Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 7. (Budapest 1909)
Friese, H.: Die Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea
die bienenfauna von neu-guinea. -201 thorax, margins of the scutellum and the sides of the metathorax covered with a dense short ochraceous pubescence, disk of the thorax thinly sprinkled with short black hairs, posterior tibiae obscurely ferruginous, tarsi ferruginous ; legs covered with bright golden-yellow pubescence ; wings subhyaline, nervures ferruginous, tegulae yellow with a fuscous stain in the middle. Abdomen obscurely chalybeous, closely punctured, 2 basal segments strongly so, apical margins of the segments with smooth shining narrow blue fasciae. d". — Closely resembling the but with the legs black, the posterior femora incrassate, tibia? narrow at their base and broadly dilated at their apex, which, as well as the calcaria, are pale testaceous. This species closely resembles a species from N.-China N. chalybeata Westw., from which it is readily distinguished by the form the 4. ventral segment, which is notched in the middle, rounded and then emarginate with the lateral angles rounded ; in the species from China the margin is arched and fringed with fulvous pubescence. The c? of this species is distinguished by having 2 acute spines on the postscutellum.» d" J Key Eilanden und Kalidupa Buton, KÜHN leg. 30. Nomia opulenta SM. 1864. — Nomia opulenta d" SMITH, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. VIII. p. 91 n. 3. « cf . — Nigra ; capite thoraceque punctatis, opacis ; abdomine nitido. segmentis ad marginem apicalem caeruleo-viridibus pulchriter ornatis. Long. 4 lines (= 8 3/4 mm.). d . — Black : face, sides of the thorax and beneath, the metathorax and legs with a cinereous pubescence ; the collar and postscutellum with dense short white pubescence ; the antennae slightly fulvous beneath; the wings subhyaline, their apical margins clouded, the nervures testaceous, tegulae pale testaceous; legs rufo-testaceous. Abdomen smooth, shining, finely and closely punctured ; the apical margins of the segments with fascise of very bright blue-green, changing in different lights ; beneath rufo-testaceous. Morty Island.» This insect so closely resembles the N. concinna from Celebes and Ceram, that I suspect it may be the true d" of that species ; that which 1 have described a* beim/ so is probably a distinct species!
