KOMI A. 451 



yellow ; apical halves of the femora, the tibite, and tarsi yellow, 

 the coxfp, trochanters, and base of the femora black. 



Hah. The Punjab ; Bengal; Upper Burma. $ J. Length 11- 

 12 ; exp. 22 mm.* 



793. Nomia thoracica, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 45, $ j, pi. i, 

 fig. 10; DalL Ton: Cat. x, p. 170. 



2 • Head, thorax, and legs densely pubescent ; median segment 

 posteriorly bare, and as well as the abdomen very closely and 

 finely punctured ; clypeus convex, nearly transverse anteriorly ; 

 median segment vertical, the groove along base above longitudinally 

 rugose. Black, the legs underneath the pubescence fuscous, abdo- 

 men with the apical margins of the basal four segments narrowly 

 white ; the pubescence on the head somewhat thin and cinereous, 

 on the mesonotum and scutellum dense, short, and rich rufo- 

 fulvous, on the postscutellum, sides of the thorax, and legs pale 



Fig. 143. — Nomia thoracica, 2 ■ I- Fig. 144. — Nomia thoracica, (S . i- 



and glittering, on the abdomen much sparser and black ; wings 

 hyaline with a slight yellow tint, nervures and tegulae testaceous 

 brown. 



cJ similar ; the legs black, only thinly pubescent, each of the 

 posterior coxae with a small tubercle, the posterior femora and 

 tibiae greatly swollen, the apices of the latter whitish and triangu- 

 larly produced beneath ; abdomen as in the $ , but with no white 

 fascia on the apical margin of the 1st segment. 



Hah. Barrackpore ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; China. $ d . Length 

 11-13; exp. 22-25 mm. 



79-4. Nomia formosa, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1859, p. 5, $ J ; DalL 

 Torr. Cat. x, p. 167. 



$ . Head and thorax minutely and densely, abdomen more 

 lightly and sparsely punctured ; clypeus slightly convex and raised, 

 transverse anteriorly, with a medial longitudinal carina ; median 

 segment opaque, truncate posteriorly, with an obscure slight medial 

 carina, space at base very slight and narrow, closely and finely 

 punctured ; abdomen broadly oval. Black, the ajitenns and legs 

 piceous, the head and face with thin white pubescence ; a line on 

 the pronotum, the tubercles, the sides of the thorax, and the post- 



* Nomia strigata, Fabr., given by that author as from India, is a Javan 

 species, aud N. indica, Lepel., is probably identical with it. 



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