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Habitat. — Nasik, Western India {E. Comber, 23). British 

 Museum. Very near to N. parcella, but evidently not its 

 female, from the much larger size, darker wings, and much 

 broader second s. m., as well as the darker tegulae, and dull, 

 more coarsely punctured mesothorax. It looks exactly like 

 an Halictus. The Australian A^. halictella Ckll. is very simi- 

 lar, but has the base of the abdomen much broader. 



Noiiiia niirsci seinitbrtis n. subsp. — c? . Agrees with Cameron's 

 description of A'', nursei except as follows : flagellum broadly light 

 yellowish beneath, above broadly black ; cross-ridges of metathoracic 

 enclosure practically uniform ; posterior face of metathorax shining, 

 rugose with a linear median sulcus ; abdominal hair-bands light ochre- 

 ous (not gray); hind tibiae with a large rufous patch on outer side. 

 Also very near to A'', fervida Smith, but distinguished by the leg-char- 

 acters mentioned by Cameron for nursei, and also by the shining ver- 

 tex, with large punctures. 



//a<5//rt/.— Karachi, N. W. India {E. Comber). British Mu- 

 seum. This may be no more than an individual variation of 

 A^. 7iursei, but it probably represents a distinct race. From 

 A^. aureo/iirta Cam. it is easily known by its smaller size, the 

 densely punctured surface of mesothorax and scutellum not 

 hidden by tomentum, and the coarsely punctured apical half 

 of the first three abdominal segments. 



Noniia virg'ata n^ sp. — 9. Length about 9 mm.; black, with 

 grayish-white pubescence, which forms broad dense bands on the hind 

 margins of the abdominal segments, interrupted in the middle on the 

 second, and confined to the sides on the first ; the hind margins of the 

 segments also have the tegument pale testaceous ; head broad ; face 

 with grayish-white hair, denser at sides ; lower edge of clypeus with 

 pale golden hairs ; clypeus closely punctured, the punctiires larger on 

 lower part ; front closely and coarsely punctured ; vertex narrow, well 

 punctured ; scape long ; flagellum short, ferruginous beneath ; meso- 

 thorax and scutellum very closely punctured, the punctures much 

 smaller than those on front ; broad upper surface of prothorax, tuber- 

 cles, postscutellum, posterior margin of mesothorax broadly, and a line 

 along anterior border of scutellum, covered with felt-like tomentum; 

 area of metathorax with feeble ridges, the apical triangle cut off by a 

 sharp transverse ridge ; tegulae pale testaceous in front, dark rufous 

 behind ; wings dusky, the comparatively small stigma and the nervures 

 dull testaceous; marginal cell very obtuse at end; second s. m. 

 broader than long, receiving first r. n. near its end; b. n. arched only 



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