AKABIAN HYMENOPTERA. 43 



Genus NOMIA, Latr. 

 S07. NoMiA CRAssiPES. Eucera crassipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 

 2T8. 

 Rafla. 

 Inhabits Hindostan. 



208. NoMiA OxTBELOiDES, Westvo. MSS 

 Tajura. 



Inhabits Hindostan. 



209. NoMiA TEOULATA, Westw. MSS. 



Inhabits Natal and Sierra Leone. A variable species. 



210. NoMiA zoNARiA. Male. — Black, stout. Head and sides of 

 the thorax with silvery whitish hairs. Antennae red beneath and at 

 the tips ; first joint red. Thorax with cinereous pubescence. 

 Abdomen with five white bands, which have a yellowish tinge in the 

 middle. Legs tawny, thick ; femora and tibiae with white tomentum 

 on the outside. Wings cinereous, broadly blackish along the exterior 

 border ; veins black, stigma piceous. Length of the body 6 lines. 



The thin forked edge which forms the hind border of the scutellum 

 distinguishes this and the following species from the other Nomise. 



Harkeko. 



211. NoMiA VESPOiDEs. Male. — Black. Head and thorax with 

 cinereous pubescence. Antennae and disk of the scutellum red. 

 Abdomen dark red, with three black bands and with three pale 

 luteous bands, which are white at each end. Legs tawny, thick. 

 Wings lurid, broadly blackish along the exterior border ; veins black ; 

 stigma piceous. Length of the body 6^ lines. 



Massowah. 



212. NoMiA BicoLORiPES. Female. — ^Black. Head and thorax 

 with cinereous pubescence. Antennae dark red beneath. Hind 

 borders of the abdominal segments lurid, with whitish tomentum, 

 Legs tawny ; four anterior femora and tibiae black. Wings cinereous, 

 broadly blackish along the exterior border ; veins and stigma black. 

 Length of the body 4 lines. 



The bands of the abdomen are rather narrower than those of N. 

 fulvohirta, a native of Sierra Leone. 



Massowah. 



