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rugoso-punctate, eyes strongly converging below ; sides of face, adjacent 

 to the eyes, with very broad bands of white tomentum, but clypeus and 

 middle of face without this tomentum ; anterior margin of clypeus 

 with some shining pale golden hairs ; mandibles faintly reddish in the 

 middle ; flagellum obscure ferruginous beneath ; tubercles covered 

 with white tomentum ; pleura with white hair, not entirely concealing 

 the surface ; mesothorax and scutellum bare, with very large punc- 

 tures ; post-scutellum entirely covered with white tomentum ; meta- 

 thorax with large punctures, its basal area reduced almost to nothing ; 

 tegula? very large (about three-quarters the length of mesothorax), 

 being broadly produced backwards, light fulvous, dark only about the 

 base of attachment ; wings slightly dusky, stigma rufous, nervures 

 dark, second submarginal cell rather large ; legs very dark reddish, 

 with white hair, that on inner side of basal joint of hind tarsi very pale 

 orange ; abdomen with a thin white pubescence, but no distinct hair- 

 bands, but on each side of the first segment is a very conspicuous patch 

 of white tomentum. 



Hab. Sydney; F. Smith collection, 79. 22. The numbers 

 cited are the accession-numbers of the British Museum. Readily 

 known by the large tegula? and bandless abdomen. 



Nomia rufocognita, n. sp. (or generosa, var. ?). 

 $ . Length about 9 mm. ; black, the tibia? and tarsi bright ferru- 

 ginous, the tibia? with a blackish spot in front ; head broad ; face 

 covered with fulvous tomentum, occiput with fulvous hair ; mandibles 

 simple, curved and very sharp, ferruginous, blackened at the apex ; 

 labrum ferruginous ; antenna? very long, wholly dark, flagellum 

 crenulated, the apical part very strongly ; hair of thorax fulvous, 

 tubercles covered with tomentum, as also the post-scutellum, but on 

 the latter it is white ; mesothorax and scutellum with strong close 

 punctures of moderate size ; tegulse ordinary, bright ferruginous, the 

 margins subhyaline ; wings rather yellowish, ample, stigma and ner- 

 vures dark reddish brown, second submarginal cell much higher than 

 broad ; legs with thin fulvous hair ; hind legs scarcely deformed, their 

 femora rather stout, their tibia? flattened, the posterior edge convex, 

 the anterior concave ; abdomen strongly and very densely punctured, 

 with fulvous pubescence, the hind margins of the segments whitish 

 hyaline (those of the second and third very broadly so), and having 

 thin bands of fulvous hair ; venter simple. 



Hab. Queensland, 94. 61 ;. also marked 312, and what looks 

 likeHy. Closely allied to N. generosa, Sm., but distinguished 

 by the fulvous pubescence ; it may possibly be only a variety. 

 The scutellum is bigibbose. 



Nomia tenuihirta, n. sp. 



$ . Length about 8 mm. ; black, even to the tarsi, the flagellum 

 obscure brownish beneath ; front rugoso-punctate ; face covered with 

 white tomentum, except the anterior part of clypeus, and a median 

 longitudinal band below the antenna?, m the middle of which is a 

 raised shining line; mandibles black; last antennal joint with an 



