xv, i Cockerell: Philippine Bees of the Genus Nomia 5 
Mindanao, Davao ( Baker 7h68). Described from Singapore 
and also collected by Bryant and Palmer in Java (Buitenzorg, 
March, 1909; Depok). It is a color variety, doubtless alter- 
nating in Mendelian fashion with the typical form. 
Nomia iridescens Smith. 
Nomia iridescens Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. 2 
(1857) 43. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Banos and Mount Maquiling. 
Mindanao, Butuan and Davao. All from Baker. I have a fe- 
male from F. Smith’s collection, and the Philippine form agrees 
with it. 
Nomia iridescens var. rhodochlora var. nov. 
Male and female . — Abdominal bands bright yellowish green, 
suffused with vermilion. 
Mindanao, Dapitan ( Baker 7A66), male. Negros, Cuernos 
Mountains {Baker) , female. The type locality is Dapitan. 
Nomia lusoria sp. nov. 
Male . — Like N. strigata ridleyi, but with third (as well as 
following) antennal joints clear red beneath; hind femora 
swollen, the upper side strongly convex; hind tibiae greatly en- 
larged apically, the end reddish yellow, the inner side flattened 
and expanded apically, its margin broadly rounded and ex- 
panded; hind basitarsi pale reddish dusky apically. 
Palawan, Puerto Princesa (from Baker). 
Nomia elongatnla Cockerell. 
Nomia elongatula Cockerell, Entomologist 43 (1915) 178. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Banos (type locality) and Mount 
Maquiling: Benguet Subprovince, Baguio. Leyte, Tacloban. 
Mindanao, Iligan. Palawan, Puerto Princesa. All from 
Baker. 
Nomia ievieanda sp. nov. 
Nomia elongata “Friese,” Cockerell, Entomologist 48 (1915) 178 
(not N. elongata Friese). 
Finding that this group of Nomia included several distinct 
species, recognizable by the characters of the male abdomen, I 
was led to reexamine the species from Luzon which Friese had 
identified with his N. elongata, described from Java. Evidently 
the Philippine species is distinct, for although Friese’s descrip- 
tion of the male is brief, he states that the fifth ventral abdom- 
inal segment is bare, whereas in our insect it is hairy right 
