220 HYMENOPTERA. 



Noiiiia curvipes (Fabr.). 



Nasik, Western India, 9 {E. Comber). A male from F. 

 Smith's collection is labelled " India, Nudda." 



Noinia eburnigera n. sp. — cf. Length lOl— 11 mm. ; black, the 

 head and thorax with short sordid-white pubescence, more evidently 

 ocherous on scutellum, dense around borders of mesothorax and scu- 

 tellum, but sparse on disc, the black surface, shining and very densely 

 punctured, clearly visible ; face narrow, eyes converging below ; ton- 

 gue narrow and sharp, but not much over 1 mm. long; basal part 

 of mandibles broadly yellow ; scape slender, yellow, suffused with red 

 above ; flagellum entirely clear ferruginous ; tegulse moderate, light 

 rufotestaceous ; wings hyaline, more or less yellowish, dusky apically ; 

 nervures and stigma light ferruginous; second s. m. broader than 

 usual, receiving first r. n. near its end ; scutellum and postscutellum 

 unarmed ; metathorax hairy ; legs (except coxae and trochanters) pale 

 red broadly marked with canary yellow ; middle femora broadened ; 

 hind femora very greatly swollen, with about the basal two-fifths red, 

 the apical part yellow, the lower side near apex with a strong sharp 

 tooth ; hind tibiae with a long pointed apical process, which has 

 three sharp edges ; the hind tibias are yellow, but on the outer side 

 toward the base, where the femoral tooth overlaps when the leg is 

 flexed, is a large dark brown spot ; hind basitarsus yellow, reddish at 

 end ; abdomen black with a sericeous lustre, shallowly punctured, the 

 hind margins of the first five segments with broad ivory-colored tegu- 

 mentary bands ; sixth segment broadly red at apex, with subbasal dark 

 fuscous hairs ; fifth ventral segment with a pair of median hairy pro- 

 jections ; sixth emarginate. 



9 . Similar, except for the usual sexual differences, and the ab- 

 dominal bands, which are four in number, and a sort of pale orange ; 

 the hair of the thorax above is strongly reddened in three specimens, 

 but in a fourth pallid as in the males. Antennae red ; mandibles broad ; 

 clypeus very densely punctured, not at all keeled ; legs red without 

 yellow; hind basitarsus broad, angular at apex; wings more strongly 

 colored ; apex of abdomen with dark rufofuscous hair ; apical plate 

 with appressed ferruginous hair, but the margins and a fine central 

 line bare. 



Habitat. — Karachi, N. W. India, type (d^), tv^o other males 

 and three females, one of each sex dated " September, 1909 

 {E. Comber)'') Malir, N. W. India, one of each sex {E. 

 Co7nber) . British Museum. 



Resembles N. airvipes, but that species is larger, with 

 denser red hair on thorax above, abdominal bands in male 

 highly colored, with some green, and fourth ventral segment 



