222 HYMENOPTERA. 



Noniia karacliieiisis n. sp. — cf . Length about 1\ mm. ; rather 

 slender, black, with the first abdominal segment and the second at 

 base and apex (the infuscation variable) red; anterior and middle 

 tibiae, and apices of their femora above broadly, red ; hind knees red, 

 and hind tibiae broadly reddish at base and narrowly at apex ; tarsi 

 clear red, basal two-thirds of hind basitarsi pellucid whitish ; face 

 densely covered with pale ochreous hair ; tongue very sharply pointed, 

 but short ; maxillary palpi long ; mandibles obscure reddish in middle ; 

 antennae ferruginous, scape infuscated except at ends, flagellum dusky 

 above ; thorax above densely clothed with short ochreous hair, but on 

 discs of mesothorax and scutellum it is thin enough to make visible 

 the very fine dense punctures ; metathorax densely hairy, basal area 

 small ; tegulae moderate, light ferruginous ; wings hyaline, with a dark 

 fuscous apical patch as in A'', terviinata Sm. and A^. kurandina Ckll. ; 

 nervures and the large stigma pale yellowish testaceous ; hind femora 

 not modified ; hind tibise with a prominent subapical tubercle on inner 

 side ; abdomen rather shining, very feebly punctured, hind margins 

 of segments with dense dull creamy-white or pale ochreous-tinted hair- 

 bands ; first two ventral segments red ; fourth nearly covered with a 

 patch of pale ochreous tomentum. 



Habitat. — Karachi, N, W. India {E. Comber). British Mu- 

 seum. Very near to A^. floralis Smith, but hardly its male, 

 owing to the quite different character of the scutellum. 

 Vachal has described the supposed male of A^. floralis from 

 Canton, and while his description indicates a species close 

 to A^. karachiensis, there are various differences. The type 

 locality of floralis is Hong Kong. 

 Noniia aureoliirta Cameron. 



Nasik, Western India, both sexes {E. Comber). British, 

 Museum. This record extends the known range more than 

 500 miles N. W. The female, before known, has the follow- 

 ing distinctive characters : face with a large subtriangular 

 patch of brilliantly shining yellowish hair on each side ; cly- 

 peus and supraclypeal area strongly, very densely punctured, 

 not at all keeled ; mandibles black, faintly reddish in middle ; 

 scape long, black, flagellum obscure reddish beneath ; hair 

 of thorax above fulvous, but not hiding surface of meso- 

 thorax and scutellum, which are densely, minutely, granular- 

 punctate ; pleura hairy in front and bare behind : tibiae and 

 tarsi entirely, and anterior and middle femora broadly at 

 apex, ferruginous ; first two abdominal segments with the 



