452 APiD^. 



ecatellum densely pubescent, the sides and apex of the median 

 segment and the legs covered with fulvous pubescence ; the abdo- 

 men obscurely chalybeous, the apical margins of segments 1-4 

 above narrowly greenish blue ; wiugs subhyaline with a fulvous 

 tint. 



c? similar ; the legs black, covered with pale glittering pubes- 

 cence, the posterior femora swollen, the posterior tibioc dilated, 

 subtriangular ; the oth abdominal segment with a greenish-blue 

 transverse fascia. 



Hah. Burma ; Tenasserim ; Sumatra {Dr. Martin) ; Celebes. 

 $ . Length 11-12 ; exp. 20-22 mm. S • Length 11 ; exjp. 22 mm. 



795. Nomia iridescens. (PI. Ill, fig. 9.) 



Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. n, 1858, p. 43, $ ; Dall. Torr. Cat. x, 



p. 167. 

 $ . Head, thorax, and abdomen very minutely and densely 

 punctured ; clypeus convex, with coarser punctures, and a medial 

 sharp vertical carina, its anterior margin transverse ; mesonotum 

 broad, slightly convex, and in certain lights showing several fine 

 abbreviated longitudinally-impressed parallel lines on the disc ; 

 enclosed space at base of median segment longitudinally rugose. 

 Black, the head and thorax opaque ; the abdomen shining, iridescent 

 in certain lights, segments 2-4 with transverse bright green or blue 

 fascise on their apical margins, the pubescence on the head and 

 thorax and legs griseous with a fulvoue tint, most dense on the 

 sides of the face, the cheeks, and the sides of the median segment ; 

 wings hyahne and iridescent, nervures and tegul?e testaceous. 



cT similar ; the pubescence on the face more dense, the legs 

 longer with more sparse pubescence, the posterior femora and tibiae 

 only slightly swollen, abdominal segments 2-5 with bright green 

 or blue fascise ; the whole abdomen more cylindrical, not so broad 

 as in the female. 



Hab. Burma ; Tenasserim ; Singapore. $ c? • Length 8-10 ; 

 exp. 17-20 mm. 



796. Nomia albofasciata. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 67, 2 ; 



Dall. Torr. Cat. x, p. 16:3. 



2 . Head and the mesonotum densely and finely, abdomen more 

 minutely punctured ; scutellum large, prominent, shining, nearly 

 im punctate; median segment covered with a short, somewhat fine 

 pubescence, the space at base concave and coarsely longitudinally 

 ruo'ose. Black ; the face, the cheeks, the postscutelluui, and median 

 segment covered with white pubescence, dense only on the post- 

 scutellum ; the legs rufo-piceous, all the tarsi and the posterior tibiae 

 on the inside ferruginous with pale glittering pubescence ; abdomen 

 shining, the apical margins of the basal four segments narrowly 

 white ; the flagellum of each antenna, except the basal two joints, 

 fulvo-testaceous ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and 

 tegulae testaceous. 



Hab. Burma; Tenasserim; Java. $. Length 8-10; exi). 16- 

 17 mm. d unknown. 



