230 HYMENOPTERA. 



at lower end ; legs black with light hair, anterior and middle knees 

 red ; hair on outer side of hind legs glittering silvery ; hind basitarsus 

 broad ; abdomen very broad at base ; first segment evidently punc- 

 tured, second more feebly so, the others hardly at all ; apical plate 

 broadly rounded at end ; venter with silvery hair. Clypeus not keeled. 



i^a(^zV«/.— Karachi, N. W. India {E. Comber). British Mu- 

 seum. In Bingham's table of Indian Nomia this could run 

 near N. nistica or A^. mirata. Nomia rustica Westwood, de- 

 scribed from the male, is perhaps allied, but has dark brown 

 nervures and some other differences probably not due to sex. 

 A^. aurata Bingh. has rufo-testaceous legs and many other 

 distinctive characters. Superficially A^. virgata resembles 

 some species oi Andrena, as A. simulaia Vrow.=^ cariadensis 

 D. T. 



Nomia aiidreiiiiia n. sp.— 9. Length about 10 mm., rather 

 robust, resembling a.n Andrena ; black, with very pale ochreous pubes- 

 cence, that on face grayish, rather dense, the same from side to side ; 

 mandibles black ; clypeus and face minutely granular, the clypeus not 

 keeled ; flagellum short, obscure reddish beneath ; distinctly red at 

 apex ; front dull and granular, but vertex shining, with large separate 

 punctures ; mesothorax and scutellum densel}' and very finely punc- 

 tured ; upper border of prothorax, tubercles, postscutellum and poste- 

 rior margin of mesothorax densely tomentose ; metathorax hairy, ex- 

 cept the narrow basal area, which is finely cross-striate ; tegulae pale 

 testaceous, dark basall}' ; wings dusky, nervures and stigma yellowish- 

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

 than long, the first r. n. joining it about the beginning of its last third ; 

 b. n. strongly arched at lower end, meeting t. m. ; coxs, trochanters 

 and femora very dark brown, the knees a little reddish ; anterior tibiae 

 dark, reddish at apex ; middle tibia red at base and broadly so at 

 apex ; hind tibite entirely red ; tarsi ferruginous, hind basitarsus with 

 a large dark patch on apical half ; hair of legs pale golden ; abdomen 

 broad, dullish, not punctured, hind margins of segments broadly rufo- 

 testaceous ; base broad ; apices of segments with very broad bands of 

 pale ochreous tomentum, reduced to lateral patches on segments 1 and 

 2, entire on 3 and 4 ; apex with bright rufofulvous hair. 



Habitat. — Type from Karachi, N. W. India {E. Comber). 

 British Museum. Another one was taken by Mr. Comber at 

 "Shpali," an abbreviation of the name of some place near 

 Karachi. Very close to A^. aureohirta Cam., but the latter 

 has the clypeus more strongly punctured, the hair of the 

 sides of the face much more dense than on clypeus, the 



