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hair-bands confined to the sides, but the apical tegument 

 reddish ; the anterior femora are red beneath except at base. 



Noniia comberi n. sp. — 9 . Length 8 mm. or rather more; head, 

 thorax and legs black ; abdomen black and ferruginous ; hair of head 

 and thorax pale ochreous-tinted, not abundant; mandibles black; 

 face broad ; face, front and vertex very densely punctured ; clypeus 

 not keeled ; antennae entirely black ; mesothorax and scutellum shin- 

 ing, with small but strong rather dense punctures ; postscutellum un- 

 armed, covered with pale ochreous tomentum ; area of metathorax with 

 widely spaced delicate ridges, and toward its apex with some trans- 

 verse ridges ; tegulae shining black ; wings long, dark fuscous, stigma 

 and nervures brown ; b. n. meeting t. m. ; legs with pale hair; hind 

 basitarsus flattened, with a slight screw-like twist, and with a broad 

 brush of orange hair at apex ; second joint of hind tarsus very broad 

 though short ; abdomen shining, very delicately punctured, first two 

 segments wholly without hair-bands, third and fourth with pale gray- 

 ish bands, end of fifth with dark fuscous hair; first segment broadly 

 red at sides, except along hind margin, the red nearly continuous in 

 the middle line subbasally ; second and third segments red with the 

 apical margin black ; fourth with a suffused red basal patch. 



//rt/?/^rA— Kalutara, Ceylon, 2 9 , March, 1910 {E. Comber). 

 British Museum. Differs from A^. exagens (Walker) by the 

 larger size, black tarsi, dark wings, etc. Compared with 

 N. basipicta Wickwar it is smaller, with differently colored 

 legs and more red on the abdomen. 



Noniia plienacura n. sp. — 9 . Length about 11^ mm. ; appear- 

 ance of an Andreiia, with structure of Noniia (no facial foveffi, etc.); 

 head and thorax black ; legs black except hind tibiae and tarsi, which 

 are clear red, but the basitarsus with a large black patch on outer side; 

 the middle tarsi may also be clear red, and their tibiae reddish apically ; 

 abdomen with the first three segments clear ferruginous red, the others 

 black, the hind margin of the fourth broadly testaceous-hyaline ; head 

 very broad ; clypeus flat, a little depressed in middle, shining, with 

 very large irregularly placed punctures ; face and front finely rugoso- 

 punctate, sides of front more or less ridged or striate ; vertex strongly 

 and densely punctured ; hair of head and thorax pale ochreous tinted, 

 not abundant ; lower margin of clypeus with long golden hairs ; man- 

 dibles dark, deeply grooved on outer side ; antennae black, flagellum 

 reddish at apex ; mesothorax and scutellum densely and minutely 

 punctured, in entire contrast with the large coarse punctures of the 

 vertex; postscutellum unarmed, densely covered with tomentum ; area 

 of metathorax a transverse shining band, with cross-ridges ; tegulae 

 dark with the margin broadly rufotestaceous, not enlarged; wings 



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