Reprinted from: Cockerell,T.A. 1910. Some bees of the genus Nomada from Washington state. Psyche. 17:95
?. Length 81/ mm.; head and thorax coarsely rugosopunctate, with scanty
white (yellowish dorsally) hair; black, with the following parts dark
red, face below antennm except a broad black band extending from
each antenna to clypeal margin, mandibles (which are stout and
blunt, but entire) entirely, labrum, posterior orbits extremely narrowly,
a large triangular mark above each eye, a large V-shaped
mark on each side of mesothorax, the greater part of the extremely
prominent and strongly bilobed scutellum, upper border of prothorax,
tubercles, and a very large patch on pleura; antennae thick, third joint
shorter than fourth, scape red in front, flagellum dark red suffused
with dusky; tegule very bright ferruginous, strongly punctured;
wings very dark on apical margin, stigna and nervures dark reddish;
b. n. going a moderate distance basad of t. m.; second s. mo
large, receiving first r. n. at middle; legs red, the femora with much
black, the edges of the black suffused; abdomen broad, dark red, black
at base of first segment trilobed, apical margin of first two segments
strongly blackened; apical half of abdomen darker, with minute scattered
glittering hairs; sides of second segment with a round suffused
yellow spot; fourth segment with a pair of subdorsal yellow spots.
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