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of abdomen shining, somewhat sericeous, the first segment with 

 evident but excessively minute punctures ; hind margins of segments 

 broadly translucent reddish, covered by dense white hair-bands, 

 which in the type are largely abraded in the middle ; fourth ventral 

 segment remarkable for a covering of fine tomentum, which in the 

 middle is orange-fulvous ; apex of abdomen beneath with fulvous 

 hair. 



Hah. Nasik, India (£. Co7»,6er). British Museum. A species 

 of the group of A'', parca, Kohl, allied to the Indian N. parcella, 

 Ckll., and halictnra, Ckll. From parcella it is known by the 

 larger size, and details of the legs and wings. It cannot well be 

 the undescribed male of N. halichira, owing to the differences in 

 venation, &c. ; or, at least, the differences are such that it seems 

 quite unsafe to assign it to halictura. In Bingham's tables it 

 falls near N. rustica, Westwood, which has subtriangular hind 

 tibiffi. 



Nomia leucoptera, sp. n. 



? . Length 7 mm., anterior wing about 6| ; head and thorax 

 black (metathorax behind, and metapleura, reddish) with greyish- 

 white hair, the fringe on low'er edge of clypeus shining and golden- 

 tinted ; abdomen rufo-fuscous ; tegulas small, translucent testaceous ; 

 wings clear, iridescent, almost milky ; the large stigma and the ner- 

 vures pale testaceous ; legs pale brownish-testaceous, with glittering 

 hair. Head large, transversely oval, facial quadrangle very much 

 broader than long, eyes small, cheeks broad ; mandibles long, brown 

 in middle ; clypeus and front shining, the sides of front obscurely 

 striate ; the microscope shows only piliferous punctures on front and 

 face ; sides of vertex shining, with minute punctures ; scape long, 

 curved, dark brown, fulvous at base ; flagellum clear ferruginous 

 beneath, dusky above ; mesothorax shining, with sparse extremely 

 minute punctures ; scutellum smooth and shining ; postscutellum 

 covered with white felt-like hair ; area of metathorax scarcely defined, 

 very narrow at sides, with slight indications of ridges ; second s. m. 

 square, receiving first r. n. in middle ; third s. m. not nearly as long as 

 first ; hair on inner side of hind tarsi light golden ; abdomen shining, 

 with extremely minute widely separated punctures, the hind margins 

 of segments testaceous, and with thin white hair-bands, obsolete on 

 the first, except at extreme sides, interrupted on the second ; middle 

 of apical segment with appressed golden hair. 



Hah. Karachi, India {E. Comher). British Museum. This 

 looks like another member of the parca group, but it differs 

 greatly from parciformis by its clear wings and much shorter 

 third submarginal cell. From N. parcella, Ckll., it is readily 

 known by the much broader face and paler legs. 



Andrena nursei, n. n. 

 Andrena halictoides, Nurse, Jun., Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. 

 p. 566 (not of Smith) — Peshin. 



