224 HYMENOPTERA. 



ample, yellowish hyaline, the apical field somewhat dusky ; stigma and 

 nervures orange-ferruginous; b. n. strongly covered at lower end; 

 second s. m. a little broader than long, receiving r. n. in middle ; 

 legs with pale yellowish hair, scopa of hind legs long and loose ; ab- 

 domen dullish, without any evident punctures; bands of extremely 

 short hair at sides of second and third segments, and a continuous 

 one on fourth ; fifth and apex with pale orange-ferruginous hair ; api- 

 cal plate broad. 



Habitat. — Nasik, Western India, 2 9 {E. Comber). British 

 Museum. A very distinct species, unlike any No7nia known 

 to me, but extremely like some Andrena, such as A. erythro- 

 gastra (Ashmead). In Bingham's table it runs nearest to 

 A^. floralis, to which it has little resemblance, 



Noiiiia plienacopsis n. sp. — 9. Length fully 12 mm.; black, 

 the hind margins of the abdominal segments testaceous-hyaline, and 

 the parts over which they slide reddish-brown ; apical part of middle 

 tibiae, hind tibiae entirely, and all the tarsi, ferruginous; wings shorter 

 than abdomen, the latter being long and rather narrow, but extended 

 more than usual in the type; face very broad, finely and densely 

 granular-punctate; mandibles black, apical part faintly reddish ; fia- 

 gellum red at apex, and slightly so beneath toward base ; vertex with 

 large punctures on a shining ground ; hair of head and thorax long 

 and loose, except the usual tomentum on postscutellum, tubercles, etc., 

 and pale ochreous-tinted ; mesothorax with strong punctures on a 

 shining ground, smaller than those of vertex, but not conspicuously 

 different ; scutellum more densely punctured ; postscutellum unarmed ; 

 basal area of metathorax irregularly subcancellate ; tegulae dark brown 

 with a pale margin, not enlarged; anterior wings about or nearly 9 

 mm. long, yellowish-hyaline, a little dusky apically ; stigma and ner- 

 vures light ferruginous; b. n. meeting t. m. ; second s. m. broader 

 than long, receiving first r. n. near the beginning of its last third ; legs 

 with abundant pale orange hair ; apical part of hind basitarsus dark- 

 ened ; second joint of hind tarsus triangular ; abdomen with the discs 

 of the segments dullish, with only scattered piliferous punctures ; hair- 

 bands white, poorly developed, overlapped by long slightly yellowish 

 hairs, band on second segment confined to sides ; hair of apex fulv- 

 ous; ventral segments with fringes of long yellowish hair, which col- 

 lect pollen. 



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

 seum. An Andrena-like species, structurally very close to 

 A^. phenacura, but separated by the black abdomen, the much 

 more coarsely punctured mesothorax, etc. 



