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dense and very white ; hair of thorax and legs white ; legs bright ferru- 

 ginous ; hind femora greatly incrassated, triangular; hind tibiae with 

 a very large broadly rounded lamina, flat above ; abdominal bands on 

 segments 1 to 5, white or creamy white, flushed with green. 



In the Karachi females the tegument of thorax varies to 

 practically all black except the upper border of prothorax, 

 the hind margin and lobes of scutellum, and the postscutel- 

 lar process, v^hich are red ; the abdominal bands also show 

 a little green. The abdomen is rather rougher and more 

 densely punctured in the male, but the difference is not very 

 conspicuous. The hind tibial lamella of the male is not so 

 long as in A^. lamellata Smith, and there is no tooth or promi- 

 nent angle near the middle of the hind margin. N. bahadur 

 Nurse, from Deesa, is also a Crocisaspidia, but has interrupted 

 bands. 



Noiiiia calliclilora n. sp. — 9. Length about 9J mm. ; black, 

 the abdomen with broad bright green bands (the first three flushed 

 with Vermillion) on the first four segments ; postscutellum with two 

 strong black teeth, close together ; middle of face and clypeus with a 

 delicate keel ; mandibles dark red in middle ; flagellum ferruginous 

 beneath. Very close to A^. elliotii Smith, which it resembles in most 

 respects, it is however readily separated as follows (the elliotii used 

 for comparison is from F. Smith's collection): rather smaller; face 

 narrower, covered wirh white hair ; mesothorax smaller, more shining, 

 with smaller punctures, a band of grayish-white hair running along 

 lateral and hind margins, and the disc with much pale hair (dark fus- 

 cous hair in elliotii); hair of outer side of middle tibiae entirely white 

 (with a subapical fuscous patch in elliotii); green abdominal bands 

 about twice as broad. 



//rt'/'Z/rt'^'.— Karachi, N. W. India {E. Comber). British Mu- 

 seum. A male from Karachi appears to belong here, having 

 just the same pubescence and general structure, but it has 

 the scutellum more or less bituberculate, and the abdominal 

 bands are narrow as in elliotii, and very pale. There are 

 bands only on the first four segments, the fourth band being 

 white, while the others are white at the sides and flushed 

 with pale green and red in the middle. The hind legs are 

 formed as in A^. elliotii. I should have referred this male to 

 A^. elliotii in the absence of the female, but I have no au- 

 thentic male elliotii to compare. 



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