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Noiiiia oxybeloides Smith. 



Mr. Comber took this at Sigiri (March, 1910), Salsette and 

 Karachi. In the females the first r. n. meets the second t. c, 

 the enlarged tegulas are orange-fulvous, and the mesothorax 

 has scattered very strong punctures on a shining ground. 

 In the male the first r. n. joins the second s. m. near its end, 

 the tegulse vary to pale ochreous, and the mesothorax is 

 finely, quite closely punctured. Nevertheless, they appear 

 certainly to belong together, and Smith also had them asso- 

 ciated ; I have a male from F. Smith's collection, while the 

 female has been compared with Smith's type by Mr. Meade- 

 Waldo. A^. alie^ia Cameron is evidently closely allied. 



Nouiia mag'rettii euecta n. subsp. — Smaller, length 6 mm. or 

 a little over. The female agrees with Gribodo's description of mag- 

 rettii except as follows; tegument of legs entirely dark, with at most 

 faint brownish tints ; the shining very sparsely punctured mesothorax 

 practically nude, except for a narrow band of pale ochreous tomen- 

 tum along anterior margin ; vertical part of first abdominal segment 

 scarcely hairy ; hair on inner side of tarsi yellowish, but very pale. 

 The male has the mesothorax much more closely punctured than the 

 female ; face covered with pure white hair ; flagellum bright fulvo- 

 ferruginous beneath ; scutellum with a short spine at each posterior 

 corner ; hind femora only moderately thickened, but with a subapical 

 hump above ; underside of hind femora with long white hairs, spatu- 

 late at end ; hind tibia pale yellow with a large black median patch, 

 the flattened broadly rounded pale yellow apical lamella not very long, 

 not nearly reaching middle of basitarsus ; tarsi pale yellow, with the 

 apical joint of anterior and middle pair, and all the small joints of hind 

 pair, black ; middle tarsi long, the last joint long-oval ; hind margins 

 of abdominal segments testaceous. 



Habitat. — Karachi, N. W. India {E. Comber). One of each 

 sex. British Museum. This is perhaps a distinct species, 

 but it is so near to A^. magrettii that I describe it as a sub- 

 species. N. savignyi Kohl is also allied, but considerably 

 larger. Among the Indian species this is near to N. oxybel- 

 oidcs, differing in the smaller size, much smaller hind tibial 

 lamella of male, cream-colored tegulae of female, etc. The 

 first r. n. meets the second t. c, or even enters the corner of 

 the third s. m. The female is without the scutellar spines. 



Noiiiia albolobata n. sp.— Length about or nearly 6i mm. ; 

 black, with rather abundant pale ochreous and white tomentum ; head 



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