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This genus was first described by Mr. Cameron from specimens 

 obtained by me at Ferozepore, which he named M. violaceipennis. I 

 have since obtained the same species both in Kashmir and Baluchistan. 

 The present species is. easily distinguished from M, violaceipennis by 

 being chiefly red, not black. Melanapis is in many respects very close 

 to Andrena, though at first sight it differs greatly from most species 

 of that genus. In my opinion the two genera are barely separable. 



NOMIA BAHADUR, n. sp. 



9 Clypeus finely longitudinally rugose, the sculpture of the re- 

 mainder of head more or less hidden by the pubescence ; mesonotum 

 and scutellum closely and finely punctured, median segment finely 

 rugose, with a very narrow space at its base longitudinally striate ; 

 abdomen almost impunctate, the 1st and 2nd segments only with a 

 few shallow punctures ; clypeus sub-porrect, transverse anteriorly, 

 its margin upturned, and with a median longitudinal carina ; mesono- 

 tum with three parallel impressed lines from the base, not reaching 

 its apex, and two shorter impressed lines parallel with the tegulee ; 

 scutellum large and prominent, more finely and closely punctured in 

 the centre than towards the sides, its posterior lateral angles produced 

 into blunt teeth ; it is produced posteriorly into a kind of plate, which 

 is concave above, its apex deeply triangularly incised, and thus resem- 

 bling the scutellum of the genus Crocisa ; median segment vertical, 

 almost hidden by the scutellum ; apical margins of abdominal segments 

 depressed ; calcaria of intermediate tibise with three or four spines on 

 each side ; outer calcar of posterior tibise long and upcurved, inner 

 calcar pectinated. Black ; flagellum of antennre dark, rufous below ; 

 apical joints of tibise more or less rufo-testaceous ; apical margins of 

 abdominal segments 1 — 4 with pale blueish green interrupted non- 

 pubescent bands, the interruptions becoming successively narrower on 

 each segment towards apex ; calcaria dark rufo-testaceous ; pubescence 

 on head and thorax greyish white, and sparse, longer on the sides of 

 median segment ; on the abdomen there is a little greyish pubescence 

 on the lateral margins of segments ; anal fimbria and pubescence on 

 ventral segments dark fulvous, mixed with some fuscous hairs ; pubes- 

 cence on legs short, greyish outside, dark fulvous inside ; wings hyaline 

 at base, the apical half infuscated, nervures and tegulae rufc-piceous ; the 

 2nd cubital cell receives the 1st recurrent nervurc near its outer angle. 



