42 Mr. F. Smith’s descriptions of new species 
Tribe ANTHOPHILA. 
ANDRENID®. 
Nomia curvipes. (PI. I. fig. 8.) 
Andrena curvipes, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 310, é. 
Megilla curvipes, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 330, ¢. 
Nomia curvipes, Oliv. Encycl. Méth. viii. 377, 4. 
Female.—Length 43 lines. Black: antenne and legs 
rufo-fulvous, abdomen with greenish-yellow fasciz. Head: 
the antennze more or less rufo-piceous above; the face with 
bright fulvous pubescence, with a golden tinge; the man- 
dibles ferruginous, rufo-piceous at their apex. Thorax 
clothed above with fulvous pubescence; the legs rufo- 
fulvous; the coxz, trochanters and posterior femora rufo- 
piceous; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures and tegule 
rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: the apical margins of the 
first four segments greenish-yellow, the two apical fasciz 
widest. 
The male closely resembles the female, but has an addi- 
tional fascia on the abdomen, all are frequently yellow, as 
described by Fabricius, but in some examples the fasciz 
are tinged with green; the scape ef the antenne is yellow 
in front; the posterior femora, which are incrassate, are 
rufo-piceous, with their apical half yellow, as are also the 
tibie and tarsi, the tibiz having a rufo-piceous stain near 
their base. 
Hab.—India, Nuddea, Punjaub. 
This is certainly, I think, the Andrena curvipes of 
Fabricius, but I am doubtful of its being the Kucera 
erassipes of that author, who describes the pubescence of 
the head and thorax as “ cinereo-hirta.” 
*Nomia oxybeloides. (PI. I. figs. 6 3, 6 a.) 
Female.—Length 3 lines. Black; the pubescence 
silvery-white, the tegule large and of a reddish-yellow. 
Head closely punctured and shining, the face and cheeks 
with white pubescence; the flagellum of the antenne more 
or less brightly fulvous beneath. Thorax shining, strongly 
and not very closely punctured ; a transverse line of dense 
white short pubescence at the anterior and _ posterior 
margins of the mesothorax; the post-scutellum covered 
