This paper is concerned with the measure of noncompactness in the spaces of continuous functions and semilinear functional differential equations with nonlocal conditions in Banach spaces. The relationship between the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness of intersections and the modulus of equicontinuity is studied for some subsets related to the semigroup of linear operators in Banach spaces. The existence of mild solutions is obtained for a class of nonlocal semilinear functional differential equations without the assumption of compactness or equicontinuity on the associated semigroups of linear operators.