis ebons var. nov. 
Male and female. — Stigma black or reddish black; abdominal 
bands (except the first in female) clear opaque ivory color. 
Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya Province, Imugan, male (type) : Ben- 
guet Subprovince, Baguio, female. Both from Baker. Probably 
a subspecies, but without strong characters. 
Ifomia strigata (Fabricius). 
Andrena strigata Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 2 (1793) 311. 
Nomia strigata Lepeletier, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hymen. 2 (1841) 291. 
Nomia iridescens “Smith,” Cockerell, Entomologist 48 (1915) 177 
(not iridescens Smith). 
I had formerly supposed 2 that the male of Nomia iridescens 
differed from the female in having the first five abdominal seg- 
ments with colored bands, but I now find that there are males 
and females with ( strigata ) and without ( iridescens ) the band 
on first segment. Some specimens of N. strigata, as is usual in 
this group of Nomia, have bands which fail to assume the proper 
color, but then these bands are pallid or reddish, tiery different 
from the opaque black hind margin of the first segment in iri- 
descens. It must be stated, however, that strigata and iridescens 
are extremely closely allied, and it is by no means certain that 
they are not forms of a single species. Nomia quadridentata 
Smith is based on a female that is evidently strigata and on a 
male of the N. ellioti group. The first and fullest description is 
that of the female, which is herewith designated as the type. 
Palawan, Puerto Princesa. Mindanao, Davao. Negros, 
Cuernos Mountains. All from Baker. The Philippine insect 
agrees with that from Java (Depok, Pelaboeam, Ratoe, Buiten- 
zorg) , collected by Bryant and Palmer (United States National 
Museum). 
Nomia strigata var. ridleyi (Cockerell). 
Nomia iridescens var. ridleyi Cockerell, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
VIII 5 (1910) 503. 
2 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. VIII 5 (1910) 503. 
