ANDEEKA. — IfOMIA. 



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segments above covered with black, the 3rd and following abdo- 

 minal segments with ferruginous-red pubescence ; the antennu) 

 piceous ; the apical four joints of the tarsi without pubescence, 

 testaceous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures and tegulaj 

 dark brown. 



Hah. Eangit Valley, Sikhim, 1000 feet. $ . Lenc/th 14 ; &r/j. 

 20 mm. Type in coll. British Museum. 



Genus NOMIA. 



Nomia, Latr. Hist. Nat. Ins. xiii, p. 369 (1805). 



Tvpe, N. curvipes, Fabr. 

 Range. Both hemispheres. 



Head transverse, clypeus not produced as in Halictm; eyea 

 more or less convergent beneath ; ocelli arranged in a curve ou 

 the vertex; antenna) filiform, geniculated ; mandibles grooved 

 above, the apex with two teeth, the inner very much shorter than 

 the outer ; labial palpi 4-jointed, the tongue short trifid and 

 plumed ; maxillary palpi 6-jointed, the joints subclavate, the 

 apical lobe of the maxilla very short, very much shorter than the 

 basilar portion. Thorax subglobose ; median segment very short, 

 depressed, generally vertical, a narrow space at base usually 



differently sculptured from the rest 

 of the segment, very often depressed, 

 concave ; legs stout, each posterior 

 femur (in females) with a floccus of 

 long hairs, and the tibiae densely 

 ]Hibescent ; in the male the posterior 

 femora and tibiae, with a few excep- 

 tions, more or less thickened, the 

 inner apical angle of the tibia) 

 produced, often remarkably. Wings 

 short and broad, the radial cell in 

 the fore wing rounded at apex, the 

 apex closely approximate to the 

 costal margin; three cubital cells, 

 the 3rd the longest, the 2nd gene- 

 rally square, receiving the 1st 

 recurrent nervure past the middle, 

 the 3rd cubital cell strongly con- 

 stricted towards the marginal cell, 

 at top about one-third as wide as at bottom, receiving the 2nd 

 recurrent nervure past the middle. Abdomen broad, as broad as 

 the thorax, often broader, oval, elliptical, or with the basal segment 

 sometimes narrowed. 



The species of this genus that I have observed make their nests 

 in the hard earth of banks, sometimes on the flat ground beneath 

 the pile-raised houses in Burma, storing pollen as food for their 

 larvae ; the pollen, as I have often noticed, ia carried on the hairy 

 posterior femora and tibiae. 



1 ^ 3 



Fig. 141. — Nomia. 1, maxilla; 

 2, mandible; 3, labium. (Much 

 enlarged.) 



