484 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and LX. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — XLVIt. By T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado. Ceratina lata, Spiuola. Trinidad, March 1912 {Hugh Scott). New to Trinidad. Ceratina minima, Friese. Trinidad, March 22, 1912 {Hugh Scott). Three males, marked " Diego Martin ; herbage by stream." Nomada [Micronomada) jamaicensis, sp. n. ? . Length a little over 6 mm. Ferruginons, including the legs, biit the al)domen mainly black above ; head Inroad ; basal part of mandibles broadly-pale yellow ; sides of iface broadly light yellow, this colour ending obtusely a little above level of middle of front, and below ending about level of middle of clypeus; labrum blackish in middle ; clypeus, supraclypeal area, front and cheeks bright ferruginous, the cheeks witli a broad yellow stripe along npper part of orbits ; interocellar region blackened ; antennae entirely ferruginous, third joint longer than fourth ; thorax above densely and coarsely pimctured, the ridges between the punctures shining ; npper border of prothorax, tubercles, scutellum, band on postscutellum, two large patches on metathorax, and very large transverse patches on pleura, bright yellow ; mesothorax suffused with black in middle posteriorly, and area of metathorax also blackish ; the extremely scanty pubescence of thorax light fulvous above, white at sides ; tegulae creamy white, punc-tured. Wings long, with a conspicuous dusky apical cloud ; stigma ferruginous, nervures fuscous ; b. n. meeting t.-m. ; second s.m. receiving first r. n. before middle. Legs bright red, hind coxae with a large yellow mark, hind tibise slightly yellowish at base ; spines of anterior cox£e short, but very-distinct. Abdomen very finely punctured : first segment with a broad yellow band, narrowest in middle, the part before the band dark red ; second segment with a yellow band which is extremely Ijroad at sides, but greatly narrowed, . or even broken, in middle ; third and fourth segments with a large yellow mark on each side, fifth with a band (these markings often largely concealed by the retraction of the segments) ; apical segment with a semicircular pale pubes-cent area ; venter dark ferruginous, with a broad yellow band on third segment,
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