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Philippine Journal of Science 
1920 
Halictus thoracicus merescens Cockerell. 
Ealictus mcgregori Cockerell. 
Nomia thoracica stantoni ( Ashmead) . 
Fourteen specimens. 
Nomia longitarsis Cockerell. 
One female. The specimen has opaque pale yellowish bands 
on abdominal segments 1 to 4, and the stigma ferruginous. It 
thus differs both from the type and variety eboris, and possibly 
represents a distinct race. 
Nomia levicauda Cockerell. 
Two females. * 
Nomia quadrifasciata Ashmead. 
Five males and twenty-seven females. Three of the five males 
are typical N. quadrifasciata; the other two have more dusky 
hind legs and approach var. notha (Cockerell). It is certain 
that notha is only a variation of N. quadrifasciata. 
Nomia iridescens Smith. 
One female. On Melastoma polyanthum Blume, May 27. 
Nomia strigata (Fabricius) var. ridleyi Cockerell. 
One female. 
Nomia mcgregori sp. nov. 
Female. — Related to N. qundrifasciata, but larger and more 
robust (anterior wing, 8 millimeters; width of thorax, about 4 
millimeters) ; the blue-green bands on hind margins of abdom- 
inal segments 2 to 4 very narrow (hardly or not half as wide as 
in quadrifasciata) ; lobes of postscutellar process large, broad and 
obtuse ; tegulse entirely black ; prothorax and tubercles with black 
hair, but conspicuously fringed with white tomentum ; mesothorax 
with strong dense punctures (not of two sizes as in N. incerta), 
and with very short black hair, with a little intermixture of 
white, especially at sides; wings very strongly blackened, the 
stigma and nervures black ; scutellum between the large scattered 
punctures dull; hind tibise with much black hair posteriorly; 
middle tibiae beneath, and their femora beneath at base, with 
shining red hair. 
One female. By the form of the postscutellar process related 
to N. incerta Gribodo, from Java, but the mesothorax is different. 
