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on the disk, and the fascia on the fourth segment is more or less inter¬ 
rupted on the disk and on each side, so that sometimes the fascia is 
broken into four spots, two on each side; the sixth segment has a 
transverse yellow spot, and the anus is black and slightly bifid at tip; 
beneath piceous, with the second and third segments handed with yel¬ 
low ; an obsolete yellowish line on the fourth segment and sometimes 
a minute yellowish spot on the disk of the fifth segment. Length 
4 —41 lines. 
Hah. Connecticut and New York. Two 9 a,nd two % specimens. 
Collection of Mr. Edward Norton. 
In this species the yellow fasciae on the fourth and fifth abdominal 
segments are indented on each side -posteriorly.^ and not anteriorly., as 
in electa and placida. 
11. N. proxima n. sp. 
Male. Head black, thickly clothed with pale hairs; anterior mar¬ 
gin of the clypeus, labrum, mandibles, except tips, and the sides of the 
face near the base of the mandibles, yellow. Antennae above black, 
beneath rufo-piceous. Thorax black, thickly clothed with pale hairs; 
tegulae and tubercles piceous. Wings hyaline, apical margins fuscous; 
nervures piceous. Legs piceous; femora blackish above. Abdomen 
black, tinged with piceous towards the apex; first segment above entirely 
black ; anterior margin of the second segment on each side with a large 
cuneiform yellow macula pointed within ; a narrow, uneven, transverse, 
yellow line on each side of the third segment anteriorly; an inter¬ 
rupted, transverse, yellow line on the fourth segment, and on the fifth 
a yellow fascia obsoletely margined posteriorly with ferruginous; anus 
piceous, tipped with blackish, with the apex subtruncate; beneath 
blackish-piceous, the second, third and fourth segments obsoletely 
banded with yellowish. Length 4i lines. 
Hah. Maine. One % specimen. Collection of Mr. E. Norton. 
Allied to vicina., and differs, principally, from that species by the 
greater expanse of the wings (9 lines) which is one line more than that 
of the largest female of vlcina^ whose length of body is one line longer 
than that of proxima. 
12. N. fervida Smith. 
Nomada fervida Smith, Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. ii, p. 247, 9* 
“ Female. Length 4—5 lines.—Black, the sides of the face, the 
