226 HYMENOPTERA. 



broad, eyes strongly converging below ; face densely covered with 

 white hair, a little ochreous between antennae ; tongue ver>' sharp but 

 not long ; vertex with pale ochreous hair ; flagellum dull ferruginous 

 beneath ; thorax with hair pale ochreous above, white at sides and 

 beneath ; disc of mesothorax with the surface showing, closely punc- 

 tured but shining ; scutellum slightly bigibbous, shining, with irregu- 

 lar punctures ; postscutellum densely tomentose, unarmed ; area of 

 metathorax reduced to a narrow channel crossed by little ridges ; poste- 

 rior face bare, shining, coarsely punctured, but there is a smooth tri- 

 angle above, corresponding to the apical part of the basal area ; tegulse 

 very large, closely punctured, creamy white with a dark brown basal 

 patch; wings hyaline, stigma light ochreous, nervures darker; first 

 r. n. meeting second t. c, or entering extreme basal corner of third 

 s. in. ; legs very dark brown, with white hair; anterior tibiae ferrugin- 

 ous in front ; anterior and middle tarsi pale yellowish, with the last 

 joint black, the middle tarsi long and slender, with the black joint 

 pear-shaped ; hind femora moderately thickened, with a subapical 

 hump or angle ; hind tibiae with a very large creamy-white lobe ; hind 

 basitarsus creamy-white, the other joints dark brown ; abdominal seg- 

 ments coarsely punctured across the disc, the hind margins broadly 

 smooth ; the segments with much dense tomentum of a pale ochreous 

 color, but the apical half of first segment bare except at sides, and the 

 second to fourth segments with bare bands ; fourth ventral bidentate 

 in middle. 



Habitat. — Hyderabad, N. W. India {E. Comber). There is 

 some resemblance to N. latispina Cam. from Allahabad, but 

 the hind femora are differently shaped, and there are various 

 other differences. The difference in the shape of the hind 

 femora also at once separates A^. albolobata from A^. oxybe- 

 loides ; in the latter the femora are very thick, with the hump 

 or angle near the middle. 



Noniia llavolobata n. sp. — c?. Length about 10 mm. ; similar 

 to N. albolobata, but much larger, and differing also as follows : hair 

 of face pure white throughout ; antenna; entirely ferruginous , scutel- 

 lum dullish, very densely punctured, with erect light brown hairs ; 

 sides of upper part of truncation of metathorax hairy ; apical margin 

 of first abdominal segment hairy right across ; hind femora enormously 

 swollen, triangular in lateral view, with the highest point a little beyond 

 the middle ; expanded lobe of hind tibiae clear primose yellow. In 

 one specimen the metathorax and anterior and middle legs show much 

 ferruginous. Compared with A^. savigtiyi Kohl this species is so simi- 

 lar that on superficial examination they appear exactly the same. N. 

 savignyi is readily separated, however, by the flattened shining (though 



