﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xlii. 
  (1898), 
  No. 
  11. 
  71 
  

  

  NOMIA 
  MACULITARSIS, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  (PI. 
  4, 
  f 
  12.) 
  

  

  Long. 
  8 
  mm. 
  $. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Poona 
  ( 
  WrougJiton). 
  

  

  Agrees 
  with 
  N. 
  floralis 
  Sm. 
  and 
  N. 
  pilipes 
  Sm. 
  in 
  

   having 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  red 
  ; 
  only 
  the 
  females 
  of 
  

   these 
  two 
  species 
  are 
  known, 
  but 
  it 
  can 
  hardly 
  be 
  the 
  $ 
  of 
  

   either 
  of 
  them. 
  It 
  comes 
  nearest 
  in 
  those 
  characters 
  

   common 
  to 
  both 
  sexes 
  to 
  N. 
  floralis, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  may 
  

   be 
  separated 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Median 
  segment 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  vertical 
  keel, 
  the 
  area 
  

   at 
  base 
  densely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  legs 
  rufo-piceous. 
  

  

  JV. 
  floralis 
  Sm. 
  

  

  Median 
  segment 
  without 
  a 
  median 
  vertical 
  keel, 
  the 
  

   basal 
  area 
  distinctly 
  striolated 
  ; 
  the 
  legs 
  black, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  

   rufous. 
  N. 
  maculitarsis. 
  

  

  N. 
  pilipes 
  Sm. 
  has 
  the 
  basal 
  two 
  and 
  the 
  basal 
  two- 
  

   thirds 
  of 
  the 
  third 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  pale-red, 
  and 
  the 
  

   basal 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  is 
  " 
  very 
  coarsely 
  

   punctured." 
  

  

  The 
  head 
  in 
  front 
  from 
  shortly 
  below 
  the 
  ocelli 
  

   densely 
  covered 
  with 
  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  vertex 
  

   shining, 
  impunctate. 
  Mandibles 
  black, 
  striated 
  ; 
  the 
  striae 
  

   curved 
  at 
  the 
  top. 
  The 
  propleurse 
  shining, 
  impunctate, 
  

   the 
  apex 
  only 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   and 
  meta-pleuras 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  white 
  hair. 
  

   Wings 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  costa, 
  stigma, 
  and 
  nervures 
  pale 
  

   fuscous 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  not 
  half 
  the 
  

   length 
  of 
  the 
  third 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  

   is 
  received 
  shortly 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  cellule. 
  

   Abdomen 
  shining, 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  covered 
  with 
  

   white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  segment 
  entirely 
  red, 
  closely 
  and 
  

   finely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  rufous, 
  

   the 
  rest 
  of 
  it 
  piceous 
  ; 
  the 
  apices 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  and 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  segments 
  smooth, 
  silvery 
  white 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface 
  

   entirely 
  red. 
  Legs 
  black, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  pale 
  rufous, 
  the 
  hinder 
  

  

  