228 HYMENOPTERA, 



ous beneath, dusky above ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, with 

 fine punctures ; hair of thorax dull, grayish or ochreous tinted, mostly 

 thin and loose, but dense on tubercles and postscutellum ; basal area 

 of metathorax poorly defined, irregularly strigose ; posterior face of 

 metathorax shining, rounded at sides except below, where there are 

 sharp edges ; tegulse pale reddish-testaceous, not enlarged ; wings 

 hyaline, faintly dusky, the large stigma and the nervures light rufo- 

 testaceous ; b. n. falling a little short of t. m. ; second s. m. very nar- 

 row ; receiving first r. n. before the middle ; legs light rufo-testaceous, 

 with long pale hair; anterior femora behind, and middle and hind 

 femora except apically, as well as their coxae, dark brown, but hind 

 trochanters beneath conspicuously pallid rufous ; abdomen shining, 

 with exceedingly feeble and minute punctures ; first segment seen from 

 above a nearly equilateral triangle ; dull white hair-bands at sides of 

 first three segments, and entire on fourth and fifth, and on the apical 

 half scattered pale hair ; venter shining, but a large patch occupying 

 the greater part of disc of fourth segment depressed and dull ; fifth 

 ventral with a shallow median pit. Legs not modified. 



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

 seum. This has some resemblance to A^. parca Kohl, but 

 differs in the color of the legs. The hind tibiae of parcella 

 are very slender basally, gradually narrowing to a broad 

 apex, without the subapical inner projection seen in parca. 



Noiiiia lialictura n. sp. — 9 . Length about 9 mm. or a little over, 

 anterior wing 7 , black, the abdomen with a brownish tint ; head broad, 

 eyes converging below ; face and cheeks with rather thin grayish pubes- 

 cence ; tongue slender but not long ; front striate in middle, smoother 

 and shining at sides ; antennae dark, the fiagellum ferruginous apically ; 

 thorax with grayish pubescence, a little ochreous above dense on tuber- 

 cles, upper border of prothorax and postscutellum ; mesothorax very 

 closely punctured ; scutellum more shining, the discal punctures more 

 separated ; area of metathorax triangular, poorly defined apically, the 

 basal part strongly and closely striate ; posterior truncation with a 

 sharp lateral edge only below ; tegulae not enlarged, reddish clouded 

 with fuscous; wings strongly infuscated ; stigma rather dark reddish, 

 nervures yellowish ; second s. m. about as broad as long, receiving first 

 r. n. in middle ; legs black with coarse pale hair, light yellowish on 

 inner side of tarsi ; outer side of hind tibias with fuscous hair inter- 

 mixed ; abdomen broad in middle narrowed basally, the first segment 

 forming a nearly equilateral triangle ; segments without punctures, 

 their hind margins rufo-testaceous ; first two segments with pale ochre- 

 ous hair-bands at sides only, but on the third and fourth they are 

 entire ; there is also much long loose hair. Marginal cell obtuse at 

 apex, as usual in Noniia. 



