i-Oi' THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. [EIGHTH SERIES.] No. 72. DECEMBER 1913. LXTTT. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — LV. hy T. D. A. Cocrerell, University of Colorado. Nomia muscosa, Cookerell. This was described from the female ; the male hardly differs in appearance, and has the hind legs very little modified. The hind tibise have white hair on the outer side, and short, shining, purplish-brown hair on the inner, only well seen in an oblique view. The antennae are dark. Males before me are from Mack ay, Queensland, Jan., March, November, 1900 (Turner, 618), and New South Wales (Nat. Mus. Victoria, 71). Nomia hippophila purnongensis, subsp. n. (J .-— Head and thorax olive-green, with coppery tints ; abdomen bright olive-green ; tegulse fulvous (or with a black basal shade), with pallid margins; fiagellum. black above, fulvous beneath except at apex ; hind femora much swollen, metallic green, red at apex ; hind tibiae mainly green. Length about 7 mm. Hub. Purnong, Australia, two (Fulton ; Nat. Mus. Vic-toria, 159, 217). A r . hippophila, Ckll., is closely allied to N. flavoviridis, Ckll., and perhaps to be regarded as a southern subspecies. Males of N. hippophila before me are from "' Windsor, Ann, & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xii. 36
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