NOMIA. 



459 



Hah. Tenasserim. ?. Lenfjth 9-10; e.vp. 19-20 mm. 6- 

 Length 8 ; exp. 17 mm. 

 A very distinct species. 



812. Nomia terminata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 56, S ', -D«/A 

 Ton: Cat. x, p. 170. 



2 . The head, thorax, the basal half or two-thirds of abdominal 



segments 1-5 and the whole 

 of the 6th segment above 

 very minutely and densely 

 punctured, the punctures at 

 the base of the scutellum 

 coarser and more sparse ; the 

 clypeus bi-oad, convex, some- 

 what roundly truncate an- 

 teriorly, with a slight but 

 distinguishable medial verti- 

 cal carina ; a narrow furrow 

 along the baso of the median 

 ¥ig. UQ.—Komia ternwiata, c?. |. segment longitudinally striate. 



Dark castaneous brown ; the 

 clvpeus and sides of the face, the sides of the thorax and of the 

 median segment, the sides of the scutellum, the postscutellum, the 

 legs, the base and sides above and the ventral segments of the 

 abdomen with glistening fulvous golden pubescence, very dense 

 and shining on the legs and on the abdomen beneath, the apical 

 three segments above with a thin covering of soft fuscous black 

 hairs ; wings flavo-hyaline, fore wing with a fuscous cloud at apex, 

 nervures and tegulas testaceous. 



6 similar, narrower in form ; the scutellum tuberculate at its 

 lateral angles ; posterior tibiae strongly curved, flattened and broad 

 inwardly at apex.* 



Hab. Sikhim; Burma; Tenasserim. $ d- Length 12-13; 

 exp. 26 mm. 



813. Nomia fuscipennis, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 57, $ . 



2 . Head above and thorax moderately, finely, and closely, 2nd 

 and following abdominal segments more finely punctured ; clypeus 

 very coarsely but superficially rugose-punctate, its anterior margin 

 transverse ; median segment vertical, rounded posteriorly, the 

 middle slightlv flat, a deep groove along the base, above longitu- 

 dinally rugose; the basal abdominal segment entirely and the 

 apical margins of segments 2-4 broadly smooth, itnpunctate, 

 shining. Black, with a deep castaneous hue in certain lights ; the 

 flagellum of the antennae at apex beneath and the tibiae obscurely 

 f ulvo-piceous ; the head in front and beneath, the sides of the 



*K huddha, Westw. (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 209, \A. iv, fig. 1 J), of 

 which the liabitat is given as " India oriontalis," should, 1 think, be deleted 

 from the Indian list : it is, 1 believe, African. 



