458 AviD^. 



*809. Nomia vincta, Walker, A.M.N. H. (3) v, 1800, p. 305, $ ; 

 Dull. Torr. Cat. x, p. 170. 



" 2 • Black, dull, broad, thick, very closely and minutely punc- 

 tured, with cinereous pubescence. Mouth testaceous, black at the 

 base ; antennae subclavate, as long as the head ; abdomen ellipti- 

 cal, shining, very finely punctured, a little longer and broader 

 than the thorax, with three bands of cinereous tomentum ; tarsi 

 pale beneath ; wings cinereous, veins and stigma black, third 

 cubital areolet much less than twice the length of the second. 



"Length of the body 3i- lines (= about 8 mm.), of the wings 

 6 lines (= about 13 mm.).'' 



Hah. Ceylon. Unknown to me. Possibly a Halictus. 



810. Nomia SCUtellata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 45, § ; Dall. 



Torr. Cat. x, p. 169. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely, densely, but lightly 

 punctured ; clypeus somewhat produced, arched anteriorly ; 

 median segment rounded posteriorly, the middle narrowly trun- 

 cate, the space at base concave and transversely finely striate; 

 abdomen with the margins of the segments subdepressed. Black ; 

 the clypeus and front, the cheeks, sides of the thorax, legs, and 

 transverse broad bands on the posterior margins of abdominal 

 segments 1-5 with cinereous pubescence, inclining to yellowish on 

 the clypeus and front, and fulvous about the base of the antennae ; 

 the thorax above and base of abdomen with rufo-fulvous 

 pubescence, dense on the scutellum and postscutellum ; wings 

 hyaline, nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Hub. Calcutta ; Burma. $ . Length 7-8 ; e^jy. 14-16 mm. 

 c? unknown. 



811. Nomia aurata, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax somewhat coarsely and closely, abdomen 

 more minutely and very densely punctured ; clypeus not carinate, 

 flat, transverse anteriorly ; median segment concavo-truncate pos- 

 teriorly, the space at base finely reticulate. Black ; the flagellum of 

 the antennae at apex beneath, the legs, and the apical margins broadly 

 of the ventral abdominal segments rufo-testaceous ; the clypeus, 

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

 postscutellum, and the apical margins narrowly of abdominal 

 segments 2-4 covered with cinereous pubescence ; the legs with 

 pale glittering pubescence ; wings hyaline and iridescent. 



cJ similar, smaller ; the clypeus and front with rich golden 

 pubescence, the basal three ventral segments pale testaceous red ; 

 the posterior femora and tibiae swollen, the inner apical angle of 

 the latter produced into a claw-like process ; the legs black, the 

 anterior tarsi, the basal and apical joints of the intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi, and the produced claw- like process at apex of the 

 posterior tibiae pale testaceous ; the apical margin of the 1st 

 abdominal segment constricted, the following four segments with 

 a narrow transverse white fascia at apex. 



