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deeply emarginate. The structure of the hind legs is similar 

 in both, though the tibial process is smaller and shorter in 

 curvipes. N. unidentata Olivier, from the Arabian desert, 

 seems to be allied, but judging from the description is 

 smaller, and the legs of the male are without yellow. 

 Noniia sykesiana Westwood. 



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

 to me to be Westwood's species, which is separable from 

 A'', antemiata Smith by the smaller size, and broad white 

 (slightly creamy) hair-bands on abdomen. The face is 

 densely covered with brownish-white hair, 'which is not quite 

 as Westwood describes, but his specimens was probably not 

 in the bes't condition. The broad and flat last antennal joint 

 is black. The large apical process of the hind tibia is broadly 

 truncate, with two salient points. Tongue linear but short. 



Noiiiia iiasicaua n. sp.— 9 . Length about 9t mm. ; black, in- 

 cluding the legs, but the first two abdominal segments clear bright 

 ferruginous, and segments 1 to 4 each with a narrow apical white 

 tegumentary band, that on the first very narrow ; face broad, densely 

 covered with glistening white hair; mandibles black with a small and 

 very obscure reddish spot; front dullish; flagellum ferruginous be- 

 neath, and the last joint above ; mesothorax shining, rather closely 

 punctured, with thin short pale hair, denser along the margins, and 

 scattered dark hairs on the disc ; scutellum very shiny, the middle 

 almost without punctures, with long black hair ; postscutellum covered 

 with white tomentum, unarmed ; area of metathorax rather large, 

 very black, minutely rugose, becoming obliquely striate at sides; 

 tegulae translucent testaceous, not enlarged ; wings hyaline, faintly 

 dusky, stigma piceous, nervures dark brown ; second s. m. small, 

 receiving first r. n. just beyond middle ; b. n. strongly arched ; legs 

 with glittering white hair, pale golden on inner side of tarsi ; some 

 dark fuscous hair on outer side of hind tibia at base ; abdomen with 

 little hair, but third and fourth segments with a very narrow even 

 basal band of white hair : hair at apex dark fuscous ; first four ventral 

 segments red. 



Habitat. — Nasik, Western India {E. Comber). British Mu- 

 seum. Very close to A^. manilitarsis Cam., from Poona, of 

 which only the male is known. I do not think nasicana is 

 the female of maculitarsis, as the latter has the face covered 

 with fulvous hair. Cameron's figure of maculitarsis appears 

 to have been drawn from the female of something else. 



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