NOMiA. 449 



J*. Abdominal fascife white. 



a^. Enclosed tspace at base of median 

 sei'-ment with a single row of 



coarse pnnctures JV. o.ri/beloides, p. 457. 



b^. Enclosed space at base of median 

 sepment obscurely transversely 



striate iV. rmtica, p. 457. 



c^. Abdominal fascite cinereous. 



a'. Third cubital cell of fore wing less 



than twice length of 2nd N. vincta, p. 458. 



b^. Third cubital cell of fore wing 

 more than twice as long as 2nd. 

 a*. Thorax above with dense rufo- 



fiilvous pubescence N. scutellata, p. 458. 



J*. Thorax above with thin cinereous 



pubescence N. aurata, p. 458. 



C. Abdomen without transverse fasciae. 



a. Clypeus with a medial vertical carina. ... N. terminata, p. 459. 



b. 01y]3eus not carinated N. fuscipennis, p. 459. 



789. Nomia elliotii, Smith, Trans. Ent. 6'oc. 1875, p. 44, $ J ; Dull. 



Torr. Cat. x, p. 166. 



$ . Head and thorax closely and finely punctured, more 



sparsely and coarsely on the seutellum; abdomen smooth, opaque, 



the bases of the segments only punctured ; clypeus flat, carinate 



down the middle, transverse anteriorly ; the seutellum with a more 



or less deep notch, or bitubercidate 



posteriorly ; the postscutellum with 



two teeth or spines in the middle 



posteriorly ; the space at the base of 



the median segment finely punctured, 



the basal four abdominal segments 



with transverse impressed lines across 



the middle. Black, the head and thorax 



-p- 1,.-, A' • IT *■■ t 9 with a white somewhat griseous thin 

 Fiff. 142. — vtomia elhotii, A . ?. , ,i i -ii i i-.. • 



pubescence,thelegs with pale guttering 



dense pubescence ; the teeth on the postscutellum dark chestnut- 

 brown; the basal four abdominal segments with briglit emerald- 

 green transverse fasciae on their apical margins ; \nngs hyaline, 

 slightly fuscescent along their apical margins. 



(S similar; the tubercles at the lateral angles of the seutellum 

 and the medial spines on the postscutelhnn more prominent ; the 

 posterior femora greatly swollen, the tibite flattened, the apex on 

 the inner side produced into a blunt testaceous ])rocess. 



Hah. The plains of India generally ; Burma, Tenasserim. 

 ?. Lenrjth 11-12; exp. 22-23 mm. (S slightly smaller. 



790. Nomia westwoodii, Gribodo, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 1894, p. 128; 



iJall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 170. 

 Nomia simillima, >S'm?YA, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 44, djpl- iij 

 fig. 4 {7iec Smith, Jour. Linn. Sue. 1803, p. 40). 

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