454 APIDJE. 



Var. The red on tbe basal two segments reduced to transverse 

 elongate marks in the middle of the segments or in some specimens 

 covering the whole of the two segments. 



Hah. China (Smith) ; Eangoon, Burma ; Tenasserim. ^.Leyifjth 

 8-5-9 ; e.vp. 17 mm. 



800. Nomia pilipes, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 56, 5 ; Dall. 

 l\m\ Cat. X, p. 169. 



2 . Head and thorax densely pubescent, closely punctured 

 under the pubescence; abdomen slightly shining, with a few 

 scattered punctures at the bases of the segments ; clypeus slightly 

 rounded anteriorly, nearly transverse ; median segment truncate, 

 pubescent posteriorly, on the sides bare, in the middle, which is 

 smooth, almost impunctate, the space at base concave and very 

 coarsely punctured; abdomen broad, convex. Black, the basal 

 two abdominal segments and basal two-thirds of tbe 3rd pale red ; 

 the antenntB beneath and the legs under the pubescence dull 

 ferruginous brown ; the head, the sides of the thorax and of the 

 inedian segment, the legs, and broad transverse bands on the 

 apical margins of abdominal segments 1-5 with glittering silvery- 

 white pubescence, very long and full on the legs, forming a long 

 scopa on each posterior femur; mesonotum, scutellum, and post- 

 scutellum covered wirh dense golden-yellow pile ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Hab. Northern India (SmitJi). $ . Length 10 ; exp. 19 mm. 



801. Nomia antennata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 46, $ ,5, 

 pi. i, figs. 9, 9 a ; Dall. Tor. Cat. x, p. 163, 

 ? Nomia sykesiana, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 211, pi. iv, 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen very minutely and closely 



punctured ; clypeus subtriangular, transverse anteriorly ; median 



segment short, rounded at the sides, truncate posteriorly, the 



narrow transverse groove along its base 



longitudinally striate ; the apical margins of 



the basal four abdominal segments broadly 



subdepressed and pubescent. Black ; the 



face in front and the postscutellum densely 



and the transverse marginal bands on the 



basal four abdominal segments less thickly 



covered with pale yellow pubescence, having 



a golden lustre in certain lights ; the 



thorax anteriorly above covered with a very 



short fulvous-red, and the sides and legs 



,j . ,^" / , 2 with pale somewhat longer pubescence ; 



the 5th abdominal segment with black and 



the pygidium with short yellow pubescence ; wings flavo-hyaline, 



their apical margins broadly dark fuscous. 



